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The shorted headline is ambiguously misleading. I first interpreted it as them essentially saying "We need to be punished".

I also have the sidebars constantly reappearing, and I don't have cookies disabled. It's really annoying.

It would take the typical English speaker many years of dedicated study to learn Mandarin Chinese to a level of fluency required to take advantage of any token savings. "Caveman sp…

If they started using that power to change what time they started every few months, you don't think that would cause logistical problems?

> leadership at Jellyfin decided to throw the blanket after a burning themselves out for free. What does this mean?

In a sense, they do exactly that! But since there are only two single-digit numbers in binary, it makes for a pretty short table.

Sign of the times, I'm sad to say. The Internet is just chock full of them these days. It's gotten to the point where most of the articles on the NYTimes frontpage don't even menti…

"If you haven't used your emergency go-bag in over a year, why do you want to use it now"? "If you haven't used your passport in over a year, why do you want to use it now"? "If yo…

It's confirmed in the DVD commentary. The stunt pilot had to do it at a high enough speed that it would "outrun" the rotor wash.

I don't follow your argument. Why would those facts make PSAs effective at changing consumer shopping habits? If my response sounded like a non-sequiter to you, well, yours sounded…

And doorbell footage of the crash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR_Y_yf84m8 Holy shit, it looks like it was going at full highway speeds (at least) in a residential neighborhood…

What does it mean for the ghosts to be "unable" to reverse direction? Isn't that just another way of saying that the original ghost AI was programmed to never choose to do so? Ther…

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What makes an assessment "accurate"? If there was an objective answer to that question that could be used to adjudicate the rule, then the process wouldn't be needed in the first p…

Are they not going to tell us which company's self-driving tech was installed on the bus? That seems like very relevant info.

There are some fun ideas here, but also some rough edges. Using today's puzzle (steak->boring, which I have not solved yet) as an example: -It's not clear to me whether the game is…

Here's another hypothetical. Imagine you just became one of the world's most famous people overnight. The entire media apparatus, and a team of wikipedia editors, were racing to fi…

Not to defend the FBI here, but I don't see anywhere where they described it as a leak. In fact, they're officially denying that any such investigation is taking place. It's kind o…

Not that surprising if the thing that failed was the thing that notices whether or not you put something in the trunk in the first place. Unless it does that routine at the end of …

Scenario: A company's costs increased because of both the tarriff and some other factors (perhaps a supplier increased their prices, and the staff unionized and negotiated a salary…

Before clicking on this link, I hopped over to the Wikipedia page and read the intro section to get some quick context. Turns out that was unnecessary because this "article" is lit…

The Bronx isn't "anywhere else", it's a region of New York City (one of the five boroughs), just like Manhattan is.

You're missing the point. I only use an Android because it lets me install whatever software I want. If that's no longer an option, then I'll pick based on other criteria, and then…

If only we had just slightly increased the length of each day so that the year divided perfectly into 365 days. Then it would be an even better analogy.

I remember many years ago (maybe around 2014?) reading about a smallish European country that implemented this sort of thing really well. There was nothing but glowing praise for i…