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I don't know anything about Epic Games, but as a huge fan of Bandcamp, this feels like a bit of a drag. There's something about Bandcamp that seems exactly right. It's an open, fai…

"Fight with" can mean "fight for" or "fight against", which do you mean?

That makes no sense. If Russia had an effective way to conduct its business without SWIFT in the event of sanctions, it would also have a way to conduct its business outside of SWI…

> ...a Soviet guy decided it was best not to send missiles back In that case the judgment was whether the telemetry was reliable enough to justify launching a retaliatory strike, w…

> But it's only valid for US citizens. The US Constitution is applicable to anyone within the jurisdiction of the US, regardless of citizenship or immigration status (including und…

Good. There was something absurd about having to accept id.me's terms-of-service, which involved "deals, discounts, cash back rebates and employment and educational opportunities",…

Didn't think of that. Just saw my iPhone rocket down from 50% to 10% one time too many and instantly ordered the new Android phone.

I just tried saying "OK google" to my phone and it did not summon the assistant. (Hooray!) I have the generic "Google" app disabled, which I think is the thing that listens on the …

The lack of a headphone jack was one of the reasons I was reluctant to get a new iPhone.

It's strange that it has to be this way though. I just retired my iPhone 6s because the battery didn't last very long anymore. I don't really need anything but text/phone/email so …

After-hours on-call is a thing that needs to be destroyed. A company that is sufficiently large that the CEO doesn't get woken up for emergencies needs to have shifts in other time…

If you're being attacked with a wrench, wouldn't you want to avoid deniable encryption? If there's no way to 100% establish that all the money has been extracted, an attacker might…

What does it do that can't be accomplished with something the size of a remote controlled car?

"To help you fool yourself" seems like a euphemism for "to fool you". It's gotta be tough to go from "scant knowledge of S3" to genuine knowledge if the documentation is doing this…

Writing out the digits gives a more visceral impression of the difference in weight, from roughly one, to a six-digit number, to a nine-digit number.

It seems somewhat strange that a company selling a service to EU customers might be in trouble for using Google Fonts in a jurisdiction (e.g. Germany) where there are ways to ident…

> The issue is if a person visits a resource from a company in the EU Does it have to be a company in the EU? I thought the GDPR covered any website an EU citizen, resident, or vis…