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It's a fine idea if good candidates for conversion can be found, but shouldn't they fix up their dilapidated public transit system before inviting more density into their urban cor…

Simple: capex and economies of scale. Suppose that I have an idea for a widget which market research indicates could sell for $20/, but probably not $50/. I can hit the $50/ target…

In the words of John Oliver's character on Community , "It's just that the average person has a much harder time saying 'booyah' to moral relativism."

Is it? A vehicle lasts for decades. $10/mo * 20 years = $2400. That's almost an extra 5% you get over the purchase price, nicely hidden away at the time of sale. You also self-sele…

Not surprising that jobs which mostly involve seeing and helping other people score highly. Nor is it surprising that people who sit in front of screens dealing with petty workplac…

Abrahamic religions in general - Jesus was also not a fan. >Jesus went into the temple courtyard and threw out everyone who was buying and selling there. He overturned the moneycha…

"Digital electronics" communicate using discrete values, 1s and 0s. "Analog electronics" communicate using voltage/current/temperature/etc levels. One of the simplest examples is a…

Tough to say, information about the systems is restricted and hard to come by. I'm pretty sure they have hooks into audio systems for wireless emergency alerts, but could be wrong.…

They may have access to backdoors in the baseband firmwares. The baseband is an opaque binary blob that operates outside of the phone's main OS, and its contents are usually consid…

Landscaping materials? You can get things like sand and mulch for like $30/ton. You just have to provide your own transportation.

You'd think they would at least throw in an exponential backoff. Here, I'll help. to = 2; while (!request(timeout=to)) { to *= 2; } I'm available for a 6-week contract. $1M plus a …

A good real estate agent can provide a lot of value, especially if you're a first-time buyer. * They've seen a lot of houses, and know what to look out for even before you commit t…

It feels like a common paradox. Why should lawyers discipline lawyers? Why should cops discipline cops? Why should lobbyists advise legislators? Why should banks help to shape fina…

It would be neat to have a fundamental "money" primitive alongside int, float, string, etc. It might not be simple to implement, though. Off the top of my head, * Can you confident…

Just wait until you can't see a restaurant's menu, in-flight announcements, traffic advisories, etc. The pandemic opened the door to making a piece of technology a mandatory requir…

Not usually, no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea You can definitely be convicted of one, though!