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Google doesn't innovate? The software on the new Pixel 3 is nothing short of amazing from spam call answering to night mode photography. And it is all getting backported to earlier…

There's a Youtube channel called something like 'AI Channel' that has relevant talks. LeCun did a big one a few months ago. Hinton has had at least one Google Talk.

A ton. I was involved in the successful opposition against a wind farm project in Canada that was proposed for just north of a major internationally protected migratory bird habita…

Destroying a virgin desert ecosystem with an industrial installation is not little environmental impact.

These huge renewable projects do have major ecological impact, why lie about it? Due to low power generation density they take up a lot of space compared to fossil fuel/nuclear pla…

No, it's not. Downvotes are not for opinions you disagree with.

For sure, you may have very well got a good mattress at a good price. However, things you did like price-matching don't work in mattress-land because all the companies release the …

Wirecutter's mattress reviews specify sleeping style.

I went with Leesa, same reasons for going online, also has worked well for me.

Online mattresses became popular because of the multi-naming, multi-branded, high-margin existing world of mattress sales which was, and is, way scummier than online mattress sales…

This is a many-times repost but still a good read. I've gotten to the point where I only trust Wirecutter/Consumer Reports reviews of anything.

Ha ha ha, yes, this shows the usual intellectual level of systemd bashing. launchd was the direct inspiration for systemd.

How did 'skilled' programmers recover when a daemon crashed in Sys5 init-based systems? The init script ends after startup so you are stuck with a third party monitoring service th…

Yes, systemd makes being an application developer on Linux so much easier. You can declaratively control state of your daemons, recover from crashes, add process limits, control st…

Ars is probably the best tech site on the web.

Large parts of the U.S., Japan and Canada all have good nuclear. Gates' has always been about pushing research in the area to get better nuclear, which he outlines clearly in this …

Roobios is truly awful.

I agree. Tipping is now approaching 20-25% in my Canadian city, it's adding on so much cost to going out. It's about time to rationalize this space and get some better models.

This was discussed here extensively a few months ago.

I like business news in general. You make money in finance by being right and people in the industry will gravitate towards accurate sources by definition. In general, business new…

This is all covered in the article!!!

I'm a NBA fan, it's been funny to see Steve Ballmer portrayed as a business titan using his know-how to turn around the Clippers rather than as a college buddy of Bill Gates who mi…

The U.S. feeds not only itself but a huge chunk of the world. Agricultural innovations primarily coming from the United States (but also Canada and other industrialized countries) …