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That would be giving legal advice, which Google (or any company) would avoid at all costs.

Correlation does not imply causation...

It isn't just "can't put them out", grain dust is explosive. Grain elevators are time bombs.

Wow, that's a surprisingly fair and neutral write up, really good work!

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> I think the ultimate problem is Google doesn't pay anyone They pay the OEM, don't they?

> How does blockchain promote privacy? There are no privacy leaks when everything is public :)

It is a blog post...

Exactly! Free market != laissez faire. But a market where exorbitant costs of regulation drive up the minimum efficient scale to the point that no new entrants are possible is also…

Nope. It doesn't in any way. A free market is one where prices are set based on supply and demand without restrictions on competition due to monopolistic powers, market reserve reg…

> Strong competition would mean dozens to hundreds of sustainable entrants. Absolutely not, there is such a thing as minimum efficient scale. Some markets might only have room for …

> Consider, for example, saying, "OK, Google, show me my last messages," during a conference call, in which Google will also read the messages aloud. Doesn't work, it doesn't recog…

Essentially, the flying buttresses are designed to hold the weight of the roof pushing outside. Without that weight, there isn't much to prevent the walls from caving in.

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Not a lot in the article: “The pronunciation in the Proto-Indo-European was probably ‘lox,’ and that’s exactly how it is pronounced in modern English,” he says. "was probably" soun…

> At some point there has to be a value in marketing for keeping people happy, right? Not a lot of value in keeping HN people happy. We're too small of a user niche but too big of …

No, on purpose. Musk is reserving "regulatory" as the excuse that will be used when they fail to deliver: "we had everything ready, I swear, but regulators wouldn't let us launch".…

> As far as I understand, it's back to being desert everywhere today. Not entirely. The once massive Mesopotamian Marshes (which were largely drained by Saddam to destroy the local…

You can address that by using Gini index x median income. The result is the same: the US continues to be an outlier with significantly higher inequality than most developed countri…

Another way to look at it is median income x Gini index. Essentially, higher-income countries tend to have lower inequality, but the US is an exception, with significantly higher i…

In the first stage, AJIT has been manufactured in the government-owned Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL), Chandigarh, with a technology that offers the smallest building block of the …

A nitpick: wanderlust doesn't mean in English what it means in German. While in German it still means "a desire to hike", in English it is usually associated with travel, a meaning…

Because that's how the five were described: Cancer center officials have not named any of the five researchers. MD Anderson President Peter Pisters says all are “Asian”; Science ha…

> It's so weird how US mass media refuses to name/identify some offenders but identifies some offenders by their identities. That's not the case here. The identity of the offenders…