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DHS has the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency. Their job is to help organizations in the US with protecting public services and physical infrastructure. They are parti…

States may dangle the tax carrots, but localities could be the ones paying for road and utility improvements. The costs for that could be much less than projected gains in tax reve…

I find that I care more when copyright violations cause actual harm to the copyright owner. Let's say there's an American kid who can't speak Japanese but wants to keep up with a w…

I vaguely remember a saying I read here once: A tech lover has a home full of smart appliances and systems. A tech expert has a computer, a modem, a printer, and a revolver lying n…

>And some people keep them as pets. I can personally vouch for them being great pets. They're active during the day, hunt prey, don't need much food or water, and tend to "hide" in…

Math is a terrible example. Euclid's "Elements" was a core book in Western math education for millennia, and it uses drawn geometric proofs. The proofs are then described in Greek,…

>I have no idea how this stuff should be regulated. That's why we have a system where representatives of districts do research, debate, and hash out those details while the public …

My wife and I set up sleep shifts during the first two months. I would sleep from 9 PM to 3 AM, then we'd spend an hour all together, then she'd sleep from 4 AM to 10 AM. During a …

I'm glad to hear the teenage drummer I used to see when googling myself has gone pro. He's doing pretty well, too, if these models can be trusted.

>If it's to dangerous to make public, it's too dangerous to collect, and people should be aware of exactly what it is. While this may be a reasonable stance in theory, there are ma…

Take the National Basketball Players Association as an example. They represent NBA players and collectively bargained for a minimum wage, benefits, and processes to address grievan…

They joined Republicans in limiting presidential power after Watergate. Granted, these limitations usually come after gross abuses. But these are gross abuses, and there's no reaso…

I wouldn't use the COVID economy to understand anything except "What happens to an economy during a pandemic?" People had more money, but there was a lot less to spend on for a whi…

>Why would they ever fix the system. Some number of people will just pay it and those people are pure profit. Heck, fixing the system costs money. The system is run by employees of…

I use ad blockers on my personal computer and phone to avoid tracking. My work computer doesn't have a blocker, but I only visit "professional" sites and major blog aggregators on …

No need to invoke a hypothetical water example, just look to how Nestlé pushed baby formula in developing countries¹: >For example, IBFAN claims that Nestlé distributes free formul…

100 years ago, horror stories featured wizard-like scientists using electricity to perform magic. A few decades after that, it was nuclear fission. Then quantum mechanics decades a…

>Retroactive amendments change the legal effect of provisions for a past period — an amendment published today can declare that it applies from last year. This retroactively alters…

Did both the president and vice president attend past dinners? I thought protocol was to rarely have them in the same location, in case of something like this.

A lot of Ukiyo-e wood prints have small details that mean a lot to locals. I enjoy learning about them on the NHK's English channel. In this case, the boats are fast (each has a bu…

I (or really, my parents) were burned by something like this recently. They bought my kid an FAO Schwarz marble run tower for Christmas. It's made of terrible plastic, with rough s…

> Sure it serves their immediate purposes but what are the long term consequences of this? Do these people realize that every time they sell a piece of their soul to increase their…

Gift link to NY Times article by the authors of the act: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/opinion/section-702-surve...

People need to be careful about buying into the shorthand lingo with LLMs. They do not learn like we do. At the lowest level, they predict which tokens follow a body of tokens. Thi…