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Only a casual user of Linux desktop computing but my experience with ui stability seems to have gotten much worse after switching to Wayland.

I went and enjoyed it a lot. The variety of the exhibitions was great (personally I loved the watercolor pen plotter) and the age of the exhibitors - both very young and old, was d…

Just replaced a 17 year old Brother with a new one. Seems to work just as well, although I've always been using first party cartridges.

I believe Google explicitly stated that they used data collected from Ingress (arguably a predecessor to Pokemon Go) at the time. It's the reason Niantic was founded. It's hard to …

Sounds like a great opportunity for a startup to fix! In the country I live, there is a standard AML/KYC service that allows customers (banks, utilities) to easily perform ID verif…

It's possible it's fake, but you can type in the exact same prompt into Gemini and get very similar results. 2/3 generated drafts include a "safety" disclaimer about botulism, but …

What's interesting is thinking about what (if any) parallels of "PFOS" exist in the tech industry - collective delusions of products that aren't harmful. I would vote for most soci…

The article does a good job of addressing the nuance, but the headline and most attention grabbing parts of it don't. Most of the new housing built may have been illegal under prev…

Given that the rocket blew up more or less at launch, it should be full of unspent fuel. How does one put out that fire? I'm guessing there's a lot of energy stored there, so letti…

I would disagree. Mathematicians certainly don't need to visualize everything but "intuition" is a commonly used phrase which is a notion of understanding. Although math merely req…

The contents of the link are so far from what you describe them as it's hard to believe that you're arguing in good faith. Put another way, what is the government even bringing to …

Other than the practical reality of it being expensive to construct nuclear facilities (which may or may not be solvable), what is speaking against building new ones?

As someone who once had an NYT subscription (no longer) and now has an Economist subscription, I totally agree with the sentiment. The Economist absolutely has an angle, but it com…

The reasoning is correct but the conclusion is backwards IMO. You should "adjust for inflation" (using other measures for inflation) to examine the current price of gold. If gold i…

For me, the operative part of the comment is > To keep it simple, consider starting by reporting SMSes. > For robocalls, expect that many robocall CIDs are spoofed I pretty much on…

Would you also agree that if NFL teams were tax exempt, it wouldn't matter anyways? I agree that the dollar impact of lost taxes on society is negligible, but the blatant unfairnes…

Is public housing the main driver of lower housing prices in comparable economies? I would have guessed that the HUD being unable to build more housing isn't helping us, but isn't …

Are there any factual assertions that you disagree with in the piece? Otherwise this seems to be more anti-Binance than crypto itself (although the author's viewpoint on crypto is …

Neat fact! I guess that's basically Martingales for life expectancy?

> it varies considerably by income, location, and whether you do drugs It's not even that complicated - if you've lived to age 54, you've already lived long enough to not die for t…

This paper seems to not have controlled for vehicle weight, which is the most obvious thing I could possibly think of being a confounding variable (specifically, total force applie…

It shocks me that this article could be written without mentioning the phrase "price elasticity" a single time (a word I learned in a class literally numbered "econ 101").

I think a meta point that is interesting here is that nobody could be more motivated to lobby for DMCA changes than large platforms like Google. Wrongfully targeted victims take ou…

I think you could argue something like "Amazon is aware that it's ads broadly promote counterfeits but leave them up"

One thing you might not have considered is that some notion of "dissatisfaction w/ job" would increase both the likelihood of you wanting to join a union and your employer wanting …