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I'm not convinced nationality or accents have much to do with it, the overwhelming majority of American English speakers I know also can't use voice tools on their phones. My Ameri…

The only way you'd ever get users to disable their ad blockers on your website would be injecting them with a fast-acting poison and publishing directions to the antidote. If a reg…

>America has also had public execution pretty much since day one. Hanging was our preferred method before the electric chair, and then lethal injection. We make sure that both the …

LIBOR doesn't demonstrate that banks rely on trust. None of the involved banks or brokers trusted that anyone else was actually being honest about LIBOR submissions or predictions.…

>What I think is the same philosophically though, is ceding the power over fundamental activities/interactions for functionality. I'm not sure what this means. If you're referring …

Congratulations, you've nailed down the Culture's biggest quandary in one sentence. The best answer I can give you is "good question." The best answer Banks could give you is sprea…

That's not really what he meant by "exponentially more powerful." The Culture is a helpful example, because it's a society administrated by ludicrously intelligent machines called …

Did movie piracy go anywhere?

>They have Windows, OSX, and Linux apps. That's sort of a crucial distinction. You have to run the application, but pretty much everybody has something that can run it. That's very…

>They have Windows, OSX, and Linux apps. That's sort of a crucial distinction. You have to run the application, but pretty much everybody has something that can run it. That's very…

>They have Windows, OSX, and Linux apps. That's sort of a crucial distinction. You have to run the application, but pretty much everybody has something that can run it. That's very…