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That's great until your device is weaponised against others (see: open HTTP proxies, open DNS resolvers, open SMTP servers, several billion IoT devices, and countless other example…

..."on Mars in a self-driving Tesla."

I think there's also the "roll up a whole network at once" approach they prefer to take for things like this - hence nothing will happen for months/years whilst investigations happ…

> Google is able to have such an up to date place database because it relies on a large quantity of crowdsourced submissions Google denied our address existed[0] for years (which c…

> I have never seen them randomly arresting someone for no reason. Try the Instagram Reels explore feed. I see at least one US cop bodycam a week where they are blatantly abusing t…

Obligatory posting of Tantacrul's hilariously vicious kicking of Sibelius[0] "This really is one of the great examples of breaking all UI design principles and every UX design prin…

cf Vimes' theory of boots[0] which is basically the same point. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

Since AFC have now joined them[0][1], FIFA no longer have the votes for this to pass. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ce345l6kg6ro - "Uefa - the body that governs…

> It seems like FIFA has a culture of corruption I think any large multi-national organisation that deals with handing out events that generate vast sums of money inevitably succum…

If carved stone phalluses count, Pompeii has loads of those[0] which would knock the date back a few hundred years. [0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/stone-phalluses-of-pompe…

IIRC it was something like "hexagrams" which printed the I Ching hexagrams[0] [0] https://www.iching-online.com/hexagrams/

> That does not seem to stop the UK from wanting more surveillance. UK politicians, perhaps. I'm not sure the UK public is entirely behind them. > Just bombard people with bad news…

Wikipedia[0] does have it as the SM83 [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance - "Manufactured by the Sharp Corporation, the SoC contains two processors: the ARM7TDMI run…

I've used Seconds Pro[0] for this before - comes with a bunch of presets which were handy at the time but also has wide flexibility to create your own (a continuous 1 minute repeat…

> I've not seen any serious argument or evidence that Trump has experienced a cognitive decline I don't know what to tell you if you can't see it from literally every public appear…

Not really, all three of them are sociological problems. And, at least for the first and last, we could already have mostly solved them but for the intransigent insanity of various…

I think people were probably offended by the lack of such covers relating to Trump's diminished mental acuity when it was on display for all to see in the brief period of 2015-pres…

> You know a gun or a bomb is dangerous, so you'll probably be careful with it. The statistics on people killed/injured by their kids accidentally discharging firearms in the US di…

Instagram does something similar - they have random ads in HDR which iOS will display at obnoxious brightness. Just what you want as you scroll by trying to find someone you actual…

Not to mention that there's a bunch of new anti-timewasting edicts that have come in for the World Cup and will eventually filter down to the various regional associations for impl…

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> There's a rope around the field, if the ball goes over it without hitting the ground (like a home run) it counts for 6. On the larger grounds, it tends to be a decently-sized foa…

> And there is nothing wrong with vulgarization My comment wasn't about vulgarisation - it was about Freakonomics' loose approach to rigour and consequent debunking of, IIRC, most …

> If the nation of immigrants is so great, why are so many people protecting themselves with guns I think you'll find that's a particularly American problem - the UK, for example, …