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What if the Navy is hiding this technology in plain sight at the patent office?

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10322827B2/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190348597A1/en

A lot of experts think these patents are BS, but I guess there is the possibility that they're not.

My belief is that their shift in attitude is because the cat is out of the bag... we know there is unusual stuff in the sky, so their best defense now is to pretend they don't know what they are, and asking for reports makes it more believable that it's not theirs.

I don't doubt people are skeptical about my opinion, and I don't blame them. But, keep in mind that many of the sightings are from Navy pilots, during planned Navy training missions. Oh, and the Navy has patents on some technologies that would explain some of these UAP sightings (if the technology in the patents works). Here are the patents:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10322827B2/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190348597A1/en

My fridge has been repaired twice, the first time within its first year. Both times, each repair guy said the same thing: Avoid LG and Samsung. Avoid counter depth. I have no idea if that's accurate, so I'm curious if your data dive backs up either of those notes?

If that happens, that would be the most efficient form of regulatory capture yet!

I was thinking the same thing -- I've had to reboot my iPhone a couple of times since installing iOS 18 because it became unresponsive. It's been years since I've had an iPhone do that so this is very unusual.

Any time a police encounter starts, you can at least tap the standby button 5 times. It's not as good as a shutdown, but it will at least disable biometrics so it will require a password to unlock. They can't legally force you to reveal your password.

Ya, I'm guessing these cops don't have iPhones because if they did they would know that iOS is just buggy. I mean, the last time I restarted my iPhone before iOS 18 was when I installed the last iOS 17 patch. Since installing iOS 18 I've had to restart it twice because it stopped responding.

But, assuming the cops are right for a minute, wouldn't you want your phone to reboot so it would be harder for them to brute force it?

I don't think it would hurt their credibility if they're wrong. It's not like they created that idea, they were just pointing out Trump's words and actions.

Yes, that's the one (Samsung only has one 5K monitor). Most reviews I've seen have been pretty positive about it, but it's good to hear a dissenting opinion as well.

I believe the viewing angle problem you're talking about is due to the anti-glare finish. It's a trade off for sure (one that some people would not want). I assume that's why Apple offers their consumer 5K monitor with or without that finish.

Apple also has a Pro 5K monitor. LG also has one older 5K, and those are the only 5K monitors currently on the market.

You may want to look at the Samsung 5K monitor. It can often be had for $700. The sharpness of text is beautiful, especially if you're using a mac since it's optimized at 218ppi to avoid scaling. But, it might be smaller than you want. Apple also makes one that is nearly identical, except for the price.

PS - I have seen Dell go downhill as well. I returned the last Dell laptop I bought. My wife was sitting next to me on the couch and her macbook had full wifi bars while the dell had one bar. I did some research and they were using a pretty cheap wifi controller and maybe also had poor antenna design. I ordered a ThinkPad for the same price and it was great.

An ice cream machine costs less than $3,000. The whole McDonald's costs $1.5m - $2.5m. They could buy a second ice cream machine with 2-3 day's profit.

Same here, I wish I went for 128. That said, I don't think this use case applies to 99.9999% of iMac buyers.

The small cones, you're probably right (once you factor in all of the fixed costs). But, the $5 McFlurry... definitely!

Kind of makes sense, it weeds out all of the people who didn't read the manual.

This works great, thank you.

For others: Settings > Media > Enable Background Audio

They're not that unreliable, but it seems like they're more unreliable than they actually are because they sometimes lie to customers -- it's easier to say it's broken than explain what is actually happening.

You see, demand for ice cream is very weather driven and that means nearly everyone wants ice cream at the same time. But each machine has a throughput limit. So, a lot of the time when they say the machine is broken, it's really just that the demand has exceeded the machine's capacity, and it takes awhile for the machine to freeze the ice cream mixture when it is refilled. If you had a second machine, that's when you switch to the second machine and by the time that one's capacity is reached, then the other machine will be ready to go again.

The machines also do what modern refrigerators do and they run a defrost/heating cycle to prevent ice from building up on the cooling equipment inside. If a defrost cycle happens at the same time as a freeze cycle, it extends the downtime because it then takes longer to freeze the ice cream mixture.

> to storage, frying station or something else that is more useful.

Storage and frying capacity is not at problem at most McDonald's. Two things they do really well is frying and just-in-time delivery.

> by the time you find out the machine is broken, you're already in the store or drive through anyway

A lot of people come with a car full of kids just for ice cream, they go to your competitor when you don't have it. If they didn't want the expense of an extra ice cream machine, they could keep ice cream sandwiches in the freezer and offer those as a substitute when the ice cream machine is locked out in a freeze or defrost cycle.

Agreed, and with these new machines, they should have two of them (for several reasons). I worked there for a couple years in high school and summertime was just order after order of ice cream. The lost profit from the only machine being broken, or during it's downtime to chill the soft serve liquid after a refill, would pay back the investment in one summer, not to mention the customer service improvement.

The ad campaign for resolving this problem writes itself too. It's easily worth it. Worst case scenario, put the second machine where the pizza oven used to be.

> stop "fixing" problems that are not of your concern, let alone "fixing" them for free.

In this case iFixit's business is selling tools and materials to fix things. So, there is an incentive for them to invest in solving the problem.

Some countries have laws that require companies to disclose what they monitor about their employees. That seems fair.

Yep, and there are a bunch of new things coming that will obfuscate private jet travel even more: https://www.popsci.com/technology/tracking-private-jets/

Exactly. They're motivated by reducing dollars per kg of payload. They have their own agenda for a Mars mission, and they'll build a business taking third party gigs to fund their long term mission to get people to Mars.

Ya, it wasn't until my early 40s where a daily drink started to affect me. I never started out that way... had maybe 1-2 drinks/week in my 20s but over time the usage crept up there until 1 drink was a weekday thing (glass of wine with dinner or a cocktail later), maybe 2 drinks on a weekend night. It slowly normalized itself from something special to something routine. Once I noticed the effect it was having I started to dial it back and now I'm back down to 1-2 drinks/week... usually a glass of wine or a cocktail with my wife. I imagine it will continue to dwindle as I lose interest in it.

I don't think Tesla ever used LIDAR and the article confirms they don't think they will need to. I believe they removed ultrasonic sensors though, maybe that's what you're thinking of.

For those of us who are unfamiliar with the building materials and styles of the area, what was different about those blocks that made them more structurally sound?

This is also true in Alabama, California, Louisiana, and Texas. In all of these states, the government has been forced to pick up the slack and offer insurance where none of the private insurance companies will.

Same, my home insurance in the SW is roughly $5000/year and then another $5000/year for wild fire insurance, and another $1000/yr for earthquake insurance... so about $11,000/yr for full home insurance. My home isn't unusually large for the area or anything like that: 4 bedrooms, no basement. We live below our means, so I don't know how most other people afford it.

We need some kind of insurance reform. Insurance works best when there is one extremely large pool of consumers to offset the risk of a catastrophic event in one small area of that pool. The risk pools keep getting smaller as private insurance companies stop offering high risk insurance in markets that suffer from floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and wild fires. Several state governments have been forced to pick up the slack by offering a small pool of high risk (and therefore high cost) insurance to those residents.

I get it, private insurance companies want to make as much profit as possible and those markets are killing their profits. They should have the right to pull out of those markets if they want, but I would propose that if a private insurance companies should not be able to selectively offer different insurance in different risk markets.

So, for example, if State Farm wants the privilege of selling auto insurance to California's 39 million residents, they also have to offer home/fire insurance (nearly all private insurance companies are not writing new home insurance policies in California due to high risk of wild fires, but they do offer other types of insurance). In other words, it should be all or nothing if they want to participant in any geographic market.

If they still don't want to offer it after such a law, that's ok because then the government's insurance pool can pickup the lower risk insurance (car, home, life, umbrella) to help offset the cost of the higher risk fire insurance (in the California example). The same would be true in other states that have single vertical government pools for different natural disasters (Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama).

I'm sure there are better ideas, but this is just one option that comes to mind.

The really sad part is that they could even use that same technology for good AND profit. If it's true that (for example) the facebook algorithm knows if someone is depressed, people would pay real money for the algorithm to shape their behavior and mood for the better.

It works on hacker news and reddit too, for almost any subject.

Yep, after the stories about what TVs were doing with the microphones, I have never put my wifi password in any of my TVs. Yes, that means you need to get a separate streaming box... amazon sticks are cheap and pretty good, apple tv is expensive and great.