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> in my experience Americans are Nazis about littering and recycling.

America is a really big place.

My "progressive" American city has a lot of litter, because there is no money to clean it up or punish litterers.

I've been in quite a few American cities where recycling bins simply do not exist.

Longer range (1000 miles) than a torpedo (50 miles). Much less visible than a cruise missile, the water hides it better than open air.

Historical data: https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-smartpho...

In general, it seems that Samsung beats Apple every single quarter other than Q4, which is when Apple releases their new phone.

The only notable data point is that Apple beat Samsung in Q1 2026. Otherwise, Samsung shipping more than Apple is completely expected.

Berry Amendment requires US military to buy items manufactured in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_Amendment

Funny that you mention the military, as the US military is required by law to buy domestic to ensure some sort of domestic supply chains. Even for trivial things like t-shirts and gloves.

Berry Amendment-compliant work gloves, cost more than 4x more than the imported equivalent: https://www.mechanix.com/us-en/all-work-gloves/GVMP-B55.html

Social media is a skinner box for likes and reposts. You don't even want replies unless it's an opportunity to get more likes.

Mirrored at https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/he-earns-33-an-hou...

The article doesn't emphasize it, but Assisted Access also adds back the home/back button, like older iPhones and Androids. There is no more swipe-up motion that I see my parents struggle with because they did it too slow or started from slightly too high on the screen.

I completely understand why Apple and Google removed the buttons (gotta maximize that screen real estate), but the affordance for an obvious home/reset button is great for some people.

It's just a plan, it doesn't mean that Russia or China is able or willing to execute it.

> The planned weapon architecture aims to engage targets operating in near space at altitudes up to 40 kilometers and maneuvering at lateral g-forces of up to 25, a capability that would surpass any defense system currently fielded by the Russian military.

The US likely has all kinds of secret plans to invade Canada, North Korea, or the Moon. It doesn't mean that those invasions are imminent or even practical. They're just plans that get analysts thinking.

Wouldn't a fragmented, decentralized system also help make their supply chains more resilient? If they had a single large drone factory, it would be a sizable target.

There are some side effects with blood transfusions that may be an experiment in itself. For example, blood bags can transfer plasticizers to the blood, which is a method to detect if athletes have been doping.

https://www.wada-ama.org/en/resources/scientific-research/ov...

I think that's a good case for shared notes, that all the participants can see and agree on. However the AI notes I've seen are compiled long after the meeting is done.

It's not just the cost of the antennas. This device barely has a screen and has like four buttons total. How are you going to type in a wifi password?

This is definitely a thing that's been studied in schools:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20268974 (2019, 238 comments)

However, note taking in a business sense is usually different than note taking in an academic sense. Business meetings are more often used to make decisions, unlike academics where lectures are intended to disseminate information.

Older energy meters don't track the difference between incoming and outgoing energy, so backfeeding the grid just looks like more usage.

I do doubt the importance of utilities paying people for generating power at peak solar generation times.

Cars have a "make the air bad" button, the recirculation button. Some people always have it on. I wonder if it's a factor in road rage.

People who are happy with their keyboard over a long period of time don't bother to test their WPM and tell other people on the internet about it. Nor do they regularly buy new keyboards and screw up their muscle memory.

I've been using some kind of split keyboard for the past 25 years, last eight on a Kinesis. My WPM on a normal keyboard is ghastly.

I was hoping for this to happen with Framework. Alas, it did not.

My Kinesis Advantage is only a little bit younger at 32 years old.

BMW doesn't seem to use that specific X anywhere else for any of their EV lineup. Even the back of the car uses a normal "X" character.

I think it's some mandate to give their car models some kind of "signature" headlight design.

It's still lighter than the average American BMI, which is around 29. On average, Americans are classified as overweight.

100 years ago, we built apartment heaters so strong that they worked with the windows open, because we believed that fresh air would fight against the flu:

How Spanish Flu Pandemic Changed Home Heat Radiators: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/10/945136599/how-spanish-flu-pan...

> the area becomes an enclave for the wealthy with a high unhoused population, where most youth have to move away.

Yeah, that's already happened. SF is the US city with the least amount of children, where schools have to close due to declining enrollment.

Answering texts seems to be the only specific function that I must do with my phone and no other device. Otherwise, practically every other device is better to use than a phone.

And if you put those time-wasting apps on a tablet that stays at home instead of your phone, you can't accidentally waste your time when being out and about.

This article is a bit dated (2022), as Apple now has iPhone mirroring if you have a compatible Mac.

Interesting, reminds me of Really Bad Chess where the pieces change whether you win or lose. If you're really bad the game might give you all queens or rooks.

We need these foreign companies here so that we can learn from them to modernize our manufacturing. Not just cars either.

That's how China got started - foreign companies were allowed to partner with and invest in domestic companies. Over time, those domestic companies took over and helped China become the manufacturing powerhouse it is now, not just in China, but globally.

Also, Apple probably wants the increases to happen while Cook is still CEO, rather than having new CEO Ternus announce the bad news.

Except that people do "think of the children" when buying larger vehicles, since they believe children should be in the big safe vehicles and never outside as a pedestrian.

I think as late as last year, AT&T Prepaid was still using the "paygoonline.com" domain which was an acquisition in 1995.

California (and many other states) also charges you an additional annual EV registration fee of $121 in lieu of gas taxes. There was some noise earlier this year about a federal EV tax too.