thescriptkiddie

It's funny how the tories (and their counterparts in other countries) are always fanatically committed to austerity in every area except one.

> no sane country would want to help their adversaries to achieve stronger offensive capabilities

The cold war was very much a one-sided affair. The USA may have seen the USSR as a military adversary, but the USSR did not see the USA the same way.

Casualty numbers that large are highly unusual, you generally only see them in legendary tales that are almost certainly exaggerated tenfold if they happened at all. Ancient armies were not particularly well organized and would usually dissolve rather than fighting to the last man. Also keep in mind that the non-US death toll of the Vietnam War was well in excess of 3 million.

more like voluntary contributing to the maintenance of an invaluable archive project

> "Almost nothing in the complete annual physical examination is based on evidence," Michael Rothberg, who directs the Cleveland Clinic Medicine Institute Center for Value-Based Care Research, wrote in the esteemed Journal of the American Medical Association in 2014.

The American Medical Association is not a research institution, it is a lobbying group and price-fixing cartel. I would not trust any doctor that is an AMA member.

Isn't that a tautology? Of course knowing you have a disease doesn't prevent you from having the disease.

The point is that knowing you have a disease allows you to treat the disease, which one would hope would reduce your chances of dying or becoming disabled.

Reading the actual article, it seems like the problem isn't regulation, it is complaints from locals.

I wonder if this could help Venice with its subsidence problem.

The Free Software Foundation has been advocating for such a right for decades.

carrier locking is a separate thing from bootloader locking

What happens in 5 years when Google gets tired of running the server?

I was under the impression that Lyft had ~2 million employees, not ~3 thousand.

Where I live there is a high-speed road (45 mph speed limit, no sidewalks) going through a park. Lyft and Bird have both designated the entire park as a prohibited zone except for the road. The city has also designated the road a "cycling route" despite it not having bike lanes.

I found this out while trying to ride a scooter through the park. Google Maps directed me to take the road, which I was not thrilled about but seemed like a better idea than carrying the scooter through the prohibited zone. But then the fuzzy geofencing on the scooter thought I was in the park anyway and kept intermittently cutting off the scooter.

> A slug is defined as the mass that is accelerated by 1 ft/s2 when a net force of one pound (lbf) is exerted on it.[2] One slug is a mass equal to 32.1740 lb

this is like if you tried to explain the difference between a newton and a kilogram to an alien an they didn't quite get it

> there are lots of hourly employees who work 32 hours and would like to work 40 hours and get benefits.

benefits should not depend on how many hours your work

Do you mean the pedestrian underpasses or the underground trains? Because the noise level in an underground train station is significantly less than at street level, it just seems louder because it is intermittent.

Unfortunately most openings for electricians aren't good unionized career positions anymore, they are independent contractor scams with low pay, no benefits, and bad working conditions.

Apple is considering possibly removing one of the most anti-consumer features of its phones and there are people in the comments arguing against it. Not looking good for the future of society.

Assuming that the fuel injector wasn't stuck open, the car could simply disable the affected cylinder and continue to run (poorly) in limp mode. I had exactly this happen in a 20 year old VW and it turned out that the injector was fine and the connector had just come loose. The engine sounded awful running on 3 cylinders and wouldn't go past 3000 rpm but there was no permanent damage. The fault code in the ECU correctly identified the problem (fuel injector cylinder X open circuit) though it did also log misfires and disable traction control.

Fun fact, the American Medical Association artificially limits the number of doctors that can go through residency programs each year. The limit is actually lower than the number of medical school graduates, forcing some small number of new doctors to leave the country because they aren't allowed to become licensed.

The shift change problem can be eliminated by having shifts overlap, hospitals just don't want to hire more staff to make that happen.

In my experience, software has been getting slower faster than hardware has been getting faster. Bringing focus back to performance would be a welcome improvement.

> Racial segregation is really a different issue though

How do you square that with the fact that racial minorities are significantly poorer on average?

> it involves excluding a person based on something out of their control

Are you implying that people choose to be poor?

I had Apple quote me $900 to replace a failed screen (no visible damage, but no image either) and tell me that they weren't sure it would even work because of "liquid damage" to the mainboard. I can assure you that the computer never got wet. I bought a replacement screen from ifixit for less than half the price and installed it myself in an hour.

That's good, but if the FAA had been more permissive in allowing automotive-derived engines with electronic fuel injection and ethanol fuel mixes, we could have phased out 100LL back in the 90s.

The term you are looking for is "neutron activation". Irradiation alone doesn't make things radioactive, they have to capture fast neutrons specifically in order to be transmuted into unstable isotopes. Hydrogen and Oxygen are less susceptible to this than heavier elements which is why it is so hard to make heavy water. It does happen inside running nuclear reactors but spent fuel doesn't give off enough neutrons for it to be an issue.

One other very big advantage to a more modern engine design is the ability to potentially run on unleaded fuels.

> VCs don't hate labor. They love money.

Marx would agree. People who don't know better tend to think that labor vs capital is an aesthetic or moral conflict rather than a material one. The mechanics of capitalism force the owners to exploit the workers as much as possible, or else they will be driven out of business. That doesn't necessarily make the owners bad or hateful people, though it does select for people who are able to convince themselves that they are doing the right thing in spite of the evidence.

firefox and other browsers are just not very good at password management. it does seem like a feature that should be built in to the browser.

> they'll last pretty-much as long as a LiFePo

citation needed