Also: stable USB and stable GPU, sort of like the BBB.

I'll try to remember to ask again on the 3.9-million units ("almost 4 million", take 2) story.

Lawrence should have used a service that allows her to pay e.g. $10/mo extra to insure against leakage. In aggregate, such funding can be used to improve security, and when the security eventually fails, provide restitution to the person who deserves damages under the terms of the policy.

Does such a service exist yet? If not, it probably needs to be started in a jurisdiction where States don't stack insurance regulations up the wazoo.

All this business about fault, implied contracts, what party A or B should have done or not done, upon whom society should unleash vengeance, etc. is just thumb-twiddling when we have existing social mechanisms to deal with these sorts of problems.

Money doesn't solve everything, but where it does, it's most often a better solution than the others available, and such solutions net improved goods on the far side (in this case improved security for everybody due to the targeted funding and pressures of reinsurance). "Party A should do X and do it for free" is almost always a losing argument.

One of the problems with cities is that they concentrate pollution. One of the dirty secrets of cities is that their governments do the bare minimum required to get rid of their waste. I remember growing up on the Jersey Shore and some days the beaches would be littered with tampon tubes because NYC just dumped their sewage offshore. When you're five, you just don't understand what's happening - I'm surprised our parents let us spend the day in that water.

The trouble is, these governments do everything they can to externalize the costs of living in the city onto the people (and apparently minnows) who don't. The wastewater treatment plants discussed here could absolutely destroy the estrogen before releasing it into the environment - but the sewage bills might have to double to make that happen. The city folks would undoubtedly scream about "unfairness" if their water was effectively treated before discharge.

What could possibly go wrong?

People could adopt this attitude, giving medical devices special consideration, the FCC could give medical devices a pass on accepting RF interference, and then respirators could start randomly failing when you walk an 802.11b device past them, while anything without the "medical exception" was already designed to reject the interference.

BTDTGTTS (1998).

Drones kill brown babies. Aerobots deliver tacos.

ROM 2.0 was amazing. Two decades ago.

100 times as many as the team achieved a year agoâ"the group will need to produce 10,000 times as many to achieve breakeven."

In other words they aren't even remotely close to a meaningful breakthrough. Nothing to see here, move along...

The words are hard to parse to establish the baseline, but it either says that they need to make as much more progress as they made last year (100x), or they need two more years like last year (100x * 100x) to achieve breakeven.

What's unclear is if they made methodical or breakthrough progress last year.

If you even go in to buy a candy bar they will ask you to apply for a credit card at the register. Even if you are eleven years old (happened to my daughter last week). Then they give you seven feet of receipt material with coupons, surveys, and a copy of the Magna Carta.

They are so going out of business. I would be short on the stock.

so go to a coffee shop where the wifi doesn't suck. Problem solved, coffee shops customer-regulated into competitively providing decent internet.

an educated population is one of the best defenses against mindless wars. That's why it's so important to the corrupt governments that want to wage those wars to have control of the education systems in their societies.

we owned a Pontiac minivan for three years - over that time it cost us about $50,000 in acquisition cost, gasoline, and repairs, net out eight thousand for the trade in 'value' at the end of its miserable life. Who wants to claim that makes us 1 or 2 percenters? It was a real mistake to buy a GM product, but that doesn't mean that the target market was anything other than middle America.

Eric is saying the crypto will break the internet

He's right in that some of what we have now may become unworkable. But insulating the Internet from corrupt governments is progress, and we may well have to give up some of the utility that we could have had given the assumptions that there are non-corrupt governments. But that was an idealistic pipe-dream as such a thing has never existed in history.

This moment is one of architectural correction. "Oh, what a pretty bridge we could have without winds and rust!" The faster it happens, the sooner we can get on with human progress.

but the study claims that they would be unable to vent ONLY the oxygen and would be forced to vent nitrogen as well

It's too bad we don't have any experience with binding oxygen to other chemicals.
There's a whole planet full of rusty soil to be had - I don't get why anybody is advocating for a sealed-ecosystem as if they're on a space station.

the consultants who drive Teslas understand RoI but, man, the guys in Range Rovers? - run away!

this is nonsense. The US Constitution only grants the power explicitly delegated to the federal government - other powers fall to the States and the people. Any protections listed are based on natural rights which are inherent in the human being, not in a citizenship, and so apply equally to all humans.