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Have you seen the price of electricity?

That's with only about 5% of cars being electric.

We've consumed nearly all of the slack in transmission capacity.

I'm expecting transmission costs to balloon.

Blood is tested for disease, but the false negative rate for each test is its own risk.

If you got blood from an addict living on the street engaging in prostitution and tested it, would you trust that blood?

I wouldn't.

That might have been true at some point in the past and the judiciary might even feel that way still.

However the practical penalty for filling absurd lawsuits is zero unless you do it repeatedly to random people for a decade.

Absolutely nothing bad will happen to the plaintiff or the lawyers representing them in this case.

Western legal systems are broken.

Can't really compare a natural monopoly (water utility) that should be the government with something that isn't a natural monopoly (research).

Canadians generally think that buying and selling their information is illegal so it's not happening, which is why this is news.

They're right that it's illegal but definitely wrong about it not happening.

The damage to privacy from this is likely much less then the average person realizes.

(an American living in Canada's perspective)

SFO Gate Explorer 3 months ago

SFO has no line for business class or high status travelers. (they have pre and clear).

That's the only difference.

Copy Fail 3 months ago

It might have been true in 2002 but it hasn't been true since at least about 2010.

You've almost certainly never had a system that supported any hardware accelerated crypto that also required a kernel module.

It's much easier to expose as cpu extensions.

Copy Fail 3 months ago

You should take note that this is written by the person that wrote the bad patch.

So grain of salt.

Ah yes a completely centralized system that scales, who would have thought.

(For the pedantic, it's not exactly centralized nor federated since each airline treats their view of the world as absolutely correct)