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And most patent trolls are just a few jackass lawyers, not large established companies like Nokia.

I see jokes here often enough, but they have to be tasteful, original and clever. What doesn't fly here is the lazy reddit style of joking where you just quote some lame meme or movie quip for the millionth time.

Are you alluding to some particular hypocrisy in my comment history, or do you consider me a hypocritical merely because I have nuanced opinions on leadership that depend on the stakes and context?

Democracy is a fine way to run a nation, but not a ship, plane or platoon of soldiers. Context is everything. If you think there is any one single system of leadership that is ideal in any conceivable situation, then I fear you must be a clueless ideologue. Lacking an appreciation for nuance is the mark of shallow thinker.

In small groups where decisions must be made in a timely and decisive manner, a mediocre leader is often better than the best democratic committee. Even in programming teams, somebody needs to put their foot down eventually or things will be bikeshedded to death. FOSS projects too, generally benefit from a BDFL.

Be careful about extrapolating this out to the rule of countries though, dictatorships can make things go south worse than any other system. At least with FOSS projects, people can fork without fleeing their homes.

Snowden's only value to the US is satisfying the grudge the government has against him. There's no practical value to everyday Americans in getting Snowden back now, whatever beans he had are spilt years ago.

13% risk is a number controlling out other factors

So is the other figure, so the comparison is valid. Maybe wood dust is more dangerous that you assume?

BTW, the asbestos in baby powder had nothing to do with industrial use of asbestos. It was in the talc because asbestos and talc are frequently coincident in the ground.

Secret courts aren't an accident. "Whoops my hand slipped and I accidentally drafted thousands of pages of legislation!"

No, secret courts are deliberate and malicious. Hanlon's razor is for credulous fools.

As somebody who sometimes puts slept laptops into bags, No! A laptop ever waking itself from sleep is an abomination.

It's a product of sports-teams consumerism. People make affiliation with a sports team or corporate brand into part of their identity. When they fall out with one brand they feel compelled to fill the resulting void in their soul with another affiliation. That's why Google behaving badly prompts them to reconsider the merits of a completely different corporation.

Those people also forget or deliberately ignore the existence if MacOS, and generally exaggerate the state of Android. MacOS isn't locked down like iOS yet normal laypeople can use it just fine without shooting themselves in the foot. And if there is a problem with Android, it isn't ""sideloaded"" apps but rather all the shitware in Google's own appstore. None of these three are anything like the wild west that was late 90s early 00s windows. Even Windows itself isn't that way anymore.

Self aggrandizing comparison, whole article is a humblebrag about how powerful the author is. You're an insignificant spec compared to the old grand lizard. In your most destructive, you are nothing like him. In your most heroic moments, you are nothing like him. If you ever think to compare yourself to Godzilla, the only similarity is your rampaging ego.

And this kind of thing, trouble with a boss/landlord/etc, is a lot more likely to personally impact the average person than any sort of PV-related scenario. Single party consent is a clear net positive for most people.

I asked them if they are a helicopter or plane pilot, and they replied simply: "A very good customer."

Two is better than one. If Dragon were grounded for some reason, an operational Starliner would give NASA a lot more flexibility.

Mozilla management are malicious snakes. This isn't the first time they've tried something like this and it won't be the last. Each time they issue noncommittally apologies, if you can call them that, but it keeps on happening. They're testing the water for even more ads in Firefox, trying to normalize this until people stop complaining. Keep the heat on them, don't give them an inch or they'll take a mile.

Crazy it's taken them this long and they're still having problems. If it weren't for SpaceX, the whole western world would be out of manned spaceflight right now. The Russians and Chinese can fly humans, but NASA is Congressionally forbidden from dealing with China, and since 2022 dealing with Russia is off the table too. That leaves SpaceX, and this notoriously dysfunctional Starliner program.

Get your act together, Boeing.

Facebook being banned in the EU has no justifiable bearing on NATO obligations. NATO is not a trade agreement.

The Americans are considering to ban TikTok, do you want EU to adopt the same approach and ban TikTok along with Meta and the rest?

Yes, of course.

When you add telemetry to a fork of a thing that didn't previously have telemetry, you don't deserve the benefit of doubt. The original didn't need telemetry, so neither does your fork. Anybody who does this should be assumed malicious.

And telemetry for a fucking color theme? You've got shitting me. Whoever did this is a Grade-A scumbag. It didn't happen by accident and there is no possible benign motivation for it. I hope somebody has reported this to the FBI and other relevant authorities.

The ones who broke the commons are the ones who abused it by uploading malware and lazy student projects. You shouldn't blame the host for trying to maintain standards in light of this. When you have a tragedy of the commons scenario, the solution is to regulate the commons. Otherwise it will lose all value for everybody.

Why don't they simply use their wonderful AI products to fix this?

National security is not a uniquely "wasp" concern, which you would know if you were ever in the military. What an incredibly ignorant and racist thing to suggest.

You could very reasonably call it authoritarian, but it objectively isn't totalitarian. Words tend to lose meaning in conversations like this.

As an American who opposes military adventurism, I think those bases are a net negative to America because they facilitate such wars. Protecting Europe from Soviet/Russian aggression is well and good, but insofar as those bases facilitated the "war on terror" they have been a disaster for American society. I wish American politicians would not find it so convienent to casually wage war in other hemispheres.

Technically it's the daughters of radon, the decay products, which accumulate. Radon itself has a half life of less than four days, but it decays into all kinds of nasty stuff like Polonium and ultimately Lead.

You stopped reading too soon:

Since Liebeck, McDonald's has not reduced the service temperature of its coffee. McDonald's current policy is to serve coffee at 176–194 °F (80–90 °C) [...] Similarly, as of 2004, Starbucks sells coffee at 175–185 °F (79–85 °C), and the executive director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America reported that the standard serving temperature is 160–185 °F (71–85 °C).[citation needed]

Any of this coffee can give you life changing injuries. That's why it is important that it be served in sturdy cups with safety warnings.

I'm pretty sure regular ballpoint pens work just fine in space. Try writing with one upsidedown in earth gravity; they work fine.

That's a myth within a myth. The coffee was industry standard temperature, they still serve coffee that hot today (Wikipedia says as much.) The lawsuit was justified though, because the cup design was defective. It shouldn't have collapsed like it did.

I don't know man, custom bespoke anythings probably need to cost a few hundred dollars to make it worth the time of the company, who needs to pay the workers and all the useful and useless management alike, and still turn a profit as well. The fault really lies with whoever in the government decided that a COTS hammer just couldn't work.

Breyer found that Walgreens' San Francisco pharmacies had received more than 1.2 million opioid prescriptions with "red flags" from 2006 to 2020, yet performed due diligence on less than 5% before dispensing them

Unless these "red flags" mean outright fabricated prescriptions, they should also go after and bankrupt/ imprison the doctors who wrote them. Take their McMansions. No mercy for drug peddlers.