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>But watching the left since 2016 and especially recently after the death of George Floyd, policy matters don't concern me much anymore. I'm afraid of the left. I feel intimidated by thei…

>Only recently have I noticed a trend to condemn it as 'American', and if anything is sure to bring out a rather nasty, old-fashioned snob in some English people, it's being 'Am…

Explanation of CFIUS and why and how Trump can use it: https://www.lawfareblog.com/tiktok-and-law-primer-case-you-n... …

>It's the significantly cheaper that is most surprising to me. They are about $100 a year vs. $175 a year for their competitions. I pay Goodcover $72/year for renters insurance, versus $1…

More to the point, Microsoft is the company least involved in social media that has the largest warchest. No way Congress or the administration would condone any of the companies whose CEOs testified …

>EDIT: I thought iOS PINs should be six digit? It used to be four digits. The default changed to six, but there is an option to use four.

>Better to throw away the US TikTok company at this point. It's clear the American general public, Trump and US government does not like dominant foreign social media companies in the US. This…

I use Siri once or twice a day, mostly for setting alarms. Do Android users who are part of the Google Home or Alexa ecosystems not use their phones for `OK Google` or `Alexa`? Or do such people only …

>The dollar has been weakening precipitously, with the dollar index declining nearly 10% over the past few months. ... which is still up 6% from its 5-year low (January 2018), up 24% from its 10-ye…

> Every country in the world would do a great deal to get a FAANG company native to their turf. But here in America we want to wreck them. Sigh. Harry Truman said in 1945 about the atomic bomb, &qu…

Any vote your side loses is "democracy hijacked"!

Stephen Wolfram ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram ) dropped out of high school and college before getting his PhD. All it takes is being someone who * Writes three bo…

Not over federal agents. Same reason why Arkansas couldn't prevent the Eisenhower administration from using US Marshals to enforce desegregation in Little Rock in 1957. (Or Army paratroopers, as …

In Vernor Vinges A Fire Upon the Deep ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep#Time ), the future human civilization uses [kilo|mega|giga]seconds as time units becaus…

The difference is of degree, not kind. To put another way, if the leaders of a modern mob had the power to execute their targets the way Danton or Robespierre did, who is confident that they would not…

For more on the topic of tyewriters in non-alphabetic languages, I recommend The Chinese Typewriter ( https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chinese-typewriter ) from MIT Press.…

Let me clarify. I agree that in general having a centralized warehouse handle online orders is better than having retail stores do so, for the same reason why FedEx and UPS are more efficient in using…

>Sure, but sometimes the history involves a superpower teetering on the brink of fascist dictatorship Boy, did you miss the point of the article and discussion

>I got a buddy who works for DSCO, a company which, among other things, sells software that makes it easy for brick-and-mortar stores to sell products online and have the products ship from the ret…

Yes. It would be natural to assume that the company was named in imitation of the established Firestone tire company (itself named for founder Harvey Firestone), but Bridgestone's Japanese founde…

Ocean liner = designed to travel fast. Cruise liner = designed to have lots of amenities.

>I too am an immigrant to the United States and it's frustrating to read this, and not because the reasons most people might think. I came here as a child and I am reminded every day of the pr…

Because climate change isn't going to make the Canadian Shield, and muskeg, any more valuable than it is now. To put another way, if muskeg were worth using, it would have been used a century ago…

Stalin wanted to assassinate John Wayne because of his anti-Communism.( https://web.archive.org/web/20080602054832/http://www.telegr... )…

>Already a US presidential election was decided on the wrong count, when the proper count came out it was too late. The majority of media "recounts" after the fact showed that Bush did wi…

Trump transferred to Wharton after two years at Fordham. Fred Trump was a NYC real estate developer with no connection to either school; successful in his world of outerborough residential development…

The Treaty of Paris ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1783) ) ending the Revolutionary War, and Jay Treaty ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Tr…

Let me clarify. By "normal" I meant that 90% is not an unusual or undesirable situation. To some extent, an ICU bed is not being used is going to waste; from a hospital administrator's …

>for some reason the term 'early adopter' comes into my mind As one who foolishly bought not one, not two, but three first-generation Apple notebooks, you are not wrong.

>56 Florida ICUs are at capacity, with a further 35 are above 90% There are 306 ICUs in Florida ( https://bi.ahca.myflorida.com/t/ABICC/views/Public/ICUBedsHo... …