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Literally true - but my point about Google opposing any imposed remedy for the problem still stand.

> Additionally, one user told The Register they had spending caps in place that should have stopped any bill over $250. Yet according to Google those caps can be automatically upgraded to $100,000 …

Yes - but at current rates, it won't take anything like an actual generation to get substantially worse.

> If they have discretion... True. But doing so would be a fair amount (by index standards) of overhead and hassle. Plus they'd get endless complaints any time the S&P500 was outperformi…

If you're talking scientific credit, in an academic context, sure. But the real work is far more complex than an idealized ivory tower.

> ... for smaller farms, making jam is more practical than jelly. Probably true? Unless they are cheating by buying bulk commercial (filtered) juice. But if their customers prefer "I can see …

Zelle is (in effect) a wire transfer - there is no "credit" (meaning "borrow now, pay later") for that law to apply.

> The limiting factor is that natural gas is very cheap and cracking it to ... Another, or perhaps related, limiting factor is just how difficult hydrogen is to handle safely - compared to natural …

Yes, and for any unit of gov't which is funded by property taxes, there's a second edge on that razor blade. Spiraling residential home values yield spiraling property tax revenues. And th…

Merely a matter of perspective. If you don't mind endless fee increases, then they don't mind endless support.

They're proclaiming that AI is the Latest Big Thing in the perpetual computer security arms race. So unless you want to be stuck fighting in propeller-driven planes when every real air force h…

But as with pretty much every cardinal sin of late-stage capitalism - there are a whole lot of very entitled people, who are both very accustomed to and skilled at getting their own way, who are heavi…

Interesting...but the Gizmodo article is fact-lite and hype-heavy. Vs. the research paper - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457652... - is perfect…

Speaking of ways to - rightly or wrongly - veer off on a tangent, and convince large numbers of people that the anti-Big Brother side is unhinged... A better counter argument to "catch the pedo…

My recollection is that decision was a straight-up "success is irrelevant, HM Treasury has decided that the UK cannot afford to have an orbital launch program". Wikipedia's version: h…

Old family story: Back in the 1920's and 1930's, one of my cousins (a bit removed) was a poacher in rural northern Michigan. Everyone from the County Sheriff on down knew that she was a po…

A regular item over the past decade; the 91 comments from 2022 would be the most current - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mrsk.me …

It doesn't matter what fancy tech you have, or how much money, or anything else - if the people you have making the decisions and doing the work either are shit, or they go to shit, then you'…

Gas stations in my area often give a 3% discount for paying with cash, vs. credit. Leading me to suspect that they're paying 3%+ to Visa/MC. And that the benefits of cashless are nowhere ne…

Not to argue technical details, or say that Poland's ABW should keep incidents secret - but both the content and tone of this sort of article strike me as almost designed to teach defeatism and d…

> Yet you can see crowds of ... The "logic" of xenophobic nationalism is that narratives are selected for how well they (1) cast "us" as victims, (2) cast some convenient "…

Generally true, but the school's core protection responsibility is for its own students and staff - not the rest of the world. And the school's authority and resources are even more constra…

> Visa/MC is nice but allows ... Not sure how it is overseas - but in the US, the #1 problem with Visa/MC is the huge percentage that they skim off every transaction. Businesses running …

Beyond the easy quip, my point was that "big tech" has taken on a far-too-narrow meaning. I'd bet you didn't really mean "software" either - you were, in effect, referri…

> Does anyone believe a single big tech company isn’t harvesting data en masse from everyone in duplicitous manners? TSMC, maybe?

...unless they generously grease the right palms, or push the right "us vs. them" buttons.

Pre-1980's, it seems to have been enforced well enough to keep a whole lot of mom-and-pop grocery stores in business. I'm thinking the faded-out enforcement was due to a certain 1980's …

Anyone here familiar, to comment on the situation? From the article, it sounds like a classic case of "a party far too long in power, and forgetting that those bothersome voters expect them to ac…

It would be Un-American to overlook any chance to forcibly intervene in a Latin America country for the financial benefit of a large American company...wouldn't it?

My intent: "it's universal" means the correlation between girls being low-value and child marriages is universal. Your seeming reading: "it's universal" means child mar…