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> If your purchase habits are uniquely trackable, upon switching to cash you'd need to modify your purchasing habits sufficiently to disassociate them from your past-self. I do not think that&…

> Is it going to be readily open to the public? The scientific data will be available to the public, sometimes after a "proprietary" period (typically in the range 6–18 months) where the …

> Its also incredibly arrogant and anthrocentric to think that our galaxy is one of the "good ones" for space travel. Where did you get that out of the article? There was no comparison t…

I suspect this is not only pertinent to AT&T; T-mobile and presumably other carriers have similar short codes for sending alerts. For T-mobile, at least, the URLs all generally appear to have the …

I will add the X201 to that list. I have been using one, exclusively with linux, for the past 4 years.

My point was that it is not a simple trade-off between "privacy and security" and a lack of those things. In order to get software updates for critical components of the phone, you may need …

I think because they still collect information from your phone and correlate it under your Google Account. I created an account solely to install software (security) updates to the built-in components…

Install f-droid and use the phone without a Google account. One unfortunate complication with this is that using the phone without a Google account means one will likely miss out on security updates…

> I've often wondered why police don't do more of this. Wikipedia claims[0] that this is not allows in California, though the citation has suffered link-rot. I think enforcing speeding li…

The wikipedia article on intermodal transport suggests close to 70% of intermodal goes on railroads in the US[0]. I am not sure what the breakdown is in terms of origin (ship vs truck) before it gets …

Are ships still cheaper if one considers the time and expense of loading/unloading the ship, plus taking containers off and putting them back on rail cars? It seems like the switching of modes co…

I wasn't sure if "Fright?" was meant to ask if there was a freight rail line with a connection or if you were suggesting that freight traffic would provide the demand.. If the former, t…

Some states get less in payouts than their _residents_ pay in taxes. But the state budgets are still larger with the federal payouts than they would be with only the state taxes.

I wonder if this theory implies that the formation of black holes in our 3D universe would trigger the formation of 2D brane sub-universes? Otherwise, it would seem weird that 4D universe has this spe…

This is a cool idea. It seems like the meatspace analogy of BOINC[0], substituting physical lab equipment for computing power. I wonder if this could lead to grant approvals requiring that procedures …

But that does not mean that federal taxes do not enhance the state budget. That just means your federal taxes amount to more than the assistance your state gets. So your state budget is still enhanced…

But it isn't that simple. State budgets are partly funded by federal taxes. Just skimming this abstract from the CBO report[0], in 2011, 25% of state and local government expenses were covered by…

The short version is that MySQL was acquired by Oracle (when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems). Following concerns about it remaining open source, MySQL was forked by it original creator, and is deve…

The full text of the article is available for free at the above link (at least for me, from home), but the University of Virginia (where the study was performed) has a summary of the findings: http:&…

I think you just explained why the simple ratio: (# of divorces / # of marriages) is prone to difficulty. The ratio is artificially skewed by people who marry/divorce frequently. So the simp…

From that post: Jabber and XMPP were full of promise, sure — if you bought into the “let’s build decentralized, interoperable services” Kool-Aid. I think that article makes a lot of good points, but…

It depends on what one wants the "divorce rate" to mean.