It’s an economic gauge for the small segment of society that gets more income from investments than they do from wages.

Why would that be, that drone warfare advantages defense?

WW1 era weapons advancements like machine guns advantaged defense, because these new weapons were not easily mobile. But drones are extremely mobile.

Why in the world would Iran do that?

It seems to be a long term trend that gambling has spread much further, but I think this supreme court case was a point where it became essentially up to each state now to allow gambling or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_v._National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association

I always default to DDG, and it gets me what I need 80% of the time. If not, do the search again with !g at the end and DDG will forward the search to Google

Prohibition of any item, meaning, making the item illegal to make or possess anywhere, is a stronger infringement on personal freedom and often leads to organized crime stepping in to provide the prohibited item, both of which make it unpopular.

Popular smoking bans generally ban smoking in certain public areas. This does not promote organized crime to sell the banned product, and is less of an infringement on personal freedom.

The proposal to “ban cigarettes” sounds like it would fall under the former category .

The solution to this, at least in my case, is that I need regular exercise (running at rest 3 miles in the last 3-4 days) to sleep well.

Engineers under such incentives should ask AI how to most easily and speedily consume as many credits as possible, I bet it knows a great way

I really wonder to what degree “Self Driving Vehicles” are being completely or partially supervised and controlled by an overseas desk worker.

Another American here.

My old doctor office had me waiting for over an hour in their dingy musty crowded waiting room, before I found out that they had somehow lost my checkin and had completely forgotten me. TWICE this happened.

Then I switched to a new practice that has brand new immaculate white brightly lit waiting rooms with free keurig coffee and juice and water bottles, and a big farmhouse door aesthetic. This place has NEVER had me waiting more than 20 minutes. I can’t fathom how the old place is still in business.

Edit: the new place has an official written policy that if you no-show to two or three appointments they will fire you as a patient. I respect that.

Second edit: The new place makes a big deal about how they are an “independent medical practice” meaning they are not owned by the mega corporate hospital system that my former practice was owned by. Maybe that’s the difference.

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you may understand it better but it kills the subject

Seriously, http://www.ebay.com/

Not always, but very often in my experience, the manufacturer’s own website is more expensive than Amazon!

I want websites to all have a button that says “yeah you can sell my personal data but the website contractually agrees to give me half”

All those military pilots need to fly those aircraft regularly so their skills remain current, right? Might as well do it for an audience.

On my work laptop, Notepad used to have Copilot built in but now it doesn’t. So that’s a little scaling back

We learned during Covid that at least half of the country would kill not some stranger, but their neighbors and friends, and not for ten grand, but to avoid the mild discomfort of wearing a mask and social distancing

I had read at one point many years ago that CD-Rs degrade over time and are not good for long term backups. Is this wrong or are Blurays different?

The 1GB Gmail storage was initially announced on April Fool’s Day and it was quite the topic of discussion whether it was real or not.

A year or two later they upped it to 2GB and also announced this on April 1

It had to get really, really, awfully, embarrassingly bad for me to leave Facebook. But it really was, and a few years ago I did. If Facebook was only half as awful as it is, I would probably still be on it.

And the sneaking suspicion that every social media site will eventually devolve into Facebook has kept me from joining any more.

I still use Youtube for videos on how to do DIY home projects and repairs, but I don’t consider that social media. To me, “social media” is not “an app that distributes content”. I would say “social media” has the user’s real name on it and is for the purpose of interacting with friends and family, and meeting new people. That’s definitely not what I use Youtube for.