They give it to a third party - other chrome users. I was once in a train, and location services located me in a suburb hundreds of km away - clearly I was traveling with someone living there, using a portable/mobile hotspot. These kind of edge cases are hard to prevent (and rare), but still can lead to serious fines.
Let's assume there were 150 "cancer treatment breakthrough" stories in that time (about "every other month"). Then it is a reasonable guess that any "cancer treatment breakthrough" improves survival rate by 0.1 percent points, far below the effect size that could be reliably demonstrated in an academic study. Which is great, but not what the layman reader would take from such a headline.
"Breakthrough" implies "you have to update your mental model" - but no layman has to think differently about cancer treatment after reading this story.
Yes, but it is an unfortunate selection of data, as excess death due to Covid in the EU mostly happened in two waves, non of which extended to July. But I don't want to downplay the impact of heat waves, they death spike associated with them is interesting, and underappreciated by the public.
To save everyone one Google search: [1]. It is/was apparently not clear if the guy was masturbating or being assaulted - that's the point of the story.
Sure, but the rule not to print naked adults might be useful and necessary to enforce a rule of "don't bring your amateur porn to this shop, please". Which I think is a reasonable request. Some might not be bothered, but the analogy to sending dick-pics comes to mind.
A very nice idea to use named colors to choose where the cube is transparent - much more interesting than just displaying a grid of dots or similar. Thanks for sharing!
A bit off-topic, but I feel like Wiktionary is a hidden champion on the internet. Some time ago I noticed that I use Wiktionary more often than Wikipedia these days. I am not an expert in the space, but I get the impression that it's content (especially the multi-language aspect) outperforms any other dictionary in existence. It's an absolute treasure, without many of the problems and conflicts an encyclopedia cannot really circumnavigate.
From my quick reading, it's a penalty, so it's not necessarily supposed to be a compensation, but a deterrent. So I guess the answer is that the money goes to "everyone", which is fine in my book (otherwise you have all the overhead of registering who gets what, which leads to a large chunk going to law firms).
It's not a good headline. Not the emoji cost the texter money, but acting in bad faith [according to the ruling]. If you mislead the counterparty during a negotiation by using emojis --- you are still misleading the counterparty.
> This is also why secondhand goods in general are so cheap, and things like furniture may even have negative net value because they cost more to move than they are worth.
On the German equivalent to Craigs' List - Ebay Kleinanzeigen - IKEA furniture is much easier to sell than other furniture, even though IKEA furniture is cheap and quality is only "good enough". The reason, I think, is that used IKEA furniture comes closest to still being a standardized item. You can easily look up the dimensions online, you may already have or know the exact same item, you know what to enter into the search field [of Ebay Kleinanzeigen]. The overall buying experience might even be better than going to the IKEA store, as the furniture is already assembled and potentially closer to your home.
The "How" is removed automatically on HN, if I remember correctly. I never understood how that is helpful. Maybe it is to "disarm" Buzzfeed-like "How to ..." headlines, but more often than not it just creates (slightly) misleading titles.
I have no insights in how they use that money, but I sure hope they have not spent it already on 300 SF developer years, but rather treat it as an endowment. In the long run - spending 1-5 million every year, investing the rest - it shouldn't be too difficult to preserve the nominal value over such a long time frame.
Do you think most people who post publicly on the internet would agree if asked? I think most people would like to have a choice to make old stuff disappear. If most people think so, THAT should be the rule. You might not like that and argue that there is no way to enforce it, but that does not mean it is a good rule to assume consent.
In addition to that, usually for animation movies they do the voices first and make the animation to match. For comedy headliners, one might be able to recognize the actor from animated facial expressions, timing etc.
I am in no position to judge if that is true for Shrek.
(BTW, the German word for fear is Schreck [not a perfect translation, but the same spirit], yet I never made the connection mentioned in the article. Cool!)
The technically interesting thing is the automatic generation of the "bones", something the Disney solution does not do - they make you draw your character within a predefined grid.
What I never understand: Why do they not put a sticker with an unique ID on the items (or require the seller to do so, with occasional compliance checks)? That way they could match customer complaints to the company that delivered the item, even if it is not the seller the customer bought from.
If you cannot sell the leather, the meat will have to become more expensive (same cost to raise the animal, additional cost for discarding the skin, less income). If meat is more expensive, less will be bought, shrinking the meat market.
If there is traffic, that means that your spot behind the cyclist will immediately be replaced by another car. If everyone acts like that, the biker caries a bubble of faster-than-average cars with them. Hardly ideal.
I propose a different protocol: Slow down, and follow the cyclist until the situation allows to safely overtake the cyclist at a nice distance without speeding up too much. You will still travel faster than the cyclist, and you have actively contributed to the safety of the cyclist.
I think some European countries are on the right path: the tax money is not gone, just distribute it equally (as the externalities of emissions hurt everyone in the same way), and the poor will be fine. If only we could roll out such a scheme globally, it would be the just and definite solution for climate change.
Your individual emissions are above the global average? Tough luck. Are they below the global average? Congratulations, your higher purchase price for iphones is more than compensated by the payout everyone worldwide gets every month.
> (when climate change was arguably worse since there was no dent in emissions by lockdowns)
I am not an expert on any of this, but my understanding is that climate change is dependent on the TOTAL level of CO2 in the atmosphere, not the rate of adding CO2. Thus, as 2020 was obviously not net-zero, 2021 is worse than 2020 is worse than 2019. I think many people misunderstand this fundamental point, maybe because they link CO2 to air pollution, which reacts much faster (because of wind, rain, etc.).
On the other hand, why shouldn't NSA and CIA be invested 100% in pushing back on these attacks already? The potential harm from this vector is obviously gigantic, so why wait for a really significant attack to happen?
So true! In High School, we sometimes had to take turns reading out loud from textbooks of literature. I sucked at reading out loud, often reading out words that were not there or losing the line. That was embarrassing, which did not help. Turned out my vision was just not good enough to clearly see the characters when sitting with a straight back! But I never noticed it, because my vision was good enough for everyday situations. I don't remember clearly what finally triggered me to take a vision test, maybe it was for the drivers license.