Congress seems to struggle with simple concepts, but somehow they're able to fix prices accurately for telecom services. I wonder what kind of discovery went into fixing this price.
> Each ISP would also be required to "make commercially reasonable efforts to promote and advertise" these plans, including … promotional materials sent to consumers in eligible households. [emphasis mine]
Economics aside, they seem to be capable of making the best decisions surrounding marketing as well. I do find the concept of government-mandated junk mail to be somewhat interesting, especially coming from the same-ish government that made a big deal about plastic straws. Again, was there some sort of research into the efficacy of telecom marketing-by-junkmail or did it just seem kind of expected to whomever was writing the bill for the congressperson?
It is noise. The whole thing is noise. I've never heard it referred to as the "Gulf of America" before this stupid substanceless news cycle. At first glance I don't suppose it really makes any difference if the entire continent is referred to by the name "America", but changing a name as a nod to a certain group of people is exactly the kind of empty noise I'd expect in the year of our Lord 2025. Time to tune back out.
One causes "the base" to dig in even deeper in their support. The other makes people happen under subsequent administrations. Americans' addictions to cheap sugar doesn't end at literal donuts.
I suspect they're saying there is no such thing as "fine" except in the eye of the receiver of the chemical signals. Seems like a strong stance for something lacking any foundation.
In that case, I don't think there's any reason to believe that it's objectively good. Some preferences are met, some are not, but there isn't any requirement that they are either way. In that sense, I suppose it is indeed all meaningless chemical signaling.
(for what it's worth, I do not accept this view as truth, in part because if it is "true" there isn't any real sense of truth for it to be of significance)
This is such a weird-but-probably-true take. I know it happens, but it's such a shame. Most people can't even name the CEO of their carmaker, much less that person's political positions. Most people just want to get to work and the store, and have very little other choice than some kind of car. Self expression through highly regulated corporations' focus groups: how sad.
I'm building a trial balloon in Crystal right now, though not Amber or Lucky. They had their 1.0 release (1.15, even), but it does not feel ready for production. The documentation is not great, the gotchas are unintuitive, and the discussion feels like they're not sure what direction to take the language. The runtime (event loop, fiber scheduler, and garbage collector) dependency means there's plenty of "magic" involved, making it feel significantly more like a framework than a language. Maybe that makes sense if they're targeting the web. If you're on the fence about choosing an established framework like Rails, though, Crystal is not the direction to go yet.
I wouldn't have bought this take in the past. However, currently, right now, I am fighting an uphill battle trying to get a raise for an incredibly bright, thoughtful, attentive employee who directly contributes to the bottom line. One who is embarrassingly underpaid. And one I will probably lose because of this situation, which will ultimately be a costly waste of time and effort to rehire and retrain.
It does, however, seem like the perfect medium for collecting telemetry on vehicles, so Tesla will now have a great means of tracking their vehicles locations at all times.
> Some people stopped buying pseudoephedrine entirely, either because they were offended by these rules or because they were afraid that they could wrongly be implicated in meth investigations if they appeared to buy it too often.
This has actually happened [0], and I seem to remember more instances (at least when the law was first passed). I know I have also gone to buy it in a headache-induced fog and found that I've forgotten my ID, and on at least one occasion the national drug whatever system was down and they refused to sell it. Because it has to be run through the specific national database, it has to be run through one department and I have been unable to purchase because that department has closed for the day.
These are just what comes to mind when I think about purchasing pseudoephedrine over the years; it's just generally become a pain to get. It makes me wonder if it'd be quicker and easier to just buy meth and reintroduce the hydroxyl group to get my cold medicine.
Fire is going to happen to a certain level, given a certain evironment. Again, if people show up and start burning everything around them, fires that would not have happened at all will burn valuable places. I don't need to have preventative fires wash through my living room to maintain an acceptable level of destruction; I just don't do things that will burn down my house inside.
I wish people would probe this question a little more. It certainly seems to me, what with the party-based system (and all their rules, requirements, and other methods of disincentivizing non Republican/Democrat participation), the point is not democracy at all, but political power brokering. That's not a system I'm comfortable interacting with.
Fire is part of nature, but many of these fires are caused by target shooters, OHV users, and even from home construction. It doesn't make sense to take torches to the forest and then claim it's fine because fire is natural.
Airplanes do have static wicks [0] which could be seen as a form of local ground. I love these as an example of the adjacent engineering challenges that arise.
Busses also (used to?) have ground straps that you may see dragging. Apparently this was somewhat common on cars as well. "bus ground strap" is unsurprisingly difficult to search for, but I did find a discussion on Quora [1] that claims rubber formulations were responsible for vehicles picking up a static charge.
All of this is interesting once seen as an attempt to remove the potential difference between local "ground" and ambient environment.
This is actually really cool, because an upside down airfoil will still create a high pressure ridge toward its leading edge. This causes air that would ostensibly flow along the bottom (high pressure) surface to sort of reverse and end up being pushed to the upper (low pressure) surface. The separation point is further down the leading edge than would be intuitively expected. This means the top stream of air still goes further, and faster, than the bottom stream of air.
So inverted wings still fly, just less efficiently.
Not only that, but depending on the particular FAA designated examiner you get, failing to tell him Bernoulli can result in a disapproval. I've heard of it happening.
Fortunately, none of this has ever mattered in the least for actually flying a plane, and there are plenty of sane examiners out there.
In a situation with such a low margin of value for the user, there's an even finer point on reducing friction. I know Alexa stopped being used in my household shortly after the "by the way…" addendums were introduced. This seemed to be in recognition of the trend of reduction to memorized phrases, but it was a bad approach. If the other comments are true, and incremental progress was more rewarded, it stands to reason that such a major problem with the service was under appreciated. Had it been recognized as the dead-end of the product, maybe more sophisticated models would have been pursued.
Same thing for children. One of the hardest things to watch as a parent is kids who are utterly trapped by urban hell infrastructure. Society doesn't treat people without cars well at all.
Imagine a backlog of frozen people who can now be unfrozen due to the availability of a cure, but who now have to reintegrate into society. The political implications would parallel the controversy introducing refugees
Here to point out that while a slight flavor of this can happen, it's wildly unlikely for most people. Rest and recovery are indeed important, but the vast majority of people are not fit (or genetically gifted) enough to train on a level that can result in OTS.
I'm here, on this website, reading about the ins and outs of AM reception and considering the effects of mandating the continued existence certain kind of modulation. I also bought a new car recently. In the Venn diagram of people, I'm probably right in all of the tiny overlaps (save for, maybe, concern about current baseball scores).
I can't imagine choosing between two cars and picking one because of its AM radio reception. I wouldn't even make a bet that I know if my car can receive AM.