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    Jeff Bezos says it’s totally not space, but watch Virgin Galactic fly anyway

    Branson when asked if he was trying to beat Jeff Bezos to space: > Jeff who?
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    New Google Pay debit card lets you actually spend the money people send you

    Did they also upgrade the messaging features?
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    mRNA vaccine technology moves to flu: Moderna says trial has begun

    I'm kicking myself for not coming up with that comment!
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    mRNA vaccine technology moves to flu: Moderna says trial has begun

    Does this have the potential to render some viruses extinct? That's an exciting prospect!
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    Trump sues Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube in “preposterous” bid for reinstatement

    And then someone, somewhere will make the wild argument that the term limit only applies to consecutive terms, or that the first term didn't count due to obstruction or something.
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    Trump sues Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube in “preposterous” bid for reinstatement

    SCOTUS judges are an interesting bunch, while they do have political leanings, they also sometimes have ideological and philosophical leanings that can at times contradict their political leanings in some cases. They also often have beliefs in legal principals that lead them to decisions that...
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    Trump sues Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube in “preposterous” bid for reinstatement

    The emperor has no clothes. More like: The president has no brain.
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    Trump sues Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube in “preposterous” bid for reinstatement

    He had a blog, it lasted like a month, no one paid any attention to it.
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    Trump sues Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube in “preposterous” bid for reinstatement

    There are four main options or directions for legislation (in this I include constitutional amendment) regarding hosting user generated content. 1. The current system or something very similar 2. 0 liability on the condition that everything legal is permitted and no one gets banned for legal...
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    Increasingly, the ULA-Blue Origin marriage is an unhappy one

    All this means is that accurate evaluation requires more care and effort, not that the information is useless.
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    Increasingly, the ULA-Blue Origin marriage is an unhappy one

    Can anyone recommend an article about this? Or provide a TL;DR?
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    Increasingly, the ULA-Blue Origin marriage is an unhappy one

    Also inaccurate considering the ratio of net profit between AWS and Amazon Retail.
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    Increasingly, the ULA-Blue Origin marriage is an unhappy one

    To anyone who was tempted to look but didn't bother, it is exactly as spectacular as you think.
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    Spiders eating snakes, oh my! Here are the photographs to prove it

    Kangaroos will kill too, if you ever see one distressed in the water, apparantly it isn't distressed, it's waiting for you to come in to help, so it can drown you. Haven't fact checked this, but it's Australian, so I don't feel like I need to.
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    Spiders eating snakes, oh my! Here are the photographs to prove it

    Actually, the web thing works out quite well under water, they use them to store air!
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    Google Play dumps APKs for the more Google-controlled “Android App Bundle”

    If it isn't easy to use, then users will find a way to make it easy, that's often a recipe for disaster. Usability is a huge security concern.
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    Musk aims to cut Starlink user terminal price from $500 to as low as $250

    Every month or two for a little under an hour is pretty shit. The only outages I have experienced have been due to router or modem malfunction that was fixed inside of 5 minutes or that one time a truck broke the overhead cable.
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    Musk aims to cut Starlink user terminal price from $500 to as low as $250

    Another experiment you can do is monopoly, but give some people extra money to start, or other advantages like permanent discounts on properties or rent. Apparantly a significant portion will still think that they win because of skill.