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Chinese scientist proposes solar system-wide resource utilization roadmap
  • Maybe they can get the diamond clouds on Jupiter to pay for the new spaceport, in space cash of course.

  • More than half of UK children do not read in their spare time, survey reveals
  • In elementary school we weren't even allowed to check out books from the library if the teacher didn't think we could pass the AR test because it would lower the class average.

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    Wealthy residents raise $60,000 to stop homeless shelter being built in San Francisco
  • Can all these NIMBYs just pack up and move to Tallahassee already? Seems like they'd be way happier there.

  • Hours of work
  • And you'll have to do documentation and everything and then they won't even use it.

  • WD refused to answer our questions about its self- wiping SanDisk SSDs
  • I just typed in Lacie SSD into Amazon and wouldn't you know it the second-top result is a sponsored listing for the SanDisk Extreme 2TB with a $5 coupon, 4.7 stars and 46,000 reviews. Now if those reviews aren't fake I don't know what is.

  • Band Names
  • I read the title as Brand Names and I was trying to figure out what the mystery brands were, until I realized it said bands.

  • What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?
  • Even better if you use Experian: give us access to all your spending data or else you'll never see a score increase again (source: been dealing with this for three years while Equifax continues to go up. I feel like they're doing something illegal, but they probably already were and nobody cares.)

  • Most innovative tech bro
  • There's some truth there, it's hard to measure the value of something if it doesn't exist. Might as well just build it and see!

  • Most innovative tech bro
  • The last part took me a minute but that is really the hallmark of any commercial software from the last 15 years. They all think they've solved your problem that they've never heard of.

  • Sign our petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Mozilla's Firefox to censor websites
  • Never heard of that one, I was telling somebody the other day about IceWeasel. So there definitely are FF clones. Or I guess you could just compile Firefox yourself and remove the denylist portion of the code. Would be extra funny if they compiled a version specific for France (because why block sites for everybody else?) and put it next to the regular one on their website with text that said oh BTW if you're in France definitely only download this version, wink wink.

  • Could modern computers decipher hieroglyphics if we never found the Rosetta Stone?
  • I'll have more faith once it can reliably switch back and forth between Unicode symbols and their underlying HTML entities. It understands the concept of emojis and can use them appropriately, but I can tell there's still some underlying issues in the token/object model for non-ASCII symbols.

  • [VERGE] Google Maps will stop showing gas stations to EV owners
  • Most Tesla stations don't have bathrooms, bad coffee or prepackaged danishes though.

  • Microsoft AI suggests food bank as a β€œcannot miss” tourist spot in Canada
  • Oh just wait until you learn about all the miscategorizations that are lurking in Google Maps data. Want a nice seafood date for two? Head on down to the fish counter at your local Walmart! They categorized every business very generically and never made discrete tourism categories.

  • Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment
  • Now they "only" sell for about 50,000. There's still plenty of people who don't get why it's not worth that much.

  • **STRAYS Discussion Megapost** 2023-08-18 🐢🐢
  • Homeward bound was a cute movie but I'm not sure how well talking animals works as a genre. Although, this movie will be for somebody.

  • [❓] ChatGPT's fate hangs in the balance as OpenAI reportedly edges closer to bankruptcy
  • How do I approach a VC firm about losing all their money in a big spectacle? Seems to be all the rage these days.