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Assuming that they accrete whatever they buy and use it, that strategy has less and less effect over time,

It might be true that the NYT can't be trusted to regulate itself for the same reasons raised in the article - primarily that it has no incentive to do so, and lots of incentives not to. That said, I care a lot more about Facebook being properly regulated than I do about the NYT, simply because of the amount and scope of data that Facebook has.

Monero is designed to be mined more efficiently with CPUs, or rather, not give such a huge advantage to GPU or dedicated systems (I've read that GPU mining is only 2x the performance of a roughly equivalent CPU, instead of 1000+x as with bitcoin).

This method would only work with objects that are rigid in all orientations, too - so bunches of keys are out.

Is there any legitimate need for a phone mic to pick up sounds way outside the range of human speech and hearing? If this sort of thing should not be allowed, why not just add a software low-pass filter in the front of the audio input chain? What would the side effects of this be?

You're not paying for a 'premium speed limit' that's higher than everyone else's - it's _supposed_ to inconvenience you so you stop doing it.

The official answer is "Links shouldn't ever create or delete things". Of course, in practice, lots of links do create and delete things, and that this type of preloading would be a really bad idea on those sites.

The Element, and all the other modern, pillar-less 'suicide rear door' cars I've seen (Landcruiser FJ, Mazda something-something), have the rear door latched by the front one, so you can't open the rear without first opening the front, 'normally hinged' door - it's a pretty good safeguard against latches failing and doors being sucked open while driving.

The Tesla has power steering, which is controlled by the same software that decided that the door doesn't need to stay closed while driving.

First thing I thought of, too! If it helps, 'Empties' were renamed 'Springs' in the game STALKER.

Except if it's an optimisation for battery life. Theoretically, you could use less power by pinging the GPS less often in 'snap to road' mode - if that's the case, the 'real' data wouldn't exist or wouldn't be accurate.

It could save on battery power: If the user has been on the road, we can ping the GPS less often on the assumption they'll be mostly moving along one of a set of known paths.

It could compensate for poor GPS availability, by allowing the track generator to make more informed guesses about where the user has been, if a GPS ping happens to get dropped.

That's somewhat ironic, considering Strava does their own form of 'snap-to-track' normalisation on GPS data. They have to, in order to do leaderboards on segments, at a guess, but still...