I am surprised Pornhub hasn't acquired a VPN company yet...
Then you can prove collusion to circumvent whatever legislation is there.
Readit NewsFlyingBears commented on Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering quagmirerepair.com/milwau... · Posted by u/jakogut
I never buy the batteries - I always look for a tool with the battery, as you can almost always score a free tool (or free battery depending on how you look at it).
Drug dealers give out feelers to get customers started.
FlyingBears commented on Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers x.company/blog/posts/taar... · Posted by u/tadeegan
How is better communication scary for military? The weapons themselves are
Jam resistant comms are critical for drones, and other precision weapons and their infrastructure. Even if line of sight is interrupted modern drones can return to signal nowadays, relay information, and return to target with corrections. You may not need optical cable anymore
FlyingBears commented on State Farm seeks 22% emergency rate hike ocregister.com/2025/02/03... · Posted by u/milleramp
As a Californian, the ballot measure that limits the ability of insurance companies to increase and tailor rates to reflect risk is absurd. I hope someone funds a ballot measure to repeal the statute.
In its “best” form, it’s requiring those who have bought homes in safer areas statewide to subsidize those in more dangerous areas, which is already absurd, considering those more dangerous areas are already predominately wealthy coastal and hillside areas that can and should pay their own full cost of insurance.
My annual payment with a different insurer nearly doubled after our insurer had to drop the entire zip code purely because half of my zip code is in a high fire hazard zone, even though my property and half of zip code is rated one of the lowest fire hazard zones in the state.
At its most extreme, because of the provisions limiting risk adjustment based on and within zip codes (originally, for redlining, which I understand, but for fire risk it makes no sense considering different locations are inherently riskier), it will and has caused insurance companies to exit the state entirely, and then we’re all screwed.
I do wonder if SCOTUS will revisit this and declare the original ballot measure limiting risk an unconstitutional “taking” from those in safer locations (or insurers themselves), given my understanding is Florida has the same issues too…
Re-pricing insurance seems to be the most effective way to reduce property values right now.
FlyingBears commented on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round bbc.com/news/articles/cn4... · Posted by u/vinni2
I am getting 1989 flashbacks, but this time this is a coupe that subverts institution to its purpose.
FlyingBears commented on After USA Ban: Google Kicks Kaspersky Out of Play Store heise.de/en/news/After-US... · Posted by u/flykespice
It only took US three years of Russia-Ukraine war to kick a KGB's spying app out of their stores. This is a disaster. This should have been done on day 1.
Well, with enthusiasm like that it is no wonder China and Russia banned all western social media and are actively trying to replace these services with homegrown. China was first, Russia late to the party, but working on it.
Great. We need more innovation in the world. Hopefully, India isn't too far behind.
China has 28,000 miles of high-speed rail. United States? Close to zero. Low-speed maglevs look interesting: https://crrczelc-europe.com/medium-low-speed-maglev-changsha...
For some reason, we just want to drill more oil and make our highways wider.
Who's getting to Mars first?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/china/china-mars-mission-tian...
I am afraid we might be too late for maglev party with self driving on the horizon. Non-functioning last mile transportation and ruined cities (as in for pedestrians and density) are another shadow.
FlyingBears commented on Signal messenger blocked in Russia, says Roskomnadzor reuters.com/technology/si... · Posted by u/dtquad
Russia is trying to follow China's example to shed dependence on West controlled services and grow domestic alternatives. Which is long overdue since they don't have equitable access to these services.
FlyingBears commented on Who makes the most reliable new cars? consumerreports.org/cars/... · Posted by u/deletionist
Mini is hot garbage on wheels comparable to VW. I am really surprised to see this.
Meta nearly doubled its headcount in 2020 and 2021, assuming the pandemic growth would continue. However, Zuckerberg later admitted this was a mistake.