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  • The "unhackable" Xbox One has been hacked — and Microsoft can’t patch it

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  • I mean, it took almost 13 years and the product itself was discontinued six years ago

  • and a little self- centaured

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  • This was the top comment when the artist posted the OP comic on Imgur, so it seems like a possibility

  • Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story

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  • It’s not an illegal taxi service, it’s ride sharing.

  • Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold

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  • Tommy Thompson, 73, discovered millions of dollars' worth of sunken treasure from the 1857 wreck of the SS Central America, also known as the Ship of Gold, off the coast of South Carolina in 1988.

    Investors in Thompson's venture accused him of cheating them out of promised proceeds and after years on the run he was jailed in 2015 on a criminal contempt charge.

    A total of 161 investors had given Thompson $12.7m (£9.4m) to find the ship on the understanding that they would see returns on their investment.

    Thompson, then an oceanic engineer at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, and his crew brought up thousands of gold bars and coins in 1988, much of them later sold to a gold marketing group in 2000 for about $50m.

    He had maintained that the coins were turned over to a trust in Belize and that the profits from the sale of the first batch of gold had mostly gone toward legal fees and bank loans, according to the BBC's US partner CBS News.

    The investors sued Thompson in 2005, alleging they had not yet received any proceeds from the treasure's sale. Later, a criminal complaint against Thompson said the gold bars and coins he recovered from the seafloor were worth up to $400m.

  • What is the funniest impulse purchase you’ve made/seen someone you know make?

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  • I bought a turd shaped stress squeeze toy at Dollarama in Quebec for C$2 or C$3

  • Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company

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  • Google started bringing fiber to neighboring towns and all of a sudden the cable company started offering speeds 3x faster for less money and AT&T built out a fiber network including in our town, which didn’t get Google for another ten years, and then only a franchise that was paying for the Google name.

  • AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case

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  • Should sue the AI facial recognition company. They can’t just say “whoopsie daisies” on that!

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  • We took my in-laws back to my father-in-law’s hometown on the west coast of France last year and it was kind of wild to have it not be dark out until 10 pm. A lot of times we didn’t have dinner until 8:30 or 9 because it didn’t feel that late.

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  • They last tried DST “year-round” starting in January 1974 and people quickly hated it, with support dropping from 79% before it started to 42% three months in. Morning accidents increased and schoolchildren were injured or killed.

    I don’t necessarily love the idea of the sun starting to rise as early as 4am in the summer, but I think if we’re going to stay with one we might as well stick to standard time year-round. We’d still have light past 8 PM where I live and it would mean activities better for the dark could start earlier. I see places wanting to take advantage of the warm weather for things like outdoor movies but they can’t start until after 9.

  • xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles

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  • I only recently learned that in the US not every state has annual inspection requirements. In fact it’s a minority of states, only 14, and it looks like the inspection requirements have been reduced in recent years, such as some states exempting new vehicles for a certain amount of time or only requiring inspections for commercial vehicles. Both states I’ve lived in had annual inspections and I just assumed it was a thing everywhere.

  • xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles

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  • I remember similar guidelines being taught when I was in driver’s ed in the US, but I don’t know if there were strict laws around it. If there are laws I would guess it is a state-by-state thing.

  • What's the best thing made from potatoes?

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  • Loaded French fries?

  • xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles

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  • This was something I realized when we drive to my wife’s parents. It’s 2,000 km each way from our house in the US to where they are in rural Quebec, Canada and we usually drive it twice a year. The charging times sound long, but even with our petrol car most of our stops end up being between 15 to 30 minutes anyways between fueling the car, taking the dog to grass, taking turns going to the toilet so the dog isn’t alone in the car, getting food and giving me a chance to eat so I’m not trying to drive and eat at the same time.

    I think the real challenge of electric range anxiety is that it still takes planning, at least in some parts of the US. There are areas on our route where it might be 100 kilometers to the next fast charger, and there’s no guarantee that all of them will be working or compatible with a car’s fastest charging speeds. We don’t really have to think about where we’ll get gasoline; there’s pretty much always a station, often several, within the next few miles. Usually if we’re waiting to stop for fuel it’s because we’re looking for the best price, looking for a place that might have decent toilets, and/or might have an appealing food option along with the gasoline. That’s all manageable in electric but might need some advanced planning, and many American drivers aren’t used to doing that kind of route planning in advance anymore.

    How many cars in Europe can drive 1,000 km without stopping anyways? The only ones I can think of offhand are large American pickup trucks intended for towing large trailers long distances. I wouldn’t expect to see them in Europe.

  • Do you still use compact discs?

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  • Rarely; I think the last time was a live CD to try Linux on an older computer

  • How to talk to anyone, and why you should

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  • I’ve been feeling over the past few years that the increasing removal of human interaction from our lives, including random conversations in real life, has made it easier for people to be more divided and view strangers as an “other” instead of a fellow human.

  • Is the Memory Shortage Intentional?

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  • So this is the strategy of putting 4 houses on your properties in Monopoly and never upgrading them to hotels because that way there are no houses for your opponents to buy

  • TIL that Radon is a radioactive substance which can cause cancer. Colorado is full of radon. The average level of radon in Colorado homes is 6.4 pCi/L, which is equivalent to 200 chest X-rays a year

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  • Even in my state I don’t think it’s required everywhere. In the mountains and the Piedmont there is a risk although it’s not common, but I think in the coastal plain on the sandy soil it’s uncommon. IIRC for our state the more granite in the ground the higher the risk. Having a crawlspace foundation is also better than a basement or a slab foundation because it gives a space that can easily be ventilated before the gas enters the living space of the home.

    I think I saw a study once that granite countertops may offgas some radon. Maybe there’s not enough granite in the average home to cause concern.

  • What are some Ship of Theseus bands, where all original members have been replaced by someone new?

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  • I feel like it’s less of a band and more of a performance group, though

  • Have you ever solved a Rubik's Cube? And how?

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  • No, I never had the patience to figure it out. I think I’ve seen a video or two with solution algorithms but did not have access to a cube to try them and don’t really remember the ways now.