Pray, prey... Same difference...

Because Amazon has already demonstrated that they can, and will, simply delete a book from your account if/when they want to?

Ironically, they did it for the book "1984."

I'm an original Pebble backer, and am also now using an Amazfit (the Bip). I'd also pay for a Pebble successor. Really, I just want all the functionality of the latest smartwatches, with the months-long battery life of the Pebble. I think e-ink is the only way to do that, although advances in battery tech or maybe some algorithm for turning the display on only when it knows you're looking at it (not just when it moves a certain way) could do the trick. My Bip does last about a month on a charge (but it doesn't have anywhere near the functionality that I desire).

You should do the tiniest bit of research on this one.

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https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Every federal department has their own OIG. Every federal department has their own contracts, although sometimes, particularly to take advantage of economies of scale, other departments will "piggyback" on contracts from other parts of the federal government.

Obligatory: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F2825%2F

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Yeah, if I could get an Impossible burger at the same price as a beef burger, I'm ordering the Impossible burger every time. It's close enough to real ground beef that you can't tell the difference in a burger (or chili or many other ground beef dishes).

Unfortunately, Impossible burgers still carry a premium price, and it's not one I'm always willing to pay even if it benefits us all ecologically.

Yep. The two products barely compare. Impossible burgers are MUCH more like real ground beef.

And it's not like we don't have text that is human readable and machine readable, if there's some part of this process that is automated. We've had that tech for decades.

I mean I didn't RFA, but wouldn't a printed date have the same information and use less ink than a QR code? Couldn't you offer the same discount for milk with printed dates that are closer to their best by date? I don't see how adding a smartphone in the mix adds anything to this, rather it just complicates things.

Exactly. Upgrading to WiFi6 would probably fix it, but this new standard would definitely fix it.

You need a FAT PIPE to maximize your porn surfing, but there's something to be said for a fast internal network, too. Right now, WiFi is the bottleneck that prevents me from quality streaming in part of my house that doesn't have a wired connection. We actually use a sneakernet connection (download stuff to a thumbdrive and walk over and plug it in to the Roku) to watch movies in that room.

There's a massive difference between being connected, and being able to overcome a massive cascading failure. There's a reason why we have separate grids, and it's a very good reason.

Just because Texas has their own grid doesn't mean it's not connected to other grids.