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I love these incredibly simple and elegant classic technologies. GPS is one of the best. It seems like it would be incredibly complicated and mysterious, but it's actually quite straightforward.

I'm working on a presentation now to explain how GPS works to second graders. If they understand it, I'll take some photos and do a write-up.

Worth noting that many people who run from the police also have fake or stolen plates.

I think you have identified the crux of my objection to this piece. The OP is mostly talking about cases where a truth about someone is so much more widely known than other truths about them that it becomes overwhelming in perception of that person.

The problem to be solved here is not the liability owed by the reporter of the truth, but rather the way in which our reptilian brains fail to balance that truth against an undoubtedly bigger picture.

I'm not sure where the threshold is for spending. I have an account that was spending over $500K/yr on Facebook ads and we were blocked by AI with no recourse for over 6 months before we finally found a human who was able to reverse it.

This is great! But also, in case you missed it, click back to the homepage. There are a bunch of other equally great diversions.

A bunch of US zip codes are for PO Boxes only, so this seems to stand a strong chance of working, at least in those places.

So tired of people on HN disparaging Warren G Harding.

Seriously, though: several of the Trump campaign's architects (Paul Manafort, Roger Stone) got their start in the Nixon administration.

You say inefficient. I say mysterious. Who's to say the server always returns the same thing?

The only way to find out is to scroll infinitely as the domain name suggests. Beware, your scrolling may have been finite.

r/whatisthisthing might be your friend here

NYTimes digital revenue is mostly subscriptions. Other publishers with lesser brand names are much more beholden to Google.

This (ironically). I often start enforcing a "no pronouns" rule for myself and others when conversations and concepts get more complicated. It (the rule) is awkward at first but makes a big difference in mutual understanding.

Counterpoint: a friend in Brooklyn was mugged for only around $10 but almost immediately after ran into street police on patrol. They jumped in the car with him and summoned other local cars to catch the robbers successfully.

The police want to catch the bad guys too, but after 8 hrs has passed, it becomes virtually impossible to succeed.

Fair point. If you prohibit everyone, including walled gardens, from targeting based on user behavior or user data, that seems like a plausible solution.

It's a purely regulatory solution, though, not technical as the top level comment suggested :)