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This is so true. Just like people keep on waxing how innovative Tesla is, when in fact electric cars were thoroughly explored more than 100 years ago so Tesla is mere copying the i…

> The U.S. keeps these plants so they can make nuclear weapons very quickly I highly doubt that. The US has plenty of nuclear weapons. As do Russia and China. The only reason to ne…

> But also imagine all the wannabe journalists that would just do character assassinations on long-dead people revered as heroes That's an easy one. Pretty much anyone of notice li…

Mocking is still legal in the West. But not for long. Mocking anything but white men/Christianity creates huge uproar today. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018…

> In the private sector, they'd have been fired and probably legal action levelled against them Tell me again one meaningful action against a data leak in the private sector. I'll …

This is a losing game (think halting problem). This exact scenario was played by antivirus software versus malware in the 90s/00s. The antivirus was trying to figure out if the bin…

And look at that height... This would never be approved in SF, ruins the local character.

They is overwhelmingly used for plural. See how the wikipedia article starts: > They is the third-person plural personal pronoun (subjective case) in Modern English. And only after…

SEO is one reason, but the reduced attention span of today's people surely is another. People just won't bother figuring out what a "mystery title" book is about.

This is one thing that worried me during the Fukushima disaster, they were quite concerned about the safety of the responders and many things were delayed until they could figure o…

Gives a new sense to "fake news" Now we need a robo-reader who reverses the article back into the source data.

Well, none of his code is public. Furthermore, on his blog he wrote about a lot of topics - economics, history, politics, crypto contracts, but not even once about a programming to…

The problem with Szabo is that nobody was able to locate any sort of code written by Szabo - ie, he doesn't seem to know how to program and the first version of Bitcoin is way beyo…

I worked at a software company where you were not officially allowed to bring your own keyboard/mouse, but the unofficial policy was that they would look the other way. However the…

Short reenactment of the final decision to postpone for one day this at today's ceremonies: https://youtu.be/mSL9NJ8WJMM?t=3808

This is truly one of the best long-cons in the tech industry history. Invest 10 years into creating a browser and get the whole industry and it's developers to love it, push it and…

With everybody now having an iPhone and Macbook, they don't feel that exclusive anymore. So they need to up the game, to show they are still a luxury product. A $50k computer is ce…

Does it have RGB? For that price it better have one RGB led in each of those holes.

Kind of a sexist convention. I see no boys in any pictures. Are they saying slime is a "girl thing?". That's reinforcing damaging gender stereotypes.

If it only were that simple. Airbus in particular has a lot of systems which PREVENT the human from doing things. One plane actually crashed because the prevention system disabled …

Google is famous for measuring everything. If you think they did this without extensive testing/polling/... you are naive.

> why does what your father did have anything to do with where you should live We can extend that argument further. Why should a human enjoy such privileges on this planet compared…

> A benchmark for me would be a game that can handle a MMOPG like eve-online I don't think they managed to connect Excel to their game environments yet.

There are scientists who argue that what the mitochondria does is fundamentally cancerigenic on a long enough timeline, so in a sense, yes, everything we eat is associated with can…