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> the real answer might very well be a musician or filmmaker, not a writer. Walter Disney, obviously. Well, it will probably take at least another century for the fact to hit.

> make a lot of money off of interest Looking at the debt numbers (something like 150 billion over 90 days delinquent) that may not even be the case, if you cover unpaid defaults w…

Bullshit guilt-tripping logic. Just the 150 billion from "interchange" (merchant fees) would be enough reason to fund the 15 billion (estimated) rewards. What next, supermarket cou…

And car engine control software. Bosch developed the "experimental" ECU software that VW used in the Dieselgate vehicles.

> In September 2008, the first Android phone went on sale—the HTC Dream, Excursion: HTC would later sell the HTC HD2 with WindowsMobile (a predecessor of WindowsPhone), which could…

Not far. Not even MS had the clout to impose a third alternative in phones, and it was needed. And WindowsPhone was actually a good design for user interaction, with the exception …

> my identity got stolen I've seen it argued that "identity theft" is the way businesses with poor fraud detection make that your problem. I.e. there's no "identity theft", there's…

Not Mary Berry, then. Or anyone else who ever baked a cake. Or cooked, really. I hate sugar in food, but some recipes use sugar to balance acidity (e.g. tomato ketchup).

> imagine the possibilities! Space elevator? Does a 35,786 km "strand of [slug-tooth] spaghetti" hold its own weight?

"They trust me, the dumb fucks"

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> this form-factor "It must be pointy". The photo is so murky you only notice the shiny propeller cones.

It was erroring out 12h ago.

Toss P.K. Dick's "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" at that essay. (Hey, sixty years of publication. And it may not even be the first "implanted memories" story around, googles…

> scale will solve I have a bad feeling about this, and it's about us, not AIs ... (I fear that we're #$&@%!## most of the time, and just oblivious about it)

They're also missing the winter bit, where an AC heatpump needs three ou four times less energy than a resistive heater ... oh well.

You're doing it wrong. I bumped into this 'Short Guide to Russian literature': "Russian literature consists of suffering. Either writer suffers, or protagonist, or reader. If all t…

> cared for the environment It wasn't "more CO2" grade, it was "more NOx" grade. This in urban settings will actually kill more people with respiratory problems. VW's "clever hack"…

> Europeans from 5am-2pm PST Well, the EU is putting the kibosh on that PDQ. The precious stays at home.

Read. Guy knows what he's doing.

Do you have anything on those TRW floating point chips that used to titillate junior engineers in trade mag advertisements before that?

For example, an adder's total delay depends on a carry chain. If you have N 4-bit slices, the last slice has to wait for the carry to propagate through all N-1 previous slices. But…

> pedestrian cars. That's an interesting turn of phrase ...