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I would say it worked until the world changed in such a way that old systems were entirely dismantled. But even in previous eras that system of wealth preservation only worked when…

That is a good question. And I'm sure it's because the reality isn't much like what we perceive from TV and movies. And cartels and crime organizations are far from omnipotent. The…

During the dotcom bubble thousands of companies were way over valued, where are they now? Mostly gone. Amazon survived and evolved. They actually were the exception. That doesn't m…

Well the wikipedia synopsis is pretty kind in that regard.

Well that's only a problem if 6GB isn't enough, and for the time being it's more than plenty.

All airlines do, because they have decades of passenger data to work with and can estimate how many people won't show up, how many people will take compensation, etc. They have pol…

You can't fix people.

>I'm convinced that since citizens don't know their rights, that the government doesn't think we care about them, and uses that against us when we try defending them. It's the idea…

>Solid state drives still cost about 10 times more per gigabyte I think you should go shopping, because the time where SSDs cost 10x as much as an HDD is over. When a WD Blue 1TB S…

It's more expensive to run three schools. And if those three schools don't each have enough students, they're going to be underfunded as funding is largely based on the number of s…

Lawyer'd. Or at least let's not pretend that this 21st century version of status symbol nonsense is really any different than what kids have always been doing. Some kid has a SNES …

"Hey kid, how does it feel to want?" If they want it that bad, let them go mow lawns or shovel driveways or whatever. You know, like kids have often had to do when there was someth…

I'd agree, except that Fortnite is hardly the originator of this sort of model. Blizzard has been doing similar things for years. And once upon a time Team Fortress 2 being dubbed …

Way more people use Steam than Epic Launcher. The oldest Steam accounts are 15 years old now, people have been using it for a long time when it was largely the only game in town. P…

You might be surprised what people consider love, and how all sorts of other beliefs get intertwined with it. IE you have strong sacred long held beliefs that your female children …

Oh I dunno, fascination with a device ahead of it's time is always there, even if it lived a good life. And some people like history, or specific parts of history.

Fortunately, when you're dead the living will do whatever they want and you're too dead to care.

Depends on if you care more about the benefits of getting at your enemies than the consequences of legitimizing criminal behavior and/or the inevitable "friendly fire" incidents.

There's a million ways to be. One of them is good for some group of people.

Android is already used in the majority of the market. It's just that android phones aren't under a single corporate umbrella like Apple phones are.

If you're on modern treatments life expectancy is near that of a non-HIV person. The biggest problem is modern medicines aren't available to everyone across the world. So it's stil…

If you want to interpret it that way. If you have some idea of cosmological scale and time frames you're probably willing to read the headline in those terms. After all at 8,000 li…

I think that's why crypto-currencies will be doomed. Because too many people see it as something they can maybe buy for a pittance and at some point in the future cash out for a 5,…

>We have email, which is basically instant, free and worldwide. Why can't we have the same for payments? Only time will tell if such a major shift can happen. Ever had a free email…

Obviously he's referring to the current value compared to the high last year. You know where the current price of bitcoin is over 75% less than it was last year... Any time somethi…