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I vaguely remember an index for the number of earthmoving machines per capita for a given country. It was a really good indicator for productivity. It doesn't seem like industrial …

I'm in the accelerated testing group and I was moved from Mail to the new Outlook a couple of months ago. It's better than Mail for Windows in my subjective opinion, but it was a b…

I guess at some point we should expect a Sony SpaceStation.

Does the EULA cover leaving a 1 star review? It's a kind of retaliation.

It can be lucrative and fun, until you're confronted with the trail of human wreckage in its wake.

In e-commerce I've noticed that customers that request to be removed from the mailinglist and/or to have their info/account be deleted often forget about ever using the site. Then …

You can mitigate planned obsolescense with recurrent billing, like monthly fees.

I would love to use this for pairing a product with the correct image by decoding barcodes in the image.

The contention that mice are the most intelligent beings on the planet seems more plausible every year.

Sites could provide a cookies-manifest.json with the entities they provide data to. Then the browser could show a standardized cookie banner, if needed. The user could also disable…

My mind immediately went to the artificial 4-year lifespan of the Nexus-6 replicants in Blade Runner.

This makes me curious of how the gradual change from gas- to charging stations will affect these places. I could see clusters of charging stations gathering in the same place and c…

I'm thinking that it could work as an emergency rectal oxygen enema for astronauts in distress. It ought to be very compact compared to pressured gas. Just push 'oxyjet' and don't …

Governments and central banks are doing it to try to continue the cash economy, which has been slowly dying for some time now (a death recently sped up by the pandemic). Cash has s…

Hello cm2187 what's happening. I'm gonna need you to go ahead and not recommend movies while at work. So if you could go ahead and get back to it.. that'd be great.

When we pay with physical dollar bills, it's an exchange of unique notes with their own serialnumber. A digital currency would be the same thing, but electronic. Imagine using GIT …

The current system just keeps track of inventory. Like when a warehouse inventory system says "15 Honda Civics currently in stock" it doesn't mean digital cars. A digital currency …

This is usually what's missing from people criticizing Curtis. It's a form of superficiality where people feel that they don't need to look further into the subjects before drawing…

One thing to keep in mind is that birds generally don't follow human law, and will certainly find creative ways to source materials from stores, people's pockets, cars, homes etc.

I have YouTube premium too. Even though I probably watch more Twitch streams than YouTube, I still wouldn't consider paying for the Twitch equivalent because YouTube has so many us…

Here is an image that shows how the cosmic web is usually illustrated: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5mBKPZgrdD6ebdRtV8NEDZ-970...

Unboxing comes to mind. It seems manufacturers are putting an astounding amount of effort into making the ritual of opening the packaging for your new gadget a long series of satis…

This made me curious about how a business can defend itself if a competitor hires people to leave negative reviews.

I tested the phrase "go to kyle's channel on twitch" and it actually went to twitch.tv/kyle - which I found impressive.

Snowpiercer Most people see this movie as a very on-the-nose example of class struggle. But I see it as a commentary on how we humans build and interact with the very system that w…