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I wonder if perhaps it's a good thing that rich people can pay to use handicapped spots. We could just think of them as "priority parking", and the regular priority parking ticket …

You don't get to keep waiting for a prediction to finally come true when it doesn't come with a deadline. It already didn't happen despite all our labor saving technology so far (w…

They're not great on paper. They ignore some powerful personal human motivation that we know exists. Perhaps you should say "They're great for robots that can be programmed to thin…

I don't understand what is being optimized by minimizing the product rw. Reducing w reduces the number of digits, but how does reducing the radix r help with component count? Surel…

windows also comes with the well-hidden "Problem Steps Recorder" that takes a sequence of screen shots whenever you click something. Doesn't do the text overlay but it's already in…

Next, I hope somebody hacks the Tesla Model S low-battery-capacity model to provide full battery capacity without having to pay for it. After all Tesla is using evil DRM to force p…

It's hard to understand why spoofing would be illegal. If it fools traders who are relying on buy orders to judge the price, then why don't those traders just accept spoofing exist…

"The text files were created by manually keying the full text of each work, based on millions of digital facsimile page images" !!! This is not silicon valley. I wonder how they en…

It's quite tractable, stop voting for the same two parties that keep causing the problems over and over again. The trouble is, most of your voting neighbors don't mind so they perp…

> Use of force against people who commit such crimes as selecting their own sexual partners, being seen in public with members of the opposite sex, texting members of the opposite …

No, the solution would be to get insurance against high insurance costs. This already happens with medical insurance. If you're already sick your insurance costs more. But if you g…

It's unfortunate that languages are so monolithic. You want to make a language that does concurrency differently and you end up having to design date format strings! Sad that we st…

It's not just autocracy. The US government is quite aggressive in shutting down websites that spread information it doesn't like. They also sometimes go further and arrest and impr…

It might not be practical to send information as light. You'd need a powerful transmitter so your signal can be detected among the noise from stars. It might turn out that sending …

It's because most scientists and the organizations funding them are not interested in advancing our knowledge of nature so much as looking like they're advancing our knowledge of n…

When you're making the decision yes, I agree it's risky and perhaps arrogant, but with the benefit of hindsight it's clear that it was successful in this case. Not in other cases, …

Not every case was bad. It was extremely successful in New Zealand with hardly anyone killed (relatively speaking), a peace treaty quickly signed and the quality of life brought up…

Works great in Chrome 39. I can see the noise but it looks like part of the style and not distracting at all. I love how it creates fear! They come at you when your back is turned.…

No need to be melancholy. That glorifies killing. Do you have the same sad feelings for the Paris gunmen that were killed? There's no fundamental difference between them. Remember …

If they really had no great alternative, and the chain of reasoning was that clear, then traders would have anticipated it and it wouldn't have caused any major problems. Since it …

It sounds like the intention is actually much better than net neutrality - it claims to be trying to encourage a more competitive market. Proper competition would make net neutrali…

If the only problem with abolishing time zones is having to look up a table to know when to call someone, then perhaps it's better to abolish them. Most of the uses we make of inte…

The recent European cookie law was close to that and got laughed at by tech people. Poor Europeans are constantly being asked for permission "Can we store a cookie on your computer…

I doubt most people care. This isn't going to drive customers away. The only way it'll be stopped is if they're legally forced to. For example, see the history of cookies themselve…

You might have missed the instructions - "Imagine it's 1994".