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You missed a couple: - real whiteboards are just better - real whiteboards aren't as good as screen sharing But yes indeed, nothing new has been said on this subject for years.

And apparently they are now doing a face-heel turn and joining the lockout party. Hopefully mine lasts forever, even though I keep feeding it eBay toner!

Stephen Baxter's Phase Space . If those short stories, especially the ones with Reid Malenfant, grab you, then read the Manifold series. If you find yourself wishing it was more Al…

> Can't leave that bread overnight Is that a climate thing? In my (temperate) experience, bread lasts for several days, even in summer.

> So 79% of theses houses weren't sold? Likely they were bought by people who already have houses, as investments. Your logic, that over-expensive housing won't sell at all, only h…

Not nearly blatant enough if you ask me. I'm still waiting for the Tom Cruise sequel Top Gun: Top Marx .

I think it's about avoiding having them running than turned off at the socket. And I have a countdown timer on heating devices that could be left on and won't automatically turn of…

Meanwhile I did a fire course and the firefighter running it said "never leave applicances on over night or unattended" (rule 2 after "always close doors"). Not that I always do no…

Even in the UK, which has quite stringent electric regulations, you can get two-conductor cables with a plastic earth pin (which is always required even if you don't need grounding…

I'm always amazed that these products can be so accurately locked to an exact flavour for years, regardless of the inputs, which, being plant or animal matter, can vary a lot natur…

Good to know the venerable "credulously repeat what the charismatic technology man said" school of journalism is now well into its second century of utility.

In the vein of fan theories about imaginary events, a favourite of mine was that James Bond died in Blofeld's brain drill chair and the second half of Spectre was hallucinations as…

He didn't have more knowledge than we do now, 100 years, trillions of research dollars and millions of engineers later. He had a very amazing and intuitive sense of electricity, me…

Isn't water one is the canonical examples of a natural monopoly?

Much "journalism" isn't journalism at all, it's just content aggregation and maybe a paraphrasing. In the case of anything remotely technical, this will probably also include dumbi…

I assume it's only a matter of time before someone plugs something similar into Wikidata and rather than using AI to generate facts statistically, look the specifics up where known…

0N0E, maybe (Null Island)? Depending on if latitude and longitude count as coded or not. Otherwise "Burj tip" could be quite good (centimetres).

The Martian "timeslip" in Red Mars works exactly kind this, if I recall. I assume that's a reference to the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name.

Especially when servicing interest on debt (the I) isn't nearly as cheap as it used to be, unless the debt is locked in at a lower interest rate. Even if it is, but the term ends, …

> It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single species in possession of a good technological base and a will to survive, must be in want of a interplanetary kinetic astero…

Workers always earn less than the value they make for a useful business under capitalism (and that's before taxes, which don't necessarily require or imply capitalism). There's alw…

> create much hard to capture value. This is pretty key. Imagine a train line that allows commuters to get to work. Trains are expensive to run, so the actual cost to get a commute…

As Stephen Jay Gould said: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and …

I'm curious if (and if so, how) these startups think they're going to survive when the supertankers of the large auto companies complete their miles-long turn and start production …