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Network just keeps getting more and more relevant every year. Every time I hear the "We're in the boredom-killing business!" rant, I think of all those dead-eyed fake-smile influen…

Actually, I was thinking of my own country, Canada. There's still occasional small outbreaks, but aside from some limits on large gatherings and some requirements to self-isolate w…

Short term? No, definitely not. Short-term economic pain was going to happen regardless of policy. Stay open and let the virus spread like wildfire, or shut down and ship helicopte…

I'm not talking about mask policies. I'm talking about "get employees back to work at all costs to save profits" policies.

With garbage HVAC systems that were built half a century prior by the lowest bidder and largely unmaintained since then.

Wall Street has decreed that capitalism must go on at all costs. That requires workers to show up to work. That requires that workers don't need stay home to watch kids. And that r…

And a Starlink network would mean an instant global Martian internet.

There's been some really interesting ideas for a new generation of telescopes that Starship's cargo capacity could enable. Telescopes on the far side of the moon are the classic ex…

Mars could be the key to opening up the entire solar system. It's close enough to the sun for solar power to be practical, it's proven to have the mass amounts of subsurface ice an…

When I conquer the world, I'm going to make June 2 a global holiday in honour of Clair Patterson. Despite his not being a medical professional, he's easily on par with Jonas Salk, …

>If the above don't work, we could be looking at mass unemployment, unbearable private and government debt, and more civil unrest Given the fact that there's never been a successfu…

>Serial Experiments Lain: Godly programmer Alternatively, a godly program.