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Even more amazing is that there are still a few 19th century steam engines being used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corliss_steam_engine#List_of_o...

Quite a few conferences now require that experiments involved human subjects be reviewed by an ethics committee of some kind before being carried out. Universities have such commit…

"One expects that judges will sort this mess out" Who expects that? Judges failed to stem the growth of militarized police forces for decades .

"it seems to me that it's better, or at least more efficient, to assume everything is copyrighted once it has been created rather than requiring everyone to file a form with an ass…

"Illegal digital downloads disrupted everything, and cut profits substantially" Only because a decade beforehand the RIAA decided that instead of working on ways to monetize the In…

"labels really do have a bad situation here" Are people expected to feel sympathy for these companies? Have we forgotten that people turned to big centralized services for their mu…

In other words, legalizing MDMA and regulating the production process could help to save an endangered species. (What, we can't turn the propaganda around?)

I can't help but to be amused by the irony of the NSA systematically weakening computer security and swooping in to help the FBI when American companies become victims of foreign s…

Just like SWAT teams are used sparingly...

He's a little narcissistic, but limited it to talking about his being a "perfect gentleman" and things like that. There is also this part: "I am Elliot Rodger...Magnificent, glorio…

It is a mixture of psychopathy and megalomania. He expresses a belief that women exist to provide men with sex, and his anger stems from a belief that women have been given the pow…

Not all Jews are Zionists and most American Zionists are not Jewish. Stop referring to a "Jewish lobby" when you mean an "Israel lobby" or "Zionist lobby." The term "Jewish lobby" …

This is not offering you a discount in return for your viewing targeted ads, because nothing here actually requires you to view ads in the first place. This is more like saying, "P…

The history of mother's day is rather informative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day_%28United_State...

Actually, I think coroutines are easier to understand in higher-level languages that support call/cc -- Scheme, for example. Yield is just another continuation, no different from r…

"They remove the gatekeeper for financial services" Hardly. Even if you ran your entire business on Bitcoin, you would still need to find an exchange when the tax man came around d…

"Something that just came up to me: why is making porn movies for money legal, but prostitution is illegal?" The law is not a strictly logical system (this is usually a good thing,…

Not that I want to that guy , but... "If this president is established and takes roots"

I think Comcast, owner of NBC Universal, has little ground to stand on here. Streaming is an inefficient use of the Internet that is popular only because people are too terrified o…

"Evolving business strategies" like fighting new technologies to maintain a decades-old business model ? Interesting perspective you have there...

It's more like asking your neighbor to fetch two burgers, and then give you one of them. Except that your neighbor has a burger-multiplying-machine that can keep giving you burgers…

It is worse than that. "15 Mbps peak speeds" is actually "15 Mbps bursts." I am fine with getting less than my maximum speed; I understand that the connection is shared and that my…

It is actually rather simple: * Netflix cannot make money if individual Internet users cannot connect to Netflix and stream their movies. Netflix brings in a lot of revenue from it…

Yeah I stopped reading at that point. An ISP with a history of interfering with certain traffic and lobbying against net neutrality is not a supporter of an open Internet at all, l…

Maybe HBO should embrace an innovative distribution model, instead of clinging to the obsolete premium-cable-channel model. HBO itself would have been impossible if the media estab…