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Hush, the city is unaffordable enough already without a surge of VC valley types.

5 years from now: content is only available on expensive ad platforms, everybody is back to pirating content. 10 years from now: rightsholders get desperate enough to let you purch…

None of those systems are autonomous, people still handle the decision-making. Also, AI does not mean faster or more advanced compute; the fact that it requires so many cycles and …

Too bad that Apple works so hard to strangle 3rd-party software in the cradle. A device like this would be fantastic with a full desktop environment. Many desktop apps have solid t…

Are you certain that AI is used in any of the tech that the US is sending to Ukraine? It's mostly cold war era equipment, designed around the '90s or earlier. Modern AI also seems …

You could probably get 2W from a wide over-ear band in direct sunlight. Maybe that's 2-4 hours per day, with indirect light scattered around the day. If you get say, 2W*6h=12Wh/day…

Interoperable car parts are a terrific idea. I like reliable old cars for this reason. Sometimes things need to be replaced, but those things are usually cheap and easy to work wit…

Bad idea for mushrooms. Some of them are insidious - you could feel fine for several hours while your liver is destroyed, and by the time you feel sick it's too late to do anything…

Most plant ID apps have a disclaimer saying that you should never eat anything that you use the app to identify. Seek reminds you every time you open the camera. They're mostly int…

It's strange, isn't it? In the span of a year or two, the zeitgeist shifted from "online stranger danger" to "you don't exist if you're not active on [website]". Even stranger, few…

>What man has broken man can fix. Counterpoint: Nuclear disasters like Chernobyl. Some things just need to fix themselves over a long timescale. If we screw up badly enough, humani…