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The car of the future fixes many of the problems, and it fits right into existing infrastructure. Think autonomous electric single/dual occupant taxis (2+ per lane). We are still a…

It's not settled. These links are annoying.

"You know, stuff we needed but didn’t necessarily have a budget for. So, when this money comes in, it’s considered extra" Except municipalities explicitly write expected seizures i…

I can't get past the fact that the software, in order to interact with the 3D world, will be expensive and cumbersome to make. Also, people (your income) born before AR tech genera…

The message has an equally probably of decoding to ANY message. You essentially have no information to work with.

I enjoy driving each morning, and it makes me happy. Sports car, windows down, cold air, a warmed up engine. Few things are better.

Can I get a less intense summary?

Will this era be known for a glut of optimistic but worthless technologies?

Sounds like Riddley Walker.

The post is negative because the productivity posts are bad and make HN worse. The alternative is to post ANYTHING other than "These 5 weird things are making you procrastinate" an…

Multithreaded code is more difficult to write and more complex to debug by any objective measure. "There are difficult multithreading scenarios, just as there are difficult scenari…

I think the difference here is that the goal is more ambitious (100% diet replacement). Ensure is explicitly a dietary supplement. The marketing, cost, flavor, and nutrient profile…

The problem of radioactive waste... Let's put it this way: In exchange for clean, constant, domestically sourced, almost unlimited energy for an entire year, each person must dispo…

It's easier and cheaper to make a shotgun with 2 pipes, an end cap, and a screw. I'm not exaggerating the simplicity. http://www.issafrica.org/armsnetafrica/sites/default/files/2..…

The car may be expensive, but covered rear wheels are not expensive.

Another analogy: Mechanical watches. There are no good reasons to own them besides just liking them.

We shouldn't be able to patent any idea just by running it on a "processor and memory". I'm convinced that trademark and copyright gives us all the IP tools we need. Patents can ge…

If the US is going to field these weapons, we need to be cool with Russia and China tossing around non-nuclear ICBMs- because that is what this is.

Seems like LiveJournal did the "followers" thing first.

The option to enable/disable the nav bar seems ridiculous until a website disables it for you. The option is there to re-enable it.

No. It's just a matter of having advanced options or not. Each level of customization should be progressively more hidden but more powerful.

I guess I'm tooting my own horn now, but one of the original design choices for my game was to allow player-hosted servers. I don't want my game to die when I stop supporting it. M…

Ideally, you have 60fps AND motion blur, for a picture most approximating reality. The fancy games have motion blur. Any game without motion blur is going to show momentary disjoin…

No, because there is no single ideal price for anything. The ideal price varies between customers. Real world: Customer A thinks the $14 pizza is overpriced. No sale. Customer B th…

You're right, because no successful tech companies have ever been started by programmers, with programmer-designed UIs.