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Just my observation that adults are regressing into child like behaviour as each generation takes over. Less people taking responsibility for themselves, more people hiding from th…

It was a fun suggestion but going with it would have reminded me of the world exemplified by the movie Idiocracy. We are heading in that direction with the likes of adult colouring…

Facebook doesn't just keep you in contact with old friends, it encourages you to stalk their public facing persona. There's none of the mystery and personal discovery that creates …

> The only thing I can think of is that the developers use the shiny new hardware and it runs okay for them. I think that was one of the problems with Google+ in the early days. Th…

I think the best power supplies are those commissioned by big manufacturers to go with their hardware. The HP Touchpad's power plug being a good example. These brands don't want a …

That's a big reason why private businesses are better than public ones. There's no need to push for unsustainable growth at the behest of busybody investors.

Mozilla lives on money from the ad industry, so in a way they are all part of the same system.

Clementine comes from an place where software is aimed at all levels of user - without sacrificing expert features. If your idea of UI and UX (I don't know) is the modern trend of …

Exactly. Amarok was one of the few pieces of software I looked at and thought, from a feature perspective... that's perfect. Was so glad Clementine appeared on the scene and rescue…

I'm not that bothered by them personally, but I would rather see these international taxi brands gone. They take away income and entrepreneurship from local economies. The world is…

I have gone through a similar phase. Got rid of social media, switched back to a feature phone, am reading real books, listening to music on physical media, using cash where possib…

The thing that bemuses me about TfL is a similar public run arrangement was recently encouraged and proposed for another part of England. It was blocked at the last minute. London …

Yeah, cycles of moral panic that were fuelled by the media when they had nothing better to do. Nowadays though, it's fuelled by outrage culture on social media, so the result is mo…

Our railway system was built by competing railway businesses with lots of inefficiency, it was nationalised, made painfully efficient (Beeching etc) and franchised out to businesse…

The way I do it is by creating fake deadlines in my head. I know I am not going to achieve them but it's like milestones without the extra baggage of planning and it being boring.

I find Breitbart's comments interesting, it's pretty much an outlet for people who are discouraged from voicing their opinion in standard news outlets. Though I don't go there on p…

Pretty standard modus operandi for technology start-ups, 'disrupt' the scene (AKA enable illegal/unlawful/unethical things). Then years later, officially notice you've been turning…

Yeah, some religions are more benign than others, to put it mildly. I'm not religious personally, but I find it interesting that a lot of these religious movements practice stoic v…