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Some sites are a combination of content (blog, products etc) and a login area with a complex UI. A SPA works well for sophisticated user interfaces but is overkill for content that…

It seems to me like most websites will get completely rebuilt on average every 5 years or so and if they haven’t been rewritten, they have become a ball of mud of outdated CSS and …

Or even for ships and planes. Whats more likely in the long term, that cargo ships will be powered by batteries or that they could be powered by a compact fusion reactor?

Intel would agree with that - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-Tock_model

Energy diversity and energy security are important. On the one hand, global trade can strengthen relationships between nations and make war less likely. On the other hand, look at …

ISPs could at least give customers warnings that they have been compromised. Not everybody will heed those warnings of course...

Release candidate to me means "We think this software is pretty much done. Does anybody in the community think otherwise?". You don't expect new features or breaking changes. That …

Manchuria is close to Beijing and is a relative easy area in China for armies to travel through. It's not mountainous or particularly forested/swampy. Japan invaded through Manchur…

You could insist that addicts use the government-provided drugs in a clinic. Don't just hand it to them.

Can someone explain to me why they can't just put a huge net around/under the rocket so that even if it does tip over, it can be safely caught and recovered?

I'm Irish and out of interest I looked up the area of Hokkaido to see how it compares to the island of Ireland and they're actually pretty close - Hokkaido is 83,453KM2 with a popu…

"When you tell other men that you were at this battle, everyone will think you are cool, wish they had been here too and question their own manhood!"

If you put '/' at the end of the internal address it will resolve it correctly. Although I switch between both browsers a lot so I don't always remember that trick.

I think there's some value in the goal of having a common interface and set of features across desktop, mobile, xbox, server. People would like that. Microsoft haven't achieved tha…

Livestock produce methane which is a greenhouse gas and contributes significantly to global warming.

It's ultimately unknowable but I think it's possible to have a very secure system. You just have to take a holistic approach and look at everything in the stack from top to bottom,…

The problem is that languages and especially libraries change too frequently. A doctor can learn the name of every bone in the body and that knowledge will for the rest of his life…