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I hope people give up on this 1950's-era mythological obsession with trying to realize a cartoon's flying saucer pods because of the potential for energy waste/climate change, publ…

Facebook's accumulation of a pattern of making major, surprise changes that are mostly about benefiting money-making, directly or indirectly. Super popular but seemingly more and m…

I tried FB in early ~2000's because I had a @stanford email, but after a coworker's wife started tagging people and editorializing randomly, it was clearly more of a liability than…

Definitely. I also came across that video via a shout-out from Forgotten Weapons: https://youtu.be/EUxxLZz_2NU I hope Dr. Richard Wolff interviews Youtube Union and IG Metall, beca…

Yeap. Emperor's new clothes / Not Invented Here / reinventing the wheel / new is "better" than old - churn / kitchen-sink design-by-committee ( cough OpenSSL cough ). This happens …

Renault-Nissan (Motor)-Mitsubishi merger with Fiat-Chrysler will create a megacorp or "alliance" with almost all terrible vehicles. ^- Something I hope Scotty Kilmer might say http…

Could've used this 30 years ago when I was forcibly-bused across town to a "magnet" school 1.5 hours in each direction (3 hours of busing total). Getting up a 4:45 am and not getti…

FitBit 2 Charge display spontaneously failed about the 2-year mark. Searching around, I noticed many others have experienced the very same issue and that they're not standing behin…

Certainly, there's too much magical thinking, but what the heck is "hypersane?" Is it an absence of conspiracy theories, foolish beliefs, and word-salad? Maybe giving too much atte…

San Jose native. It hasn't been for many years. Have you ever been to the south-side of Chicago, Detroit or Baltimore? Those are violent cities. San Jose isn't.

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I would find a better (defensible) business model that's better than a restaurant that anyone can open. ER's have zero intellectual property and anyone can start such a business fo…

My 2 cent manifesto: Manufactured insecurities mutually-reinforced by peer pressure ("Keeping up with the Jones") is often why. Don't do what you don't want to do; don't be pressur…

I'd like Xfinity unlimited 1 Gbps ISP/unlimited landline/260 channels + Hulu + HBO + Netflix + Amazon Prime + Youtube Red + Spotify for one order of magnitude more. That I could ge…

What should be nearly free and ubiquitous is obscenely extorted. Welcome to underprotected vulture cannibal vampire capitali$m with a Verizon lawyer heading the FCC.

What's interesting is that the absolute error converges to ~0.5399705049968784% (or a floating-point type or constant imprecision were introduced).

Smdh. The "paper" author may be a fossil fuel shill, crazy person and/or attention-seeker. It's too bad we essentially need a climate change "snopes" to debunk Cato-style nonsense,…

On the post, if Linus is referring to low-end Xeon and workstation non-Xeon lacking ECC, I think it's completely idiotic. Nearly all infrastructure should be baking in ECC as stand…

I wouldn't read it as a false-dichotomy us/them conclusion, but to the literal facts: Philipines, DRC, US, many countries in Europe are becoming hyperpolarized.. with the intent an…

Yeap. The world is flattening as many countries end their brief (and ever briefer) socioeconomic growth. Happenings in one place become not a first-/third-world disparity, but a ne…

There's a lot of homeless people who can't work as-is; the disabled, unsocialized and mentally ill need support and minor accommodations to try to work and to keep it. Some have su…

Exactly. This 10^32 times. It's affluenza, "victimhood"-exploiting, pseudo-disability BS. My elderly and frail grandparents never had a disability placard, yet their neighbors had …

Harkens back to the 90's dot-com era. Good for the customers while it lasts, I guess, but not good overall.

This reminds me of a (possibly unrelated) incident involving a C-130A that broke up in flight while serving as a fire-fighter water-bomber. It turns out the original material 7075-…

Oh, the days of the ASCII Code page 437 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Codepage...