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Unrealized futurism predating both in magazine form was Popular Mechanics and Popular Science hype of Moller skycars as the original goat, and virtual reality being a close second.…

Vaporware hype.

Just another brick in the wall.

Ideally, only sufficiently sturdy homes should be allowed in risky areas. The absurdity of the current situation is subsidizing risky behaviors of people who choose to live in haza…

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our…

Procedures make money, and a nonzero fraction of dentists are all about selling more procedures and add-ons that offer negligible value because they want $$$.

It goes back much farther than that as it's a practice of successful business people since time began. One much older example of it in written form would Napoleon Hill 1928 "Lesson…

Reminds me of a plot of device of the 90's movie Shooting Fish where they were scamming businesses selling an AGI computer but were actually controlling responses with a human in a…

While some people argue for verbose, semantic-meaning variable and function names, I believe taking this to the extreme is counterproductive, especially for internal code that coul…

No, you're being unreasonable because that's not the goal at all. The goal is to minimize variations while still allowing the possibility of variations that traditional distros lik…

Insurance and regulatory hurdles are far higher than contracts selling future electricity customer purchase agreements and likely to doom almost all new nuclear projects in the US …

> This term has lost whatever meaning it ever had if we're using it to refer to binding contracts. If a technological solution is optimistic and remains vaporware possibly forever,…

I'm still a little worried about the toxicity of graphene-based products that they might turn out to be another "asbestos".

It should supplement and facilitate improved office dynamics and less interruptions rather than supplant interaction with proscribed, transactionalized objectification of people. N…

Jerks and dorks disrespect others, with the differentiator being intention. If they don't get the hint, then it's probably time for a teachable moment or assertion of boundaries.

This is an excellent idea. A similar approach, simpler, and cheaper solution for a non-open cube/offices environment is a microcontroller-controlled Andon stack with color-codes fo…

The gold standard deep and certain vulnerability remediation requires A/B test exploit sample code. You're really going off into the weeds about other concerns rather than covering…

Worrying about dying by meteor impact is a waste of life because you can't do anything about it, and so is this. Internal locus of control has boundaries of what is and is not wort…

Anything can be stolen given unreasonable dedication, but that's not the point. The point is to deter by making it not worth messing with. Unlocked QR wheels will be stolen or vand…

This is a "Unabomber"-style prescription to the problem. The problem isn't shared libraries and the solution isn't static linking everything because that's wasteful for repetitive …

Unlocked QR wheels and seats get stolen and vandalized. QR should generally only be used where transportation space is limited or for stationary security, but otherwise prefer perm…

Rim/v-brakes just need proper adjustment, replacement pads when worn, and clean rims. They're also much easier to control with finesse than disc brakes which tend to lock and requi…

Back in the day, even on a low-end steel Miyata mountain bike, I had to have QR wheel and QR seat post keyed locks because of theft. They consisted of an epoxy-coated offset plate …

This belongs to a category of rabbit holes of the human condition that are entirely pointless to argue or worry about.

The reality is that it's a slim gradient cabal of uber rich vs. everyone else. Everyone who isn't obscenely rich should seek solidarity to end the tyranny of and oppression by this…