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It has been a decades long journey getting here. There are so many contributing factors it is hard to even know where to begin. The most important thing to remember is that about h…

I think the best advice is use something you are comfortable with. But the second best advice is hopefully that isn't WordPress. Yes, you can do it in WP, but you would have so man…

My wife is from Germany and one of the weirdest things for her in moving to the US is that the power goes out.

Back in my freelance days I had a client who refused to pay. I took him to small claims court and won. Actually collected the money. - small claims court is very easy and relativel…

This doesn't seem like that cynical of a take at all. The US is terrible at infrastructure projects. I feel like you would never go wrong betting against them. Or at least betting …

My newsletter site recently started an affiliate program. We quickly got picked up by a few nefarious Facebook groups that specialize in scamming affiliate programs. They blasted o…

Exactly. If growing up on a spaceship was all you ever knew, it wouldn't seem like a problem. It only seems like a problem to people who grew up with a lot of choices on Earth. Mos…

I just think it is a case of thinking small. A few key advances and all the problems are solved. For example: - Increased lifespan making the trip possible in 1 generation - A holl…

Tons of respect for KSR but this reads like a treatise on why airplanes will never work. https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-flight-imp...

Never underestimate the value of tried and true solutions!

This is a really hard lesson to learn and it takes most people (myself included) many tries to learn it. From reading your post, it is super clear that you understand the lesson-- …

in the spirit of the article, hopefully you can plug it in at home to your direct solar!

Exactly. 10 electric cars with 20 mile pure-electric range will have a larger impact than 1 electric car with 200 miles.

I'm not sure your comment makes sense in the context of the article and my reply. The whole point is that batteries are expensive.

I feel like this is one area that requires a less extreme approach. It feels silly to forego batteries completely, but equally silly to put 100kW of batteries in a car. Most car tr…

In the US, I think it is more likely that we will regulate automobile speed than guns. I thought there might be a joke here, but sadly, this is just true.

It's really hard to "accidentally" not make payroll. This shouldn't be something that sneaks up on you. If you feel the founder deserves the benefit of the doubt, I would suggest r…

I think most engineers need to be both. In most situations at least, you are deciding on engineering time vs non-engineering time. Meaning, if I can build something in a day that "…

Can it be done while making $5000 per week online?

This is an interesting perspective. My takeaway from the OP was not "depressed" in a clinical way--and I certainly could be wrong there. But I thought it was more a case of being y…

I guess my question is: why do you want to go back to school? It seems like you would get a TON of practical experience spending that time at Shopify. In most situations having a f…

I agree completely. Hilarious example. But, hell, if a product's pitch is "you'll feel like Tony Stark or Captain Picard" it will probably be successful.

usually the more important information in a comment is WHY the code does what it does.

I don't feel comfortable speaking for ALL vegans, but in my house, we gently move spiders outside. We would also be totally fine with killing a mosquito. My general theory is that …

Fake meat is generally aimed more at meat eaters than people who are already vegetarian or vegan. If you already like tofu and seitan, you probably aren't trading those in for the …