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Know thyself. The first step in being your better self. This pithy piece of advice has been repeatedly given throughout history no doubt predating its being chiseled onto the Templ…

7 years, or rather, more time than you expected is correct. Generally, success happens slowly. To succeed, just don't fail. If you keep your job, muddle along with your side busine…

2nd law of thermodynamics is what makes destructiveness so costly. It is much easier and cheaper to destroy than to build or rebuild. The Trump administration is devaluing the Unit…

I still use Google desktop on a dedicated computer to search our local network. Its been running since about 2008.

It's ironic that machine intelligence is advancing during an era when human intelligence is declining.

Matterport, Inc., a spatial data company which digitizes things and parts of the world. Like Denver's Union Station https://matterport.com/discover/space/Jbp8eZ5kqg3 The inside of …

Tipping risk of the Atlantic Ocean's overturning circulation, AMOC. Keynote by Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf, Co-Head of Research Department on Earth System Analysis of the Potsdam Instit…

I think a voice more like Harvey Keitel's would be better!

For reference, The Pomodoro Technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

Just because an economist puts a name on an economic trend like "secondary post war depression" doesn't mean they understand it. The economy goes up, it goes down, it goes up, it g…

I hope FBI is backtracking the serial numbers on these components and finding the diversions to Russia. Serialization similar to what the FDA mandates for drugs should be implement…

No. Works fine for me. You may be experiencing a local problem.

I guess I better stop using Bozos_Gismos

The Stephan Zweig quote, "And only delusion, not knowledge, brings happiness." is ringing in my mind.

Concise as someone like C.S.Lewis could write. Moral and ethical philosophy.

Rail isn't practical for some routes because the highways are maintained by the government but the tracks are maintained by the rail carriers.

It seems that the science of ecology developed 200 years too late.

Is an MR headset an improvement over a paper bag?

Before the 19th Century, black powder was so incompletely combustible that firearms, despite allowing a huge amount of windage (the difference between the diameters of the barrel a…

Every time you throw one off a bridge.

I think there have always been a few aggressive, angry-looking cars. Case in point the 1950 Buick Super Eight https://imgur.com/a/OvwFNQa I wonder what is the oldest angry car.