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> Would new applications become available? In the 80ś-90ś I thought of software as prototyping. If we keep a healthy separation of [shall we say] mission critical application and e…

It is a wonderful piece of writing.

Make it into a product, put someone elses name on it then promote it with the employer with straight face. Could even include an email exchange where you list the missing features …

Children and animals don't drive cars. If we forget for a moment that they are not at all important and assumed a level playing field the child would need to give up playing outsid…

The episode involves a species that talks by referencing stories by title. It cant be translated without knowing the stories.

We are under a smog alert atm. "caused by high ozone concentration" https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/smog-alert-in-force-throughout-n...

I read 80% of Texas having air conditioning used as a political argument to ignore the climate.

Just like we didn't have proper steam locomotives until the patents expired.

Didn't combustion engines and electronics go though the same cycles?

I doubt we can get places if the reader of this comment ws to produce thoughts about what I think about what the author thinks psychologists think. I'm not comfortable with the ide…

pondering flatness I had this idea to paint the small hand onto the dial then get rid of the big hand and replace it with a virtual one using a Moiré pattern painted onto the glass…

yes, this is exactly how I see it. To expand the concept a bit, when we ran into the martians our behavior towards them defined their behavior towards us quite dramatically. Humans…

I don´t know much about nursing specifically but it is actually interesting to account for how many customers served per employee and how many there are at the bottom of the organi…

The way the story ends with "then you export it" has me somewhat confused.

I used the spice rack hammer for the dog house because I don't really know how to make other hammer factories and the one from the tutorial (that I cant seem to find how) only make…

There is a good bit of factory work where human labor is reduced to quality control. You look at a conveyor belt and wait for the defective product to come along. Machine learning …

And before that we had woningbouw verenigingen . Non profits ran by their tenants. Something like: God fearing church goers wouldn't stand for hard working newly wed couples not ge…

Oh, I missed that one. It seems to me that income tax based on rent would be more privacy preserving.

40 years ago some family homes in NL cost 35 k guilders or 16 k euro. 2 floors, 2 bedrooms, front and back yard.

I don't get how people can keep saying this. Is it that people are told banks lend out money from depositors in school? Anyway, if you sign a contract that says you shall pay me ev…

Elixir? I've never used it but reading about it I kept going ohh, ahhh and wow! In stead of my standard: ** ** * k * ** * sh?!?

Where is the rich text? We had multiple colors for single characters in the 80's

Being last in Media Trust is something to be proud of.

In NL they sell feta and next to it a product called white cheese. It's not the same and much cheaper but in [more complex] meals where the cheese is not the dominant flavor you wo…

A chess master will see the best move right away then spend his additional time further analyzing it. First you have to ask yourself if you are sufficiently experienced with the to…