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I don't believe that humans can really sense it on their own. But there was/is a group of "body hackers" who would implant a small shard of a magnet into their finger tip to allow …

Of course Chinese entrepreneurs can innovate. That being said, the CCP has been making it more difficult. As of this month every single mobile game needs government approval at cos…

Yes the statistics suggest that older, less educated voted more for Leave. But aren't those also the ones who have been hit hardest by Globalization? Isn't that the big divide we'r…

That's unfair, it wasn't 2% but 52% of the voting population.

It is still an issue on a practical level. Last year of the 160K asylum seekers in Sweden less than 500 found a job. That's of a country which has a population of less than 10M. Ho…

How? The UK didn't leave NATO. It didn't go back on any ideas of collective defense.

I haven't read too much into the topic until a week or two ago but I've seen those exact arguments coming up time and time again. Given how close it was I think remain shot themsel…

Right, but let's imagine there is a vote to abolish congress and it goes through. Wouldn't it be logical for many people who understand congress and how it works try to figure out …

There has been a mood that the EU has benefited many of those who were more educated and better off while many blue color working class members of British society were left very mu…

Passive, maybe, but active? I'm skeptical that there's any submarine in the world which can avoid active sonar. Further more the difference between a nuclear and diesel electric su…

They may say that, but I cannot fathom building a fully functioning carrier to be cheap by any measure. Chinese planners cannot possible expect for their artificial islands to last…

The problem is that the same massive range of area denial weapons and cruise missiles also puts fixed assets such as airstrips and bases as far as Guam in jeopardy of attack. Thus …

Airfields are the quintessential sitting ducks: high value targets with have a fixed position that could have coordinates recorded long in advance of any action. An carrier on the …

Were carriers truly obsolete then why is china rapidly building it's own? It already has been building forward operating bases in the South China sea. Why invest in building a new …

4 out of 6 complaints here all help reduce the size of an electronics product. In fact some of those decisions led me to chose an Apple product over a non apple one. Locked down so…

But I think it's very important to note that Elon surrounds himself with the very best domain experts he can find. He also has a reputation of deeply engrossing himself in a topic …

If you could manage a ratio of 5 big losses for one massive hit you'd be quite a successful investor indeed :) Microfludics itself was still a young science at the time Holmes foun…

I am not familiar with the actual laws involved in this kind of case. If it were proven that a Theranos tests harmed a patient and that Theranos willingly obscured the accuracy dat…

I don't see an issue at hand of not investing in big ideas. In fact it has become clear that what has been invested in was ideas alone with insufficient substance. But for healthca…

As long as HIPAA rules are followed I don't see an issue. Further more I would argue that the doctors in this case have a moral imperative to inform the public just how harmful the…

Thanks for the explanation! I haven't been following fab process news for some time so I've been very much out of the loop.

Does anyone know why video cards have stayed on a 28nm process for so long? It's appears that a significant factor in this incredible leap of performance is the process change, but…

That is astoundingly horrifying, especially the Class 1's which were distributed for over five years.

I never realized just how lucky I was to have been born when I was. I can't imagine building embed devices which aren't running a very simply super loop or an ARM RTOS.