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imagine the thing has no wheels. the wind provides an energy source. now imagine a sail cart. you can put a dynamo on the wheel and extract power now imagine a sail boat sailing cl…

in theory we could accomplish great things by spying on everyone but even a small amount of abuse of such tools is unacceptable. I dont think we can stop the mass spying indefinetl…

With animal intelligence all involved parts are optimized. Remove the thumb and catching a tennisball becomes many fold as complex. A self driving car is an attempt to make carts w…

conmunication with the mothership should be clearly defined

in the 80s an american tourist watched a full movie on bbc and was confused as hell by it running start to finish without a single ad. "If i buy the video or go to the cinema i sti…

apple is right, we should ban rentseeking on app platforms entirely. Let them charge fees for actual products and services like code reviews and phones. Then they should deliver se…

i havent looked at this in depth or even glazed over it but it seems the system of punishment scaled up to prevent repetition should work just fine? you punish the crime by the ill…

prepaid without data bundle i just managed to pay 2 euro to almost send a message. it ran out just in time to not send anything

$1 for labor > For the effect to work, the cost disclosure must be voluntary, not forced (e.g. by regulation). A logical conclusion from the study.

i have the opposite, my mind just phases out and its as if the ad doesnt exist. i only found out when i got angry i couldnt find the download button on the download page and a frin…

Here the meaning and intended meaning align somwhat poorly.

The most stupid part is that if they exist the company must use them.

technically we can have every cent tracable and accounted for but that would give to much power to productive people.

Im still of the opinion that closed source should be illegal. How stupid is this idea?

the symbolism is the problem and you need to account for it if you desire to cater to other ppls perception. You can also not care and just put it the way you think describes somet…

if they write (i mean publish) something worth reading people will eventually find their way to it. a more sensible idea would be to let the publishers populate the ad slots next t…

free sometimes is just what you dont want

that extension that silently clicks every add was funny. Why was it not allowed? Seems anti-competitive to me.

maybe thats it? consider all gambling gambling and move it under gambling laws? I know, it sounds nuts. But it is certainly possible to make an advertisement service that doesn't i…

no, government has to add its sinister components secretly while pretending to serve the public. A corporation doesnt just do it openly, they are often legaly obligated to do so. G…

i remember suggesting they make just one in stead of one for each product. the gmail was way ahead of the rest at the time

thats such lovely example of working with what you have

you cant use 5 seconds of any music without permission but the internet is trying to sell my long dead mum underware multiple times per day. i cant wait for this industry to be abo…

i just play at the highest level and lose pretty much all of the time. it does greatly improve my analysis but you grow a fear of attacking which makes a boring player. beating the…

for example apm is such an inportant ingredient in many commercial games that any designer has to seriously consider including it. This is why for example starcraft 2 lacks mind bl…