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Compassion and fast progress: choose one. The "catastrophic " healthcare subsides all other healthcares around the world - 99% of new drugs and medical equipment are first introduc…

Send them off to the private prisons ...

You have no idea what you're talking about. The relationships between Tensent and the party are very very complicated.

Uber is amazing. Some people want to get humankind back to the caves ...

Sorry, I wasn't aware there's triple secret NDA on the fact that Google's main business is advertising...

They can't be louder and prouder about it, because they know at one point they'll have to compromise it so that Google own apps can track the user.

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A couple solutions: one man offices, working from home.

I do have two houses. They are in cheap places and the total mortgage payments are what I make in 3 - 4 days.

Simply not true. As en extreme example the human body is assembled by bio machinery, how do you disassemble it without breaking it?

Yeah, those are good. Many cheaper laptops still have replaceable RAM, WiFi, cell modem, SSD, optical drive, battery. A few models still come with socketed, upgradable CPUs. These …

Close the libraries down, same as public baths. I don't want my taxes being wasted on those people.

They can make you (or your customers) solve a captcha before each API call.

Don't think so, it's too small.

The schedule thing sounds like a fair deal, if you allow human input the people with "people skills" will benefit at the expense of those that are socially awkward.

IMHO if a person is over 30 yo and an employee, he's either stupid or lazy or both. Investing and not loosing a lot of money is not simple, it takes intelligence and effort.

Travel can be extremely cheap nowadays, e.g. budget airlines on weekdays, last minute deals from the big tour operators. Working one 10 hour day a week will allow for way more trav…

Assume without thinking that conspiracy theory equals false -> you watch too much TV.

What types of programs are impacted by the lack of low overhead synchronous IPC?

This person switches threads :) But in practice, I guess this legacy architecture adds a nanosecond or two to a thread switch. Is that a big deal? How many switches does a desktop …

Or bribe the phone company and get direct access to the mail box.

I was planning to switch to data-only SIM anyway, don't need no phone number or voice mail.

But if CRISPR cuts off a single DNA sequence, surely the repair mechanisms won't damage a random gene far away. My very limited understanding is this paper is reporting widely spre…

Don't think so. Originally the CRISPR mechanism was discovered in bacteria, which only have one cell. It doesn't make sense for bacteria's anti-virus system to kill it's only cell.…

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