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This is definitely not for people who think there is one to many of themselves.

The same was probably said when machines started making furniture, cloth, harvesting wheat, etc. A desk made custom by a human to your specs is cool, beautiful, and life giving for…

A printed list in her purse has certain beneficial properties that a password manager does not.

A big problem is bright screens and displays inside of cars at night. Your night vision never kicks in so you need extra bright lights to see, thus these bright lights that only li…

Blame the chicken tax.

"The economy has absorbed automation before; agricultural employment collapsed from ninety percent of the American workforce to two percent and civilization continued." This automa…

Dark Unknown Matter would be a better name for lay people to understand what's going on. I'm no cosmologist but isn't it just a placeholder for something that gravity interacts wit…

Agreed. My brother is a painter and has commented, "At least in the past cheap tools were one-time-use, now they are usually zero-time-use. Built so poorly they don't even work out…

German General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord (a high-ranking army officer in the Reichswehr/Wehrmacht era): “I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid…

Would like to see such a system in action. Have any examples? Most go horribly wrong. Early United States was pretty good but having a western frontier with "free" land was probabl…

It would be great if everyone felt and was in a major way in control of their life. Equal before the law and not much law. The people who want to create "equality" by preventing pe…

What does inequality even mean? Everyone must be identical? The idea of removing inequality is dystopian.

"deeper shared community goals and aspirations" When one communities deeply shared goals and aspirations conflict with another's (or subgroups) is when you get war and violence. Th…

I think these space projects are great, can create much good will, and give people dangerous things to do that are worth risking the danger for. But war, inequality, and climate mi…

Any scientific paper that does not document how things were done (methodologies) is basically worthless in the search for truth.

Wow. Electricity prices went up 8x in Britain since 2005. How can industry there compete internationally?

Lots of tech gets discovered, is heavily patented, and then 20 years late,r when that large first round of patents expire, people start working on and developing the tech.

Yes. If you send an email from a protonmail account to a gmail account that email is in google's system. Same if in the other direction. Would anyone using protonmail not know this…

I would like to read this website but the font and colors are so poorly selected (read and grey for most of the text) that I'm not willing to struggle to do so. I guess my eyes are…

It probably could have been true if regulations were not written that said if your nuclear power is going to be cheaper than other sources you have to spend on safety features unti…

Self driving cars for hire (Waymo, Tesla, others) can be that point-to-point system that is affordable. We will just have to build tunnels to deal with the increase in traffic. Hop…

"in people who don't need it from a marginal consumption standpoint". We need the rich to spend more money. There are plenty of cool ways to do this. Build a mile high pyramid on a…

Agreed. This would get rid of borrow against gains to spend tax free. But also just get rid of the income tax, it is the worst way to tax, and do a land value tax.

Over the last five years Tesla has made a profit of about $41 billion while BYD has had a loss of about $13 Billion. Would rather be the Apple of electric cars than always selling …

Tesla's biggest factory is in China.