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No matter how inexpensive an area is today, how long do you think that will last when it suddenly has more $200k temp workers than longtime residents? Those workers often have to p…

That's fair, I guess sometimes people have different definitions of "100%".

Some of the best engineers that I've ever worked with have been quiet types who don't particularly want "work mates". They work fine with people, can parse small talk and bring a p…

Recess helps. But most people would rather go home an hour sooner instead of spending an hour in the middle of the day at work futzing around.

Exactly. Why on earth would we want to replicate such a terrible system online? We should be reforming our current credit agency system, not empowering it with a new mandate of jud…

So what happens when your ID gets hacked and reused for fraudulent activity? Would you have to submit a dispute with the internet credit agencies? Maybe join a class action suit ag…

There's a pretty good movie which lampoons the modern office and explains why people "quiet quit". It's called Office Space, and it was released in 1999. >It's not just about me an…

All well and good, until someone decides to lob a missile at a satellite and make a little Kessler syndrome, or launch missions with no reentry plans from a nation that hasn't sign…

The effects punch below their weight in those games, though. I like to call it "Unity Syndrome", but it applies to any widely-adopted engine. Well-made video games focus on the exp…

Well, it prevents you from communicating with the sort of people who will blithely participate in these sorts of destructive systems. More seriously, it's like an act of civil diso…

Probably about where we are with pedestrian/cyclist safety. In NA, lack of safety regulations is resulting in massively increased ride and hood heights, which is going to kill a lo…

Users keep using. Why would the companies change? If you object, don't click "I agree" to terms of service that you don't feel comfortable with. It's like a prisoner's dilemma. You…

Probably the average tenure of C/VP-level sponsors for such a project. By the time the gains would be realized, the muck-a-muck will have moved on to a different company. They tend…

Seems like a gimmick. For some years, we've had cars with HUDs that project things like speed, blind spot warnings, traffic signs, and GPS directions onto the windshield. They're g…

Maybe Apple hasn't proven it on iPhones, but these sorts of satellite SOS devices are pretty common. Modern ones can bluetooth to your phone to let you text over satellite. Sounds …

Moonshot programs are what create demand for the sort of R&D that Dupont did to bring kapton to market. Polyimides date back to 1902, but you couldn't buy anything like kapton tape…

Huh? Spinoff technologies from the space race are everywhere, to the point that they seem mundane 50-70 years after the fact. Polyimides like kapton are a good example.

Who said "and"? Nobody tell it about "not".

It's a website set up to manage camping and hiking reservations for national parks. It just didn't turn out very well. Difficult to navigate, bloated JavaScript interfaces, poor di…