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> healthcare were far cheaper In the 60s people would often die from ailments that are now solved with routine outpatient procedures. Cars were cheaper too but it turns out all tha…

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Slackware used it in the late 90s IIRC.

What was the breaking point for modern British society where housing unwieldy and potentially hazardous electrical equipment in your living room seems like a completely normal and …

So the federal government should be responsible for every rinky-dink water well in Bumblefuck, Minnesota? > failed to anticipate not only these infrastructure breach They've been w…

I've met info-sec / vulnerability researcher types that were egregiously reckless, like plugging Raspberry Pi's into the production network kind of thing. Public sector has always …

Yeah I meant the default passwords are simply the cherry on top of already egregiously poor security.

Sadly this instantly became a political football, with the states pointing fingers at Iran, but Trump was not wrong in this case. This is gross incompetence at all levels — IT malp…

> I have a lightning ...which are going for $50k-$75k USED. Did you forget to amortize that number or is it included in the $20? Will you pay off the loan in the year 2326?

Ignoring that your math doesn't add up at all, whenever someone tells me how much money they are saving per month by switching to EV, they always conveniently leave out the $35k-$8…

> 60 floor tower, and the three elevator shafts I don't think I've ever seen a 20-story building with less than 4 elevators at a minimum. I've worked in low-rise office buildings w…

There is a non-insignificant segment of the population that would have been better suited and employed as painters or HVAC technicians than for their chosen careers. Some software …

I can't offer praise for controlling a mechanical thermostat with a poorly-implemented software thermostat. If this was a remote control knob it might begin to make sense, but it i…

The author's primary lament is clocks that cannot withstand power flickers , yet every sub-$10 mains voltage clock from Walmart and Target that I've ever seen will take a 9V batter…

Japan has the 2nd highest median age in the world. Old people in Japan is neither new nor a phenomenon.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's proba…

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I assume your references would state that you're an unhinged lunatic?

None of this matters really. This criminal mastermind got caught because he did everything but sign his name to the crimes while holding two pieces of government identification in …