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“What have the Romans ever done for us?”

I’m going to buy a WinRar license with all the money I save.

“Apple might be implementing…”. Could you get back with me when you actually know?

But even MORE impressive is the current raptor engines cost between $1m to $2m each with a target cost of $500k when in full production. The F-1 cost an inflation adjusted $85m-$10…

These weren’t true Marxism. When me and my communist buddies take over next time you will see a real people’s utopia. Not like the last 47 times. I promise. Word of honor. Everyone…

This is an easy fix for Boeing: budget for more lobbyists and campaign contributions.

Exceptions: yelling fire in a crowded theater and TikTok.

Two giants of the buggy whip industry join forces to counter the railroads.

von Neumann also advocated for an immediate, surprise U.S. nuclear first strike on the Soviet Union: “If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today a…

You might enjoy the Tom Wolfe book, From Bauhaus to Our House. In it he tries to explain the observations you make. Very lively, funny writing and you know he is on the right track…

"and said that service should be available in a couple of months" Thats telcom speak for "the check is in the mail".

Meanwhile, SpaceX valuation has increased about $35 billion over the same time period. At his current net worth, Musk will be able to underwrite Twitter for the next 3 centuries be…

No. Since there is a lot of disagreement about this in the surrounding comments, I just watched 20m of an old Russell Brand YT video. As of a few minutes ago there were no YT ads i…

Siri rarely disappointed me because my expectations were always low and I trained myself on how to talk to it. But now after some remarkable experiences using GPT-4 I find I’ve los…

> including current faves Austin and Miami Austin has 2.57 murders and nonnegligent manslaughters per 100K. Same year, SF has 6.35 per 100K. So SF is twice as bad as Austin. Your r…

When automation, computers and offshoring were hollowing out the jobs of factory workers, miners and the low-to-medium skilled all we heard was "Learn to code!" from the laptop cla…

Sorry about this, but I couldn't resist: GTP4, rewrite the above message to be less brusque I hope you don't mind me sharing a different perspective for the sake of discussion. I m…

I agree and have always wondered how people with these extreme views think modern society would function without roads. You can't build (or maintain) a house, a hospital, a factory…

From the Wikipedia link at the top of the thread: “The screenplay was written by Kubrick and science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, and was inspired by Clarke's 1951 short story …

The film — written by Kubrick and Clarke — came first. The book is a novelization of the movie. So watch the movie. It’s unlikely you will be disappointed.

Would it surprise to learn that among the worlds nations the US ranks 76th in the number of military personel per capita? North Korea is #1 with 306 military personel per 1000 citi…

Not true — it takes 5 minutes of effort and about 40 cents to make very good bread out of salt, flour, yeast and water. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=13Ah9ES2yTU

I had a lot of trouble cooking on a halogen electic -- pulse on, pulse off -- stove and all those problems went away when I got an induction. For years I thought I was a terrible c…

Except that the space shuttle solid rocket boosters were recovered and reused. From Wikipediea: "Out of 270 SRBs launched over the Shuttle program, all but four were recovered – th…

Will Prowse did something similar (much smaller scale) on his YouTube channel last year. He set up a 6000 watt ground mount array in about 40 minutes and discusses the trade offs h…