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GFC? I'd say the dot com bust. It was the first time markets rewarded pushing buttons at that scale.

Think of dropping a water balloon onto a pin. It pops instantly, but the water (like the temperature and overpressure) takes a while to dissipate into a puddle.

The past 40 years we went from pinball and arcade machines, to most men playing some sort of game on a personal device (phone, console, computer etc). I could see the next 40 years…

Cutting someones breaks requires physical access to the hardware. Changing: if (brakeDepressed()){ engageBrake(); } To: if (brakeDepressed() && currentTime < '5/6/26 4pm EST'){ eng…

I would definitely argue the opposite, that China is the larger threat. They want control of Taiwan and are building way more capable hardware than Russia has.

What if in the time between initialization of cosmic_ray to False, and the time this if statement executes, a legitimate cosmic ray flips the bool bit representing cosmic_ray?

The cynic in me things the Dems take the legislative branch next year, curtail executive power but are unable to undo anything and then win a massively nerfed executive position in…

I'd prefer they have housing somewhere to live and not in the streets! Just not in my neighborhood, man that's a mouthful, maybe NIMNH? Doesn't really roll off the tongue though...…

You're moving the goalpost now. Here's a 200k house: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1404-36th-St-N-Birmingham... Here's how much they pay in property taxes ($1270): https://eri…

I think you're vastly over estimating property taxes. Texas is less than 2% on average assessed on home value. I'd be curious about your example of what "most mortgages" payment br…

Not in relation to his body which is the concerning interaction. Though contact with a 150mph tire would have had similar if not the exact same consequences as a 300 mph tire.

>>It's not intended to provide a family with a living wage; Maybe not family but definitely the individual, FDR on minimum wage: Ultimately, he hoped to mandate that all workers wo…

Interesting that the reference linked is in reference to must-carry regulation. The tiktok scenario is the opposite though? Must-not-carry that content! I suppose Uncle Sam's sword…

Or a boggle-esque set of dice rather than a phone app.

Any of the VR Virtual Desktop apps are certainly done in UnrealEngine or the like, but I think it's really just a virtual display for your computer and the 'desktop engine' is stil…

If you do this, the clocks will be in the same place, it would have to be opposite acceleration profiles to get them moving away from each other.

The same thing will exist for people in 2010/2030 because of computational photography filters/algos.

Can't use the same PIN as a hacker would just add myhackurl.com/login to your vault and see what the PIN came across as. I think you'd also run into issues with password length as …

> the autopilot was programmed to go in a straight line and at an intersection decided to steer into a crosswalk. Agree this is a weird and very concerning bug. > Not to mention th…

> (Problem #2 requires kopecks to be divisible.) Does it? Did I fail at problem 2? I got: Bottle + cork = 10 Bottle = 9 cork bottle/9 = cork 9(bottle + bottle/9) = 9(10) 9 bottle +…

I would bet this as applicable as the Facebook posts of my parents friends something like, 'All my content on this page is mine alone and I expressly forbid Facebook INC usage of i…

The 2.6 million is the choice of books available. Like baskin robins has 31 flavors but only 5 of them sold more than 100k scoops.

Maybe, “don’t be evil”.

For the copy paste disable issue, you can usually paste into the address bar, and then select and drag the text down into the field. You may have to type and delete a character if …

If you pay everyone more that gets expensive quick. Seems like it could be cost effective to give almost rock bottom raises and just replace the people who aren't 100% into it.