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Human civilization is at least tens of thousands of years old(just considering what modern man believes) and always valued gold more than anything for both store and exchange of va…

Filtering research grant application based on personal/organizational beliefs is serious thing that can alter understanding of science. Highlighting these problems in application r…

I would call it weird! OP surely received similar advertise that led to this post. Why would someone advertise such an old tech now?

To me buses and truck market seems niche as compared to personal cars for companies looking to build electric tech to drive them. Number of state departments and businesses willing…

I totally agree with your core point. We definitely needs to be more responsible with how we design next generation computing chips. We need to think about power consumption especi…

It's rare to see someone go above and beyond a benevolent hobby to build a complete solution to a people's problem.

Nice humor :)

Initial cost might be high but this cost would be slowly return as you save on electricity bills. Also, all this equipment is not perishable and you can still re-sell at good price…

Longer school days might help kids with stressful home environment but it also poses risk to bonding b/w kids and parents especially for parents who are able to provide and are wor…

I completely agree. There are very few paid software for which we don't already have a FLOSS software that can compete with it. Linux users are normally good at finding FLOSS alter…

I guess what meant here is that one should never make mistake of assuming that a highly reliable system can be built. As you start to approach near 100% reliable system, you start …

That's great. Now next thing that needs to be solved is to make this tech available for general public use just like computers are these days. Problems that are waiting to be solve…

Situation here is of real world which is different from software world. Real world equipment can degrade/develop faults after use so its important to inspect them before each job(e…

Why is this data such a big deal? Didn't US should already have enough medical data of its citizens for study?

I believe is the latter point that's more important for China. First point is simply true for all nations that are trying to sell something.

Unfortunately, we live in a highly competitive/growth demanding times where companies chose to invest resources only on areas where they see good returns. This means that for-profi…

I believe one additional reason law enforcement don't want to get warrant is because they don't want to leave any paper trail when they track someone as that would expose the terri…

Yeah, almost all the time its the inclination of an individual towards a new language that becomes the driving factor of migration rather than the actual shortcoming of current lan…

Its mostly these minute details that gets overlooked during code reviews which leads to bigger problems. Bigger design mistakes rarely happen.

At least numbers looks humongous at first glance with it. :)

Wow! He is really want to suck as much profit as possible out of his position. No wonder people like him makes so much money.

Fact that they went to a great length to secure his position means that it really matters. Maybe the relationships that he has build over years with foreign nations is too valuable…

Theoretically, this rule can also be gamed by taking all votes by influence of power.

I totally agree. One fine example is of dictators of world who became threat to people because of no checks on term.

His examples are mainly western but his theory applies everywhere. It's important to understand conditions when 'minority rule' applies. It's only applicable to situations when min…