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Yes, this is kind of like "of course the remote is in the last place you look, why would you keep looking once you found it?" A little more than a year ago I was working on a very …

Thank you for mentioning this. Things have to get to their destination somehow, and if you replaced these ships with their equivalent carrying capacity of another form of transport…

This and "disrupt", please.

Ah, thank you. I was starting to get a bit of vertigo on how prescient this was, I felt like I was reading The Machine. Now that I know it's satire it makes a lot more sense.

Thank you for saying this, it's exactly what I've been thinking since the start.

Maybe that's true, but the fetishization of 'disruption' is getting a little ridiculous. I'm certainly downloading this.

To be fair, based on some of the other statements I've seen attributed to Churchill, I wouldn't be surprised if he had actually said that.

I recall a case where the courts did not agree with you. I can't remember names or many details, but the gist was that some guy realized that one of the pages was taking an fdat ar…

My grandfather said that he went broke twice in his life: once when he was sued, and once when he sued someone else. Lawsuits are expensive, and if this game isn't making enough mo…

When I get into conversations about what space combat would really be like (if it ever even happens), I usually cite this book, and summarize the combat in one sentence: "The ships…

I've never used a piece of software from HP that I've thought was of any quality. We use several of their enterprise development tools where I work, due to an ancient contract and …

The slack action from a mile-long train is one of the most awe-inspiring, bone-jarring manifestations of raw power I have ever experienced. The first time I felt it, it established…

Absolutely true. I think when people say that robots are going to replace low-skilled workers only the uninformed are imagining an entirely self-sufficient factory that only has on…

As I said in my post, it's anecdotal yes, but I know at least two people who are in this situation. Take one of them for example: She can't afford to eat every night. She can't get…

If college really isn't for you then so be it, it's your decision. But dropping out because these famous people did it is really stupid. For every one dropout who turns into Gates,…

I knew a feminist in high school who wanted to photocopy my draft papers so she could sign up too. Definitely not legal, but she was absolutely adamant that if men and women were t…

s/class/common human decency/g I think a lot of what you're talking about has more to do with an apparent inability of some people to act with any sort of common sense around other…

It doesn't look like anyone in this thread is denying anything. Most of the comments here are about how amazingly accurate every single one of these is.

I think I'm out of the loop a bit on the chain of events. Last I heard, the FCC were the ones holding back the tide by classifying ISPs in a way that prevented them from limiting b…

You don't need to be overpaid to buy expensive image-"enhancing" crap, you just need to be very stupid about managing your money. I see plenty of people on the subway wearing Beats…

Is there a repository somewhere of really great bug reports like this? Something along the lines of "commits from last night".

I have not heard about a west coast launch pad, but I was wondering how they planned to actually accomplish the landing. We (almost) always launch west-to-east, to take advantage o…

From what I've heard, this is because many Asian countries have a culture of information flashbang. The Yahoo homepage is extremely cluttered and busy, which fits in with what they…

Can you clarify what you mean? Maybe not 20, but 15 years ago my dad was mucking around in the guts of our family computer, performing his own upgrades. By the time we got rid of t…

Once this is out, you are paying a premium to not deal with modules by not getting one. It's a $50 phone you can swap components in and out of as upgrades become available. To me, …