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Nothing, because then you are on google sites all the time and google gets all the ad dollars. For some reasons, google wants to become AOoL, introducing the A with their AMP servi…

How about a Hippocratic Oath for business leaders? This is shifting the responsibility from management towards the engineers. It's not the engineers who pulled the trigger at Faceb…

>Regular double quoted strings can have newlines. This doesn't feel right. There are already ` for multi-line comments. Why not use them? Changing the meaning of " breaks the abili…

Do helmets significantly reduce casualities or are they more like a courage device that makes the wearer feel less vulnerable?

Isn't this the reason why it is called Rome? In JavaScript history, we are past Babel (and the Greek city states) and a centralized tooling will allow for an unprecedented language…

Because they like milk. You can justify anything if you want it to be true. Where does this end? Industrial farming kills insects. We obviously don't have the same amount of love f…

Apple has always been like that: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor... Of course they will relive their desktop experience because some other environment …

Must be rain water, that comes from above.

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Long-term, the only valuable resource is attention. Content is accumulating, faster and faster due to automation, thus its value is declining. Artists can make money with concerts …

Maybe because Bezos stops being involved and there is nobody inside the company who dares to change whatever Bezos has implemented? Reading the tweets, it seems like Bezos made all…

What can you do, what do you know? If there were a clever answer that fits everybody, all the banks would already have poured all available money into it. You maximize your returns…

If you have an orchestra with 100 musicians who receive something like $10^5 per year, you pay $10^7 per year. You need several years to practice and to form the orchestra into a t…

As you say, it is orthogonal. Why not have both? You pay for the fraud with higher fees compared to a system where fraud is prevented by additional security.

The meaning of all words changes. It would be ironic if the meaning of the word hacker would be unchangeable, impenetrable.

Seems like they have enough resources to train their translation NN and speech-to-text NN. I don't think google has introduced those features for the users in the first place but t…

It's a crisis because it is happening abruptly. The price for hydrocarbons will rise much slower, like the increased consumption of the growing population of the world. Meanwhile, …

However, will it lead to a crisis? The hunger for new things simply dies down if they are not affordable. It's already happening. Energy is much more expensive than it used to be. …

>looming energy crisis Where do you see the crisis? Unless you want to provide everybody with an abundance of energy, people need food and shelter, some electricity for electronics…

You also can't guarantee that you won't be hit by a meteorite and yet you leave your house. If you worry about the signal not being received and the inability of air traffic contro…

That happens if everything goes wrong but you cannot create that situation intentionally. Usually, pushing the emergency button would send an emergency signal, and air traffic cont…

Surviving cannot be the ambition of IBM.

You will have a hard time creating a situation where pushing the button for an emergency landing creates a disaster.

How do you create planetary structures but with super-companies and rich people? People don't innovate by themselves. The workers and/or engineers of the US or the world could have…

What happens if they fly into a building because they don't have the button? It's a management of risks. Besides, there can be a back-link and information updates for the landing b…