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Considering that bringing the resources to Earth would still require landing rights, I'd imagine such a cartel would be easy to break by the world's governments.

Actually, reading up on this: http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol4/spacelaw.htm... shows that if you mine it, you own the ore but not the site. Although you are right th…

After reading up on this: http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol4/spacelaw.htm... It seems that the current US position (who will probably be the first to start large scale…

Those things are equivalent, only in the first case you do it retroactively instead of proactively. Hell, if gene modification becomes advanced enough you could even let people wit…

That automatically means no company can lay claim to stuff in space. When you read that Denmark, Russia, Norway etc. are laying claim to the North Pole (and more importantly, the o…

> Signal is unusual because it combines cutting edge cryptography with consumer friendliness and is actually successful. You do realize that since last year WhatsApp actually uses …

What I've never understood about this: the Outer Space Treaty says "The treaty also states that the exploration of outer space shall be done to benefit all countries and shall be f…

Or just keep Javascript on but install JS Blocker 5 and choose what scripts run. It quite amazed me how much sites try to fingerprint your browser, especially with canvas fingerpri…

... that'll probably be as popular as ogg-vorbis. Compression algorithms simply don't benefit that much from outside scrutiny (like encryption does), so without major corporate bac…

People are angry that they pretty much took the 2015 Macbook Pro 13" base model and popped $300 on the price, and in the process gimped it compared to its more expensive versions.

Eugenics are not evil and would rid the world of many terrible, terrible hereditary diseases. However, the way to get it out of humanity should be done by the 'soft' way, not with …

That's only for America (and maybe Australia/NZ? I wouldn't know at least). Most houses in Europe are solid brick on the outside, and solid concrete walls on the inside. Not someth…

There's 'sweet, a promotion, I can finally afford that nice car' "greed" and then there's 'lets destroy 6000 people their jobs to make the shareholders happy so I can get a $1.000.…

If you inserted a CD, iTunes instantly offered to rip it for you, fully automatically. Didn't even need to fiddle with settings, it was literally just pressing 'ok'. I'd say of the…

> leverage people's current ipod music investment into the iphone. Yeah, no. Before streaming by and far the most amount of people didn't buy music in iTunes. They either torrented…

Didn't work out for Kodak, Blackberry or Microsoft. It's a very bad sign for tech companies.

Nope. A large part is being at the right place in time (and location), which is pure luck.

Here you go: # Privacy: don’t send search queries to Apple # Safari defaults write com.apple.Safari UniversalSearchEnabled -bool false defaults write com.apple.Safari SuppressSearc…

Hasn't worked since Yosemite.

I think he meant bad as in this: http://geoff.greer.fm/vim/ . 400 lines of code to wait for keyboard input.. sweet Jesus. Thankfully Neovim exists now. Granted, that's a VIM exampl…

> What I'd really like is to be able to tip articles, posts, apps, and websites. For articles, this already exists (at least in The Netherlands). It's called Blendle and lets you '…

But you can't compare Macbooks to $500 laptops. You need to compare them to ultrabooks like the XPS 13, where you'll see that the gap isn't so big.

Aka every Apple presentation ever. Those are filled to the brim with hyperbole ('magical', 'courageous', etc.) yet everyone somehow considers them the golden standard.

Was just about to say this. Whereas 3D Touch/Force Touch/Taptic (why does Apple have to use 3 names for the same thing...) is used a decent amount on the iPhone and Apple Watch, I'…