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YMMV My professional relationships formed AFTER college are far stronger. I honestly don't hang or communicate with anyone I knew in college. I've tried but we simply don't have en…

I'd also say that the strategic problem space is seldom located where the tactical problems space is that "solves" the strategic problem. And we can not know where or how far away …

It would also be nice to remove the "magically thinking" around machine learning. It's mathematically related to all prior signal processing techniques (mostly a proper superset) b…

The Green Revolution of the 1960s proved that we could - that Malthusian claims were BS. What we have now is those same Malthusians actively sabotaging the roots of the Green Revol…

A natural result of women's demand for 6-6-6

Honestly if this is a problem, you haven't designed/structured the product design or marketing well enough. You should be focusing on pitching the economics rather than the technic…

A lot of the problem starts with the fact that most hospitals in the USA were taken over and are now owned by "Private Equity". If you know ANYTHING about finance, that should send…

Absolutely true. I worked and lived in the SF Bay Area for nearly 30 years and I grew up in Marin. I left in 2016 and now own land in a rural area back East. I'm building my dream/…

Except if you consider the "entropy" of doing that, you have an enormous amount of energy inputs required.

It's far safer than keeping it on dry land or burying it. Just look up the amount of water in the Pacific and then divide into the amount of waste water being discussed - the ratio…

As someone who lived through "64K should be plenty" and often used computers with little more than 4K RAM, I absolutely agree. This is one of the major "bloatware" features of mode…

For some things it's definitely possible. For "basic editing/writing" it's plenty good enough for Linux applications that aren't super compute hogs. Which is actually most things t…

Fun Fact: Germany and Austria have agreed to pay for Russian gas/oil in Rubles. And apparently, at least Poland, is now buying gas and oil from Germany (obviously now at a premium …

The article premise is the purest of false dichotomy. Profits and Free Speech are not opposite cause and effect - how did American manage 250 years to archieve both together???

This is a legal problem - allowing broadcast advertisements to the general public for pharma products is where the problem started. Before that, pharma had to advertise in targetin…

Or Covid vaccine.

Could it be that since humans are social primates, online simply can never work as well as face-to-face. I work in sales and direct face-to-face sales ALWAYS has better close rates…

Human men already do this as well - it's how you get single mothers.

Just as the board and executives has fiduciary obligations to shareholders, employee option holders fall into that population as well. There are legal incentives/threats against no…

When I was young I loved magazines like Popular Electronics. After getting my EE, I looked back at those magazines in my collection I immediately thought "That's so wrong!" or "Tha…

Fun fact: OLEDs have radically shorter lifespans "in the field" than LED or LCD. According to a paper from Samsung at IEEE IRPS three years ago, the best OLED screens only have abo…

Actually CRTs and vacuum tubes in general are the "far more complex" manufacturing process compared to semiconductor. It's sounds wrong but just watch the following video about Mul…

With current supply chains and infrastructure, yes, flat panels in general are easier. OLED are still somewhat specialized so most come from JP or KR companies (with factories in J…

I have a TON of old HP LaserJet printouts from the 1980s and 1990s have have done this - if you have them stacked in a box, you find them stuck together and pulling them apart take…

And then you add this to the universal surgical risk of abdominal fistulas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKMBWOBbyws You seriously want to ponder whether you should get any surg…