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Definitely a lot of potentially very serious and important downsides to this. I’m trying to think of any possible upsides to this. - harder for unlicensed people, eg kids, to drive…

I have worked with some people in the defence industry who got just that from Adobe and a few similar vendors. They had to negotiate with adobe and sign NDAs both ways, and they pa…

Better never means better for everyone. And it always means worse for some.

What’s really needed is some way you can easily tell that a device has been tampered with, but which is also extremely difficult to bypass. And also where even if the OEM was in on…

I imagine speed and simplicity. There’s a lot more things that need maintenance on a piston engine

Missiles and Drones. There’s essentially no viable use case for a hypersonic manned jet

It just so happens that one of my colleagues just finished a PhD creating materials which pretty much do exactly this; converting a relatively broad spectrum of light into a much n…

Human level touch/somatosensory system is one of the key breakthroughs needed to make humanoid robots truly useful. As this articles details, touch is a lot more complex than simpl…

I’m guessing the author is counting himself as CTO as part of that. $60 million for the CTO and his posse of senior managers and VPs, and the other $40m split between 180 non manag…

Having something audited by an accounting firm doesn’t make me trust the numbers much more. It’s well known that many accounting firms will give you whatever result you want as lon…

Tall buildings are often demolished floor by floor from the top down. It’s a slow and expensive process. I don’t think anyone has ever demolished a building anywhere close to as ta…

You’re right that nothing is unlimited. Luckily in this case, the energy of waves and tides is given to the oceans mostly by the gravity of the moon pulling the water as it passes …

Interestingly, inside your body (in the form of a pacemaker battery) was and is the only legal way to possess plutonium as an individual (in the US) As soon as you take it out of y…

Beta-voltaic and other nuclear batteries have been around for a long time. The issue, at least so far, isn’t technology, it’s mostly just cost and safety. These things cost hundred…

Yes you can. On Mac keyboard maestro will do exactly that. On windows it’s Autohotkey.

If you’re only sellable skill is making music, and you have to put food on the table, that isn’t begging to be exploited; it’s grit

Because in many places, especially disaster zones, a tent is a massive upgrade from the bare patch of dirt they often currently have to make do with. This isn’t to replace an inner…

Perhaps this was some kind of rare memory fault where it took a series of photos and there was some kind of corruption that caused elements of each to be merged. Or perhaps there w…

My understanding is it has definitely been solved by the use of much thicker gloves or gloves with heating elements. But doing difficult technical climbing at very high altitudes a…

Money is a powerful motivator

Thank you. That makes sense

Care to enlighten those of us who don’t already know the explanation?

Knocking on someone’s front door and noticing it’s unlocked is perfectly legal. It’s actually walking in that’s illegal.

Everyone has a price, and drug companies can usually find a way to meet it for even the most steadfast