TremendousJudge

An advantage you have is that you can fill them with hydrogen and be fine, since there's no oxygen to allow them to suddenly combust

To me it was more prominent in the 90s, with names like John Romero, Peter Molyneux, Will Wright, American McGee, Tim Schafer, and so on. I think that after they failed to deliver in one way or anothe…

well if you help program self-driving garbage trucks, you'd technically be a driver for _every_ garbage truck

What local IoT features are you referring to? >I would buy a dumb TV in a heartbeat, next time I upgrade. If there's one available. There are none that I could find when I bought my TV some mo…

You can also call it "Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions"[0] -- if the matter seems a mystery, well, then the answer surely must be a mystery as well! I cannot be something simple an…

It doesn't seem that hard -- the things needed are a couple of free software nerds that build some sort of "UberFactory", and a city big enough where some workers unionize and are the f…

The closest thing is to never let it connect to the internet, plug in a raspi with Kodi on it, and just use that. It's almost perfect

>Our tech is gradually eroding our ability to focus on anything for more than a few seconds. real quotes from late 19th/early 20th century: https://xkcd.com/1227/ >Wit…

> but in this case there is no prize The prize is getting people to pay for a subscription forever instead of buying your console once

The same way they were able to become an ISP! wait

>Android, Maps, GSuite All of these products have existed for 5+ years. What recent thing has Google brought to the table that actually stuck?

Wouldn't be out of place -- Newton worked on alchemy, teology and managed the Royal Mint

>when you compare against the current option To me the current option is no participation because I see no explicit ads. The web is pull and not push, and my browser renders whatever I want it to. …

That's kinda what Firefox did

People are surprisingly heavy too

Can you expand on that?

>which may cause the loss of flight controls and which they refreain from fixing for almost 30 years? And, that as far as we know, hasn't caused

How exactly?

It's important to note that in Argentina there is a black market for dollars -- You can buy dollars at "blue" price, which is more expensive. This means that the government is subsidizi…

You're right. Of course, we're not yet in a world where _task-specific well performing AIs are easy for anyone to develop_, but we're getting there and looks feasible. A 500 meter crane…

>Machines on the other side, can be scaled arbitrarily. Once you've built a small crane, you can build even increasing ones, it's just a function of money and interest. It doesn't ma…

As far as I know liquid propellant rocket engines are notoriously complex, and operate under even more extreme conditions than modern airplane engines

>like "Turbo" on an electric car. or on a compiler!

>I had great trouble finding results which were not advice for business owners. This, so much. There are so many search queries nowadays that have been SEO'd to hell, and there are just pages …

>Coverage I’ve read in American discourse focuses on the dystopian side of the Chinese government. Examples abound: from its oppression of Uyghurs, to its outright ban of many religious groups, to …

>Off-screen indicators/functionality is a problem everywhere. Yes, but an iPhone 8 costs at least 450 dollars, and Apple products pride themselves in the "premium experience" they pr…

I thought that Freedom was the most important tenet of the USA? If something doesn't harm anyone, should it be deterred just because it has associated behaviors that do? Should going to the shoot…

It's already used in imports as well! It was the better choice, I don't know which arguments convinced them otherwise

Well, space is still out there though, and current tech is much better suited to dominate it than 60s tech. The first nation to figure out space mining and manufacturing will be light years ahead of a…

you literally just answered yourself?