I thought we were all early... NFTs may finally be the thing to expose crypto for what it is. A total scam. NFTs were literally a link to s3 storage in the blockchain. There was no guarantee that s3 storage link would stay up. There was no built in mechanism to make sure the storage for the media was paid for. You were just paying for the link *at that time*. NFTS are literally worse than a screenshot. People are now calling crypto out, checkout r/ButtCoin on reddit for more.

.. of american life? Cancer.

Reformulating gasoline, and more efficient cars dramatically reduce the risk of cancer.

Source: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fww2.arb.ca.gov%2Fnews%2Fst...

"I wouldn't recommend an MBA. I'd say no MBA needed. An MBA is a bad idea. [...] It teaches people all sorts of wrong things. [...] They don't teach people to think in MBA schools. And the top MBA schools are the worst. Because they actually teach people that you must be special, and it causes people to close down their feedback loop and not rigorously examine when they are wrong. [...] I hire people in spite of an MBA, not because of one. If you look at the senior managers of my companies, you'll see very few MBAs there."

On Earth we evolved, over millions of years, mind you, to handle about 0.62 rads per year. On Mars, its 8 rads per year.

While this isn't enough to cause radiation poisoning. It will definitely cause a higher, in fact, much higher, incidence of cancer on mars.

Its not just the elderly. Teenagers. Distracted drivers. Epileptics. Narcoleptics. Suddenly incapacitated people (heart attacks, strokes). Drunk drivers. Texters. Everyone would benefit from cars that maintain their lanes and automatically brake. This is technology we already have and we already mass produce. This rule should, and most likely will, be expanded to all drivers in all cars - all the time.

Elon Musk: "In the distant future, I think people may outlaw driving cars because it's too dangerous. You can't have a person driving a two-ton death machine."

Its happening.

The only problem with this thinking is that Facebook owns 4 out of 5 of the most downloaded apps last year. So, you may not use facebook (which includes, instagram, whatsapp, messenger), but the rest of the world sure is using it.

And whats stopping these countries from placing tariffs on the products Americans sell to them?

Isolationism is, well, exactly how it sounds.

For the companies that you work at, where is the biggest growth globally? Is it in the US or UK?

Interoperability between car vendor will take decades to implement, not to mention the cost would be prohibitive.

Instead, if cars implement just two, currently available features, we can eliminate most accidents:

* Lank Keeping Assist - So cars don't swerve off the road (Distracted drivers, Incapacitated drivers, Drivers suffering from a heart attack, seizure, sleep deprivation)
* Collision Avoidance System - So cars don't run into other stopped cars, pedestrians, cyclists

Thats it. Make those features mandatory, and you will see a dramatic fall in traffic accidents.

I am a developer. No windows machine can replace a macbook. In fact, OSX barely makes the cut for me.

My requirements usually include:
* Can I open a terminal that runs bash ?
* Does it have top, ps, ls, tar, man, grep, ssh, rsync, sed, awk, sort, diff, cut, tail, head etc.
* Does it have vim?
* Does it have python?
* Cron?

An OSX system (runs a BSD variant) and is very close to the systems I work on and debug. Maintaining it is a breeze.

OSX is not perfect. The windows management is inferior to, say, KDE (which I prefer). I run KDE on my work machines, and in virtualbox on my mac.

I used to be a Linux only guy. But the reason I switched to OSX, is because all those other apps like email, calendaring, chat, etc that most companies use are only truly supported on mac or windows.

On a windows machine I wouldn't know how to list the files in a folder (actually, I do, its 'dir'. I remember this only because I'm unable to repress those memories completely).

1) Lazurus Form Recovery - Caches all form data that I input in text boxes, so if the tab gets accidently closed or the browser crashes, I don't have to re-type my pearls of wisdom
2) POSTman - REST client
3) CamelCamelCamel - Check amazon's price history

Honorable Mention
4) Controlled multi tab browsing - Makes sure I don't open a gazillion tabs.

Except that the shooter is most likely not muslim. *Sigh* Sarkar is a common bengali surname, and most likely hindu: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... Your unjustified rant sounds like a classic case of: http://imgur.com/t75V7oe

If the goal is just to collect sunlight 24 hours a day, you could just build solar power stations across the globe. It would be a heckuva lot cheaper than building one in space. But maybe that makes too much sense.

Another thought that comes to mind is that the loss in power during wireless transfer would be significant. I'd love to see the calculations that show that this is more practical than collecting the energy on different locations on the surface of the earth.

Lastly, with all this talk of "supposed" global warming, I don't think we are going to do ourselves any favors by pointing concentrated microwave beams at earth ;-)

Whats the point of making the phones thinner and lighter when the first thing most people do is put them in huge rubber cases and screen protectors.

Its also interesting to note that people spend a a good amount of money on cases and screen protectors.

Even if an indestructible phone were larger, heavier, and more expensive out of the box than the average phone today, it may very well still be thinner, lighter and cheaper than the average phone + accessories.

.. if they had some sort of staggered entry to the website. A very simple rule such as only those born before 1950 can register in the first week, those born before 1960 in the second week and so on. This would have alleviated a lot of the traffic issues and given the developers some breathing room to fix bugs and scale their solution.

Controlling traffic, while you scale your solution, is not a novel concept. Gmail did this through an invitation system when it first started. Facebook only allowed certain universities at first etc...

Its strange but this reminds me of why, they say, we have mirrors in elevators. Folklore suggests that in the early days of high rises, people tended to have an unrealistic expectation of elevator speeds, probably, because they had nothing to do in the elevator. Adding mirrors in the elevators gave people something to do and took the pressure off the elevator engineers.

If people expected a government run web site to scale perfectly for millions of users within the first month of its deployment, those are very unrealistic expectations.

(in your view) have on the cost of a four year degree in the next 20 years? I am not speaking directly in context of Khan academy - but online courses in general at universities - as well.

Traditionally, the cost of a course is divided between the limited physically present students. With the advent of online universities and courses, that cost can be divided across students across many geographical boundaries. A student in his parent's basement in Malawi could theoretically take a Political Science course at Stanford. This has many advantages:

a) Universities can educate more students per semester per course - so they bring in more revenue.
b) Students don't have to pay for room and board - so it reduces the direct burden on the students.
c) Deserving students can take courses without having to go through the hell of getting a US visa.

For degrees (like Computer Science) that don't need much laboratory work (that you need to be physically present for), it seems to me that the cost of education should actually start to come down drastically with online courses - but I know I am missing something and big education is going to work hard to keep the fees up.