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Consumer protection laws prevents businesses following this to it’s extreme. For many businesses the ideal would be to just sell stuff that immediately breaks down as soon as it’s sold. It has the fulfilled its purpose from their point of view

Must be a burden to have a family name that also is a disease, like Alzheimer.

Coin mining and AI database centers consumer huge amounts of power. I’m not really exited about either. Both enterprises seems like scams to centralize wealth and power to a few actors.

And as a consequence, massive migration from inhabitable regions. Hard to imagine the implication when there are billions of people affected

The five stages of grief, often referred to as the Kübler-Ross model, are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

Mushrooms technically are not plants

The Day of the Triffids

Ancient people certainly cared about quality. (1) But as the article concludes, it seem they were not to concerned in this case

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nāṣir

Xkcd radiatorn chart:

https://xkcd.com/radiation/

And my ax

Most of politic seems to be about negotiating to keep a third of the population away from power. Because once they get in power they will trash almost anything in their path

Polen corrected course slightly in resent time.

Wild at heart. Very approachable, but gory and brutal. The angst seep trough

Danmark is one of the biggest producers of Christmas trees

So it’s mainly a science and engineering challenge that may or maybe not have any practical application. Quite similar to manned space missions and even bigger particle accelerators etc. The diminishing returns on these mega projects will strain the public’s support both financially and politically. James Webb telescope was a huge success. But many other projects have not resulted in much either science or business.

The atoms in my body are not alive.

What is the definition of plain text? There is hardly any such thing

One could argue that if a movie is spoiled by someone talking about it, it not that great movie. A great movie is great even if you saw it a dozen times

Not all tech is a destined to be all encompassing.

VR has been “the next big thing” for more than 50 years. VR was invented in 1968

Video phone was invented way back. (1936). It took a very long time to be common and in frequent use. And it’s still not a killer feature.

His boat was also named Bayesian

Not ethics per se but all students at university in Norway take basic philosophy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examen_philosophicum

Reader version on mobile seem broken. Hiding reader show a longer article

I’ve read some books where there where some major developments/ twists that were not clearly stated and not repeated. I had to go back and reread paragraphs to understand. If you read the Bible as a fantasy novel you will come across this several times

Skipping world championship when?

Kurt Vonnegut Galapagos show is an alternative future

If he didn’t get knighted, would absolut zero be measured in Thomsons?

22 Tb is a lot of data. I wonder what people do with all the stuff they hoard?

Ivan Sutherlands sketch pad paper is here: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/14979

For me it’s Bach: Erbarme dich, mein Gott.

In this version: https://youtu.be/BBeXF_lnj_M?si=kPTUsAB19_RyECO5

Now I’m curious about MongoDb