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FWIW I don't feel that the writing failed. And I don't think she went mad, or something. She just buckled, and that's as close a depiction of (powerful or not) people buckling under the stress and loneliness and emotions that I've seen in real life …

> corporations wielding power on a planetary scale. Maybe it's a bit of a devil's advocate thing, but let me offer a different angle - I tend to think that said corporations are increasingly giving the power up to the nation-state. True …

Teaching people to thread their in-channel conversations helps (even though I admit that Slack threads are not ideal)

I have this general idiosyncrasy to the tendency of blaming the tools. To make the analogy closer to the bone, consider people equating all motorcycle riders to suicidal maniacs. I mean, Slack is a tool. For those of us who knows what IRC is …

I'd take Linux, of course. Probably Debian, or Ubuntu if feeling lazier than average :)

I don't have tulips to share, but I can share some trivia :) For most people, tulips evoke Netherlands. However, the tulips go much deeper. The Dutch brought them from the Ottoman empire. House of Osman was heavily associated with tulips as …

Finland has lots of interesting hobbies, for example death metal knitting championship :)

I've been to Reykjavik three times, for EvE Online fanfests. I think it's a terrific place and I really need to get back and drive (or ride!) around the whole island and not just the touristic Golden Circle route. I'll dig up whichever pics I have …

I guess it comes with the territory. I watched Captain Marvel at the movies just last Friday, with pleasure (it might have also been affected by the fact that it was a birthday present to myself, 3 hours alone, no kids :D ). And at the same time …

The biggest enemy of proper camp eating for me is time. I need to be properly relaxed and not pressed for time to really cook something nice and not just quickly refuel for the day and get going. That being said, my motorcycle camping set has …

On water supplies - it is sometimes difficult to cart lots of water with you; so if one is heading anywhere where the water is present but is of questionable potability, having a LifeStraw or similar might be quite a life-saver. It's small and …

At least for subscriptions, you can choose if you want to have any milk chocolate at all; we are not big fans so we get only dark. I snapped the latest box for you, sorry, we, erm, ate some :) As to bamba, it's in every corner store here, and …

We only ever had one slight melting problem during August in Israel (was +40 C or more for most of the month that year). They are also aware and allow for pausing your subscription for several months for exactly this reason, at no charge.

I'll just post a little old-fart rant about how people seem to forget that it was ignorance that killed the cat, and curiosity was framed. We live in a day when vast amounts of knowledge humanity has amassed is literally at our fingertips, almost …

If I may suggest, let him check out a very similar novel written earlier, called We by Evgeny Zamyatin. It was a notable precursor and, arguably, an inspiration for both Huxley and Orwell.

Are you people aware of a nice UK company called Cocoa Runners? They have a wonderful chocolate subscription thing going (or fixed-period "tasting courses" which make for an excellent gift to a fellow addict). I'm a very satisfied customer of theirs.

I read just today somewhere that Stadia is not about the future of gaming, but about the future of Youtube, and I think I agree with that assessment. Youtube is feeling the competitive pressure. If I remember right, it's already eclipsed by Amazon …

Unfortunately, "speed" as a single metric is quite misleading. We don't even have to start discussing latency or ask "speed between which two points exactly", how about upload vs download speeds? For example here in Israel, a high-tech "startup …

Quite sceptical about the realities of input lag, and as @JazliAziz says, not everyone has a decent enough connection (ironically, most of USA doesn't, think ComCast). Definitely something to watch, but my expectations are rather low.

The reputation score is definitely super complicated, which is part of the reason we do not have it yet. Also, to wit, why should I care what "Facebook", or some other corporate service entity, "thinks" of me, unless for fraud prevention or …

Same here. We have some Amazon stuff and we have iphones and androids and Macs and some IOT stuff, DIY and not. I currently integrate with HomeAssistant, but on a macro level as a techie I absolutely loathe the incessant fragmentation. What I would …

I have a feeling (purely based on experience, can't quote any science on this) that the very approach is flawed. Getting AI/ML to better understand broader context is fine, but to create yet another imperfect scale, which will be a) arbitrarily …

It is impossible to answer your question in a straight way, because what is happening with Russian space industry is not governed by reason. I mean, of course physics still apply, and there's still a trove of very talented and hard-working people …

This sounds like a Dan Pink quote (not that I don't agree, with caveats)

Here's an alternative (and somewhat tongue-in-cheek on my part) take on what else can be bigger in our phones :) https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/02/26/energizer-puts-a-display-on-top-of-a-massive-18000mah-power-brick-and-calls-it-a-phone/