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Indeed, the blame clearly lies with Microsoft.

One of the reasons I choose a PC over a Mac is because I want to decide things for myself. Microsoft's updates seem very Appleish to me.

All they need is large text that says something like, "You are more likely to get viruses, malware, randomware, etc if you uncheck this setting." Heck, make them confirm the choice two or three times. Some people want to risk it, some people need to risk it. Let them, it's their machine and their data.

Oops, I thought he said "cheap, clean freely available drugs".

No, things are not black and white. Having a heroin vending machine next to every gumball machine is a bad idea.

If society can change from taxes on tea being too high, it can change when unemployment is 91%.

So what's the alternative? Protectionism? The rest of the world will be colonizing Pluto while we are self-sufficient with furniture. Look at all these chair building jobs! Each chair only costs $45,000 each.

No, the US will never, ever be competitive with India and China on industrial labor even if we went laissez faire. We have to go the other way. Drastically reform and expand education and compete with Europe, not China. In other words, in order to maintain our standard of living, we need to be inventing and designing and leave the manufacturing and production to Asia. (Until the AI/robot game changer.)

>Use of the devices is slumping because they are not as good as cigarettes at giving a hit of nicotine

This is total nonsense. You can use e-juice at a level that will give you nicotine poisoning.

That is interesting. I think custom TLD's cost a huge amount of money though (like $200k).

It must be nice knowing the "correct" way to live.

In that case I would predict we'll hit it at around, say, 2030.

Exactly, we are talking about millions of people if you go back a few thousand years.

Also, the platform is ExpressionEngine.

Not really. Machines don't care if you instruct them to build a Ferrari or a Toyota. There's no difference in robot labor. After that, all that's left is resources, and sending robots to mine outer space isn't a deal-beaker either.

AI + Space = everything we need

Machines have been labor saving entities since the invention of the wheel. Inevitably, one day they will perform all labor.

A lot of people seem to assume you get handed a 18 point font piece of paper that says, "You agree to borrow $70,000 for a student loan." Mine was hundreds of pages of legalese and I didn't even know what the total of my 11 loans were until I graduated and consolidated.

Socialized medicine or a pure capitalistic system would both be preferable to the current system in the US. Right now it's the worst of both worlds.

Those are the prices to build clones of those sites (I think).

Yes, "Uber for Babysitting", "Uber for Cooking", "Uber for Package Delivery", etc.

Look at all these "great ideas"! I'm willing to give them away because ideas ARE cheap. Overcoming the network effect is expensive.

What's your source on $15k?

Getting an education was the stupidest thing I've ever done.

It doesn't necessarily have to be a "block out the sun" type of project.

There are other opportunities, like energy. Surely someone can take a bite out of a 100+ trillion dollar industry in a profitable and green way.

In theory, a basic income should shift wages from skill to demand. For example, sanitation workers and doctors would get a high wage whereas video game designer wages would drop. (You won't care about a video game when there is 3' of garbage on your lawn.)

I don't have a cell phone or a stereo, so the Echo is really the perfect device for me. I use it for weather, timers, news, fact look-up, math, music, etc.

I really wish it supported something like json, allowing me to get an audio of anything on the web.

With the exception of aluminum, consumer recycling is total nonsense. (Industrial recycling is extremely important and profitable.)

Putting recyclables on an oil burning truck to an oil burning processing plant is dubious at best.

Windows XP is technology from 2001. A lot has changed in the last 14 years.

They should have probably made tiers.

0-1,000 downloads = nothing

1,001-100,000 downloads = donate button

100,001-1,000,000 downloads = big donate button

1,000,001+ downloads = set your own price, 50% share to modder

I couldn't agree more. 100 or 200 years seems feasible.

I can't wait to get my Echo. All I want is for the wake up word to be "computer". Is that so much to ask?