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Re:Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much
on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @01:51PM (#29570084)
NASA developed and gave away TCP/IP. That was a fundamental networking piece for everyone.
GPS?
Re:Where has all the productivity gone?
on Sunday August 01, 2021 @08:43AM (#28025875)
True in recent history, but not always. For 200k years, humans lived the same exact life as their parents.
Re:The Abundance of Silicon Valley
on Friday October 16, 2020 @07:04PM (#24805849)
Totally.
I relocated to Colorado a decade ago, swallowing the cost of living salary decreases, but I'm coming out better in terms of quality of life. If California, for a split second, achieved even close to the affordability for quality of life as CO, I would move back.
Re:The Abundance of Silicon Valley
on Friday October 16, 2020 @06:47PM (#24805751)
But tech can also pick up and leave much faster and required less reason to stay clustered (factories, transporting materials, supply chain etc). Add in the fact the world in general turns faster, I don't think SV can keep the tech industry for how long Auto Manufacturing remained in the Mid-West.
Re:The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy
on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:14AM (#24399959)
That is essentially the main study of the today’s time: set & setting.
We don’t outright ban these like the way our parents did, but we don’t know how to consistently trigger good outcomes for a variety of personalities. The only way to resolve that is by testing and controlling for set and setting.
Re:The coming collision between autonomous vehicles and the liability ...
on Saturday August 29, 2020 @10:54AM (#24316503)
But we would blame the person in your situation.
In the vehicle, is it still the fault of the driver, or the software company? Or insurance?
Re:A ‘viral’ new bird song in Canada is causing sparrows to change the...
on Sunday July 05, 2020 @08:39AM (#23738240)
Except all the work in training the birds...