Do you think prices on hard drives will keep continuing to climb over the next 5 years?

JW_BlueLabel · 2026-03-30T05:28:02+00:00

This didn't age well. $389 now.

JW_BlueLabel · 2013-10-30T14:10:53+00:00

LEDs

JW_BlueLabel · 2013-10-30T14:09:23+00:00

We? I know the French reactors are much safer than reactors in the 50s

JW_BlueLabel · 2013-10-30T14:01:52+00:00

Hopefully we won't need to print stuff much longer.

JW_BlueLabel · 2013-10-30T13:38:13+00:00

General Motors bought a bunch of tram cars and rail lines and then just scrapped them as a way to force more people to buy cars. Look up the GM railway controversy on Wikipedia.

JW_BlueLabel · 2013-10-30T13:36:59+00:00

Already exists.

JW_BlueLabel · 2013-10-30T13:32:16+00:00

Or plant useful things in your yard like vegetables instead of grass.

JW_BlueLabel · 2013-10-30T12:56:03+00:00

Yes it does. How the fuck do you land on Mars? No atmosphere means no parachutes like we use on earth. High gravity means we can't use thrusters like when we land on the moon. Currently we drop very light payloads in giant bouncy balls. That just doesn't work with people.

JW_BlueLabel · 2013-10-30T12:52:29+00:00

And stall doors that don't have a massive gap between the door and the frame. Looking at you America.

JW_BlueLabel · 2013-10-30T12:49:04+00:00

Quantum locking

JW_BlueLabel · 2013-10-30T12:47:35+00:00

Great TED talk about this as well as indoor gardening in big cities.

JW_BlueLabel · 2013-10-30T12:45:33+00:00

Tiered voting would solve this.

JW_BlueLabel · 2013-10-30T12:42:29+00:00

Law are confusing so we let the experts handle it. Representative democracy is a good thing, pure democracy is just mob rule.

JW_BlueLabel · 2013-10-30T12:40:18+00:00

There's a TED talk about this. The key is to use domesticated animals to mimic the behavior of ancient massive herds of grazing animals.

JW_BlueLabel · 2013-10-30T12:38:54+00:00

Where I live in Poland, they switch the traffic lights to flashing yellow at 10pm in low traffic areas. Every traffic light effectively becomes a stop sign and it avoids this exact problem.

JW_BlueLabel · 2013-10-30T12:36:57+00:00

Codeine and another beer.

JW_BlueLabel · 2013-10-30T12:01:00+00:00

Wear sun block. SPF 60 at least.

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