So how exactly is a Doctor supposed to plan ahead in case the airline decides to violate https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/part-253 and illegally throw him off of the flight he paid for?

Or perhaps, as an adult, you could research the relevant law https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/part-253 which clearly documents passengers’ rights (which the article got completely wrong), and stand up for your rights when the airline tries to illegally stiff passengers to prop up their profits.

The article has three huge flaws, rendering it essentially wrong in its conclusions.

First, there’s a huge difference between before and after boarding.

External hard drives for the Mac are literally the same drives as for PC’s, for the same price. If you have a lot of stuff, that’s where you can store it.

I’ve had a Bodum Santos for a while, and it’s a fun way to make coffee, and the coffee produced is good. That being said, the process is a bit slow and complicated, so you wouldn’t want to make coffee this way every day, but it’s fun for making coffee with friends.

I’ve had a Bodum Santos for a while, and it’s a fun way to make coffee, and the coffee produced is good. That being…

“Fact: They aren’t visiting us.”

Why is it wrong to assume FTL, but just fine to assume that we can transplant human consciousness into computers? It’s true that if we can’d move FTL then space travel is extremely time consuming, so we’ll need suspended animation, or eternal life, or multi-generation ships if we want to explore. Or perhaps we build a…

Keep in mind that Star Trek was a TV show that needed to be comprehensible to the mass audience in the 1960s. The crew needed to be humans (albeit, very good ones) so that the audience could identify with them, not wildly genetically modified or intelligences embedded in supercomputers. And Roddenberry wanted to tell…

Star Trek never said that money didn’t exist, just that human society had evolved past the need for money.

That example us pretty US-centric. In many countries, higher education is available to anyone who earns it through hard work, available to anyone, not just the rich. Heck, it used to be that way in the US in many places.

Note that the wealthy people have the resources, and almost all of the military capability on the planet, and include the people running the governments of the poor people in Africa, so the poor people dying of HIV/AIDS aren’t able to do anything to us.

“We have no idea if FTL travel is possible, ever, but if it is, we’ll probably have to discover it and visit them, because they aren’t visiting us.”

Interesting analysis, but it avoids the central question, which is whether we should increase the size of the US Navy and Air Force, given that we already spend 5x as much on “defense” as any other country on the planet - it’s far from clear that we really should aspire to spend 6x a much instead, given that we face…

This whole chart boils down to 8:1 ratio by volume of water:coffee. Everything else is just a huge mess of unit conversions.

A few things:

Sure, as soon as tobacco companies aren't allowed to use emotion based advertising, that argument will make sense.

The problem is that emotion-based advertising works much more effectively than information-based communication.

Remember, laptops are used traveling, so they get dinged up, dropped, etc., due the wear and tear of travel. And they have displays and batteries, which have high failure rates (screens crack, batteries wear out). A home machine just sits there, so it'll only fail if a component fails.

Where on earth is this coming from? Anyone can install and use Google Maps, and they published an URL scheme, just as Apple Maps does. So it's a fair footing. The only fundamental advantage that Apple Maps has over Google Maps is that it's pre-installed. If Apple were trying to lock people in, they could have blocked…

Yeah, it's not thrilling. The print quality is marginal, and it's tied into a weird DRM scheme that's pretty unsettling. They also tie you into using their proprietary filament cartridges, and they won't even tell you how much is in the cartridge. If you want a cheap, low quality 3D printer you're better off with the…