The one time he could say “Build a wall... to quarantine the infected!” and everyone agrees, and he didn’t do it.

Pokemon GO had been great for this — I see lots of older players in my community, going about having regular walks outside, and making RL friends planning raids together.

On one hand, I get the respect for Greta Thunberg and admire her passion, on the other hand, I don’t think we should be using a minor’s picture on a mural — in this age when people can be mean and hurtful, using a minor’s image as the symbol of a movement can have long lasting effects. Same goes for memes people…

Well, many voters in that demographic also voted [for a party that] repeals ACA (many merely because it’s dubbed as “Obamacare” by the media), so there’s that. The problem is that people generally want a perfect solution from the get-go — there might be a partial solution that works as a first step, but everyone…

The $900 price tag is not that scary - who this bring you more joy than other ways to spend that $900? A trip? A new phone?  If so, it’s worth every penny.

I don’t think my point is clear. I am not proposing Tesla to give the vehicles away for free and take a loss - I am proposing we get the wealthy to come up with the funds to make environmentally-friendly alternatives more attractive than other options. Giving it away for free, as a form of donation from the wealthy,…

As much as I loved what she is doing and the movement, there really hadn’t been much difference made — Greta had given lots of passionate speeches, XR had their public stunts, but after an article or two, everyone just carry on whatever they were doing and nothing got done.

But that doesn’t address the two points in the article - it’s not convenient (you have to find an adapter, and have a collection of these everywhere you need to charge) and it doesn’t eliminate e-waste (I probably have a few dozens of micro USB cables that I no longer use as more and more things switches to USB-C).…

To stop Amazon, you need a worthy competitor. The problem is that in order to be competitive, you need to offer cut throat prices, and exploit the workers. Consumers in general will not pay double for a product just so everyone in the supply chain is treated fairly; as much as we like to blame the evil corporations,…

My biggest problem isn’t the torque or pulling force, it is that the job sites I go to don’t usually have a charging station -- unless the battery is removable and replaceable in-field, I am not going to wait an hour for the truck to charge.

I’m sorry, but it’s naive to think that electric trucks (or electric vehicles, in general) is the “solution” to the transportation problem — yes, you are lowering greenhouse gas emission, but at the cost of moving this pollution to developing countries where the rare-earth materials used for making batteries is mined.…

What most likely will happen is that Blizzard would be successful in the next couple years, after which Tencent (or other Chinese software companies) will either come up with home-grown clones or buy out the company. Very few foreign software companies succeed in China without facing strong competitions in an unfair…

What’s the advantage of flying soldiers vs drones? Why put a soldier in there (that needs much more protection, adding armour and weight) when you can just remote control the whole thing?

I have been burned so many times on Kickstarter, that I have vowed to never back anything on it again. For example, I backed a projected called Vago, which is a travel-sized vacuum baggage compressor; they had a working prototype, the technology is sound, the videos from engineers showed they know what they are…

You might enjoy the jerryrigeverything YouTube channel, if you aren’t aware of it already. I am not usually squeamish but seeing brand new phone bend in half via force, lit under a fire and then scratched with a razer blade makes me sick.

Huh? Where did you get that? I never mentioned Hong Kong or China... just saying that there’s no single language called “Chinese” and there are different number of tones in the different Chinese languages. Cantonese has a longer history (as it’s closer to the older forms of spoken Chinese than Mandarin is) which has…

5 tons in Mandarin. 9 tones for Cantonese.

But I think part of what’s different with Frozen is that it is about sisterly love, not romantic love — everyone expected Kristoff to save the day (as in typical fairy tales) but at the end, it was Elsa/Anna’s sisterly love that broke the curse. It shows us that love doesn’t have to mean romantic love and a princess…

Part of the problem is that, unlike other labour work, it’s very easy for tech companies to outsource and hire remote workers. A common tactics that corporations use to intimidate workers into not joining a union is that they will threaten to close the site if an union is formed -- a move that hurts the corporation…

I have the Zhiyun Smooth-4 which has a zoom/focus dial on the side.