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Human civilization is at least tens of thousands of years old(just considering what modern man believes) and always valued gold more than anything for both store and exchange of value. I don't see why modern civilization(which were ahead of us in all domains) would feel any different from their ancestors for gold.

Gold as metal has something more than what makes it scarce and valuable, something we have yet to discover. There's a good reason why all central banks of all economies(US,Chine,Russia) are holding on to gold as much as they can and buy/steal more of it as the opportunity arises.

Filtering research grant application based on personal/organizational beliefs is serious thing that can alter understanding of science. Highlighting these problems in application review process is important for public to understand to not to trust research blindly without accessing for any hidden bias.

I would call it weird! OP surely received similar advertise that led to this post. Why would someone advertise such an old tech now?

To me buses and truck market seems niche as compared to personal cars for companies looking to build electric tech to drive them. Number of state departments and businesses willing to pay for electric vehicle are fewer compared to electric car customers.

I totally agree with your core point. We definitely needs to be more responsible with how we design next generation computing chips. We need to think about power consumption especially in current world where climate change, power/resource shortages are looming large at horizon.

It's rare to see someone go above and beyond a benevolent hobby to build a complete solution to a people's problem.

Nice humor :)

Initial cost might be high but this cost would be slowly return as you save on electricity bills. Also, all this equipment is not perishable and you can still re-sell at good price after your retirement or sell them along with house. Its no different than investing in house upgrades which adds to the house value.

Longer school days might help kids with stressful home environment but it also poses risk to bonding b/w kids and parents especially for parents who are able to provide and are working towards holistic(moral, etc.) development of their kids. Longer school days should be optional with extra curricular activities to fill the later part of the day.

I completely agree. There are very few paid software for which we don't already have a FLOSS software that can compete with it. Linux users are normally good at finding FLOSS alternatives to paid softwares.

Another thing that author can do is to compare Linux home users sales results with Windows home users for any of their product that is available for both platforms. Sales would be similar as long as Linux and Windows software marketplace for that area is same.

I guess what meant here is that one should never make mistake of assuming that a highly reliable system can be built. As you start to approach near 100% reliable system, you start experiencing failures that are caused by minute disturbances/flaws in underlying dependencies(hardware, physical location) which can't be controlled. This is what they realized while trying to push the limits to build highly reliable system.

That's great. Now next thing that needs to be solved is to make this tech available for general public use just like computers are these days. Problems that are waiting to be solved by it are very large and of huge impact.

Situation here is of real world which is different from software world. Real world equipment can degrade/develop faults after use so its important to inspect them before each job(especially when risk associated are very high) which is possible only when person is familiar with equipment construction and building things yourself is the best way to get familiar with its mechanics.Whereas in software world, things don't degrade with use and we have option to automate inspection cheaply.

Why is this data such a big deal? Didn't US should already have enough medical data of its citizens for study?

I believe is the latter point that's more important for China. First point is simply true for all nations that are trying to sell something.

Unfortunately, we live in a highly competitive/growth demanding times where companies chose to invest resources only on areas where they see good returns. This means that for-profit companies, like google, in long run would do far less than non-profit companies, like firefox,for special need audience.

I believe one additional reason law enforcement don't want to get warrant is because they don't want to leave any paper trail when they track someone as that would expose the terrifying volume of phone they track.

Yeah, almost all the time its the inclination of an individual towards a new language that becomes the driving factor of migration rather than the actual shortcoming of current language.

Its mostly these minute details that gets overlooked during code reviews which leads to bigger problems. Bigger design mistakes rarely happen.

At least numbers looks humongous at first glance with it. :)

Wow! He is really want to suck as much profit as possible out of his position. No wonder people like him makes so much money.

Fact that they went to a great length to secure his position means that it really matters. Maybe the relationships that he has build over years with foreign nations is too valuable to lose or there is no suitable candidate to replace him.

Theoretically, this rule can also be gamed by taking all votes by influence of power.

I totally agree. One fine example is of dictators of world who became threat to people because of no checks on term.

There's noting special about it. This is true for all social hierarchy, plans that are important to the people at the top are implemented.

Satellite based broadband surely is something hard to restrict, and would be nice option for Uighers. But before we declare it as the solution to problem we need to think through any risks that it can pose. There aren't going to be many providers of satellite based broadband which means prices would be high due to lack of competition. There is also the issue of traffic snooping by US government, especially if US companies going to be sole player in this field.