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Yeah, someone would have started to cross the oceans eventually. Europeans happened to do that first.

Yes, but, unfortunately - devices like that exist.

And now it slaps "xbox" on everything.

Yeah - it's a mess. Some devices only charge with a charger that supports PD. Some other devices need a charger WITHOUT PD support.

We are pumping oil that's located under the seabed. It would have seemed completely insane in the 19th century when all oil was easily accessible. Asteroid mining might be feasible in a few decades. If it really gets going - it could make gold as cheap as aluminium is today.

Honey, I shrunk the Grandkids.

If I had a disease like that - I would not want to drive at all.

A tariff is a tax - so additional tax on BDs, DVDs, cinema tickets, etc. It's stupid, but it's possible to implement it.

The guy who took that photo of Barbra Streisand's house had no idea how significant that photo would become later.

We are no longer in the film era. You won't run out of storage. So I take pictures of both.

Disc rot is a thing unfortunately. And they are no longer making new PS3s.

Germany committed the Holocaust in my country. They murdered more than 100k of our citizens. And even more died in the WW2 that they started. But now we are in the same political, military and currency union with them, because countries and their ideologies change.

NSDAP hasn't been in power in Germany for like 80 years now. Meanwhile Mao's CCP is still in power and they haven't disowned him.

Imagine if switchboard operator careers were protected. We still would not have the Internet today.

If that was true then we would still be living like in the 18th century. They would have pumped out all the easily accessible oil. It's not possible to access current oil fields with 19th century tech.

So yeah - if this civilization falls - the next one won't be able to have their own industrial revolution.

I'd like to know if what I'm attempting to do is legal BEFORE I do it not after.

But you won't need to spend 50M in the future. Hardware improves all the time.

Remember all those "can it run crysis?" memes? Those GPUs are now slower than mobile phones.

Attempts to prevent piracy are laughable and ineffective. Even North Korea can't fully prevent imports of Western cultural products.

This is why the music industry gave up and now we have services like Tidal, Spotify and Youtube.

That's because the musicians flooded the market. Good music isn't rare and it is not hard to find it. Spotify has 100M tracks - even if 99% of them were crap - that would still mean that there are 1 million good songs. More than you can listen in a lifetime.

Does it survive AI upscaling or img2img? If not - then it's useless. Nobody trains AI models without any preprocessing. This is basically a tool for 2022.

Isn't Michael Schumacher also in a similar condition for more than a decade now?

But introducing new major system would require re-certifying pilots so the hid the fact, downplayed importance of it.

Is it typical to hide critical systems from pilots in the aviation industry? Or is only Boeing doing that?

Legroom is much more important than headroom.

Just built a separate international network, with its own separate system and tracks.

This is what Rail Baltica is going to be. The Baltics are using the Russian gauge, but RB will be using the standard gauge. And it won't be connected to the existing railway system. So if it all works out - we'll finally have a high-speed rail line from Tallinn to Warsaw,

Good for you, but, for example, Israeli passports are not recognised by many countries as legitimate.

People dislike usernames, they want to be able to choose non-unique ones rather than end up with user53267 or something inane.

Google doesn't reuse usernames so if they are still around - in a few decades pretty much all unique usernames will belong to dead people.

Yes - and this is how it is in a lot of other Indo-European languages too.

And this is why you should have a dashcam in your car.

And I thought that driving a manual car from 2005 makes me old-fashioned.

We already have fusion bombs. Making a fusion bomb is a lot easier than creating a fusion reactor that can emit energy in a more controlled manner.