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Please don't tar the SpaceX and Tesla employees with the same brush as Musk. What those people are doing is admirable.
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I think you mean "overstate". At least, I hope you do.
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It's easy - his face turns orange when he's lying.
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E.E. Smith was way ahead of the curve on identity theft. It's the entire premise for the Lensman series. Which really should be made into movies.
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Insurance works best when everyone is enrolled. If it's funded by taxes, the incentive becomes to cure people as cheaply as possible or face the wrath of the voters. Pharma companies' natural incentive is to keep people alive, but needing expensive treatment.
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How much must his ass weigh to make that possible?
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Quirk Objection. Raised when a post assumes something not proven to exist.
A: "I think [...]"
B: "obquirk: Assumes you have a brain."
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All part of their justification to invade the North Pole. Next step: Russian backing for the ELF (Elf Liberation Front)
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What's wrong with the front panel?
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Hence the popularity of retro-computing. There aren't any fundamentally different architectures competing with each other in the same space at the moment.
Buying a new graphics card doesn't have the same thrill as switching from a C64 to an Amiga.
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Does it have the addressable cursor add-on?
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And that "any" key we're always being asked to press.
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Given Venus' elemental makeup, could it ever have been habitable?
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There are passionate arguments about pizza toppings amongst pizza lovers. Anchovy or pineapple, it's still a pizza.
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engineer: the glass is twice the size it needs to be
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We didn't - but we still wrote code for them, so we'd be ready if we ever got a chance to use one.
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Wow, thanks, Mr. Broe - it smells like a new car in here!