staticman2

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1621.
by staticman2 6y ago
Tesla is the Commodore 64 of cars. (A comment that makes as much sense as arbitrary comparisons to the IPhone).
1622.
by staticman2 6y ago
A judge would not allow them to litigate for decades. This is a silly idea.
1623.
by staticman2 6y ago
Which is presumably due to birth control and other unrelated factors. To back up the claim that women are no longer looking to pair with men due to apps you can't use reproduction statistics.
1624.
by staticman2 6y ago
In the real world people seem to still be reproducing and mating and marrying. So no, this story of women no longer pairing with men due to apps making them picker doesn't ring true.
1625.
by staticman2 6y ago
Sure, everyone can retire comfortably as long as we naively assume that stock returns are predictable and will be very high forever.
1626.
by staticman2 6y ago
Earning money is a proxy for how good you are at earning money. It has nothing to do with usefulness: you can earn money at things that hurt society.
1627.
by staticman2 7y ago
That's a very ungenerous take on that blog post.
1628.
by staticman2 7y ago
There's no way to know what the false conviction rate is. We can only know what the proven false conviction rate is. There's presumably always some percentage of innocent people who can't find an alibi or other evidence to
1629.
by staticman2 7y ago
He has it wrong. The universe will end and it will be for nothing. Going to the stars does not make life meaningful or preserve anything in the end. Life has no meaning other than what we invent.
1630.
by staticman2 7y ago
Ellison freely admitted to doing it on his web site intentionally at the time and as I recall called it "playing" and asked people not to "lynch" him. (Paraphrasing from memory)
1631.
by staticman2 7y ago
Lain, like Neuromancer, is best viewed in my mind as a sort of dark, surreal fantasy story.
1632.
by staticman2 7y ago
Possibly worthless advice, but I’d suggest you date someone your own age and adopt.
1633.
by staticman2 7y ago
Marriage and family laws predate Darwin and have nothing to do with "Darwinism". They are products of, in anything, human social psychology.
1634.
by staticman2 8y ago
An IPAD can't even support a mouse.
1635.
by staticman2 8y ago
Type in HBO Static Intro and you'll see what I mean. Example on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC_uTMkmH08