Not people in general, just people like this guy. Having had children already is not disqualifying: https://darwinawards.com/rules...

Not the person you're responding to, but I'm pretty sure their less-than-polite phrasing meant "biological female who has ever been involved in jetpack development or *jetpack* flying".

Everyone knows Amelia Earhart was a big part of aviation history in that era, but I strongly suspect that she didn't moonlight as the Rocketeer.

Cache is a fallback option, and not needed for the NYT. Follow the link, it sees the referrer is Google.

Pay for the article and read it. Don't pay for the article and read it. Or don't pay for the article and don't read it.

Choose to stand for your principles however you like, but all three above alternatives are better than your proposed solution of pretending an interesting and relevant article doesn't exist.

Because (a) Open source/free software doesn't mean free-as-in-beer, and (b) if you need a way around the paywall just paste the URL into Google and follow the link from there to read without the paywall, or read its cached version

Indeed, people should take in the full context here, not just platitudes. They should look at how China has interacted with Europe and the US in the context of world wars, trade wars, cultural exchange and economic interdependence. ...then they should call Xi on his tantrums and fragility. He chooses to be this way.

We did when it worked. City downtowns are too dense now. Something has to change; this is an example of that change.

Whether or not the object we call Pluto is a full-sized planet or a "dwarf planet" does not change the etymology of the name "Pluto"

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God bless Lili St. Cyr!

Serious? No. I don't seriously expect really safe speed limits to be set up by any democracy that has so many motorists in it. But I do think that's what we ought to do. As a civilisation, we are killing our own children at an appalling rate, just so that motorists can catch up to the back of the next long line of stationary traffic a few seconds faster. In town, slow down.

Look at the scenario you described. A car doing the speed limit towards a marked crosswalk... it's such a familiar scenario that we forget to be horrified. Think about what we're doing here. We have footpaths across the street specifically for people to walk across. And then we have motorists driving straight at those footpaths, at such speed that it would literally be a crime to go any faster at all, at such speed that they couldn't possibly stop should anyone suddenly walk out on the path. These motorists expect everyone else in the world to pay attention, to stay out of their way. God forbid they themselves should slow down! They're 'doing the limit' and that makes it OK.

That limit is obviously much too high. It should come down. Twenty is plenty.

Then let's redesign those footpaths. At the moment there are raised paths either side of the street, and when the path runs across the middle of the street it is lowered. For the convenience of motorists, of course; otherwise they might have to slow down. Well, let them slow down! The path across the street is a pedestrian walkway just like the paths either side, so let's have it at the same height, for the convenience of people using wheelchairs, people pushing infants in prams, people with mobility issues. We'll put a gentle slope to either side of the path so that it isn't a nasty bump for motor traffic. Well, I mean - so that it isn't a nasty bump if the motor traffic is moving at a safe speed.

Yeah, speed limits are definitely way too high, you're right about that. 20mph in cities is plenty. Then you have a lot longer in which to notice people walking across the road, your brakes have much less work to do in order to bring the vehicle safely to a stop, and if you still fail to respond in time you'll do much less bodily harm to somebody.

More like Practically Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, and Chrome

..they just take your money and vereify that you are the first to register and thus would own an invention or process

Until and unless there is a working demo shown or full whitepaper published, roll your eyes people.

The reason it's there is they get 4+ senators (VA, MD, to some extent WV) and local DC interests/lobbyists on their side. It's a smart strategic play by Amazon