The idea is that if they're chained together in the direction of flow they have less probability of hampering with each others' flow. But if they're lined up perpendicular to the flow wouldn't that just cause a clog?

I'll respond to your proposal directly and point out the flaws. Patent trolls only exist because a) the patent system exists and b) it's not possible to differentiate the "trolls" from the legitimate inventors. Either you solve b) and remove this problem of trolls altogether, or any solution targeting patent trolls would altogether undermine a). So in short, your solution is the roundabout way of removing the patent system.

Is going to know the master character's password, dig a tunnel through the sewage, and get the warden arrested!

Sure this is a site for nerdy news, but this literally has no impact on anything. It's just a number.

Can someone in the know help interpret the article? Is this an engineering breakthrough or a scientific breakthrough? From my understanding the wavelength of light is a physical limitation to optically viewing small objects. Does this somehow provide us a way to go beyond that limit or is this simply getting closer to it?

It's also speedier than the full blown mouse-driven GUI. This retains that one. Also ls/grep for navigating is sometimes better/sometimes worse than folder with icons for navigating. This seems to allow you to mix the two. I think the idea is very nice and can probably be tweaked to make it a viable default CLI.

Or solar sails. Momentum can come in the form of a photon :)

Also gravity assists were used in the Voyager mission.

Comfortable velocity basically means any velocity at which you can reach your destination. As space is mostly a vacuum, reaching escape velocity seems to be the biggest obstacle to getting off this rock so far.

By "junk", I do mean things like the hydrogen you see every so often. If the goal is to reach the destination eventually, as long as you are moving closer relative to the next piece of hydrogen, you will eventually get your reaction mass.

Reaction mass doesn't have to come from within the craft itself. See airplanes, where air is used. It's conceivable that we can find a way to harness all that junk out there in space. Plus, keep in mind that once you've reached a comfortable velocity, the only change in momentum you'll need is for navigational purposes. And considering there isn't really all that much junk out in space (the universe is mostly empty), navigation might not be as necessary as you might think.

Also most people don't watch and hope for cheese. They watch hoping for a good show - some new variation on a well known strategy in the current metagame or some novel response to a build order. They want to see mind games going on without the players directly communicating with each other. None of that is information asymmetry.

Last point is, playing at anything above diamond level is exhausting. After a few games I just want to relax. Then sometimes I'll play less serious formats like custom games or 4v4 games. Other times it's good to just put on a youtube video of a game and see how pros played the build order that I or my opponent had played.

I can theorize as well. Their methodology doesn't seem much more accurate than an educated guess.

As for the topic itself, from personal experience, watching has not much to do with the additional info that the audience has, because most live streams aren't good enough at highlighting such things. The players themselves are much more attuned to the timing and rhythm of their game and even if one player can't see what the other is doing directly, he is usually more expectant of it happening than the audience can be. In many cases, he knows exactly what the other player is doing with high probability be being correct without having direct knowledge of it.

To me, watching is fun because I know how to play the game. And I know that everything the pros are doing on screen takes tons of research and practice to get right. Some are physically impossible for me to do (the speed of their clicks and key presses, for example). From playing the game, I've learned to appreciate what goes into every little action I see on screen.

I think the breakthrough is the speed improvements to do this in real time on reasonable commodity hardware?

Yea it's pretty silly indeed. Though the thought can be worded less combatively, the idea itself is pretty amusingly ridiculous indeed.

dimension. Yes - we get our "knowledge" from experts just as people of faith do. But the difference is with science, everyone can test and observe the same claims. Maybe only one person ever has witnessed the described effects of that particle accelerator, but the process is fundamentally trustworthy enough that we don't need to bother to test his claims. That is not to say that we CANNOT test his claims. If someone else has enough funding and time he can do the same thing.

Agreed. This is quite obvious. The report would be more interesting if they factored out those components.