Anyone who is doing anything with computers more than fooling around and consuming "content" is a fool to have anything less than triple redundancy.

I learned to take it even a bit further (archives, as well as backups) after a Windows crash in 1993 took out 8 hours of work on a term paper out of about 40 hours total invested. It ate my HD and backup, while in the process of making the backup. The 2nd backup, 8hrs of work ago, saved me from the loony bin.

No one in our present culture can even conceive of the possibility that sometimes not doing anything is the best way to get something done.

You sound like someone who's spent some time in the Orient...

The fact that "research" is even needed, when it's plainly obvious that men have a dick and women have a vagina, considering all which those differences imply, just goes to show how completely idiotic our "society" has become.

WHY? Why isn't the argument being made to do the same thing for men? So we should start punishing anyone who calls a guy a "fag" when the guy wants to wear a woman's dress? And all the "pressure" must be removed that makes men not choose careers in all the fields in which women dominate too.

Isn't all this just a bit absurd?

Doesn't anyone even question the initial assumptions--that "equality" is a good thing?

Who the fuck are we to try to engineer society when 1. we have no predictive model for individual or societal human behavior; 2. we still have barely a clue what our "nature" is? 3. There is no BASIS for asserting that the ratio of women:men in ANY field SHOULD be anything. It's just a made-up goal that someone "feels" like they want. 4. Whatever reason there is for why the ratio in STEM is different now than it once was probably involves at least 10x more variables than nearly anyone is aware of, and stands a good chance of not even involving the variable that most people think is the reason--at all!

Too bad placebos can't treat the stupidity of doctors and people who assume that every illness they don't understand must be hypochondria.

Good luck with that if you have some kind of poisoning. And chronic poisonings can make you feel very down, mimicing mental illness symptoms.

What's a "letter?"

With FPGAs you have to ensure that a toolchain compatible with the particular model of chip is going to be available for that entire timespan, long after the chip has been discontinued--since to date no FPGA vendor has openly documented their low level configuration bitstream generator. Some time after that, the manufacturer's tools will stop targeting the old FPGA. I don't see how it solves anything, just by using an FPGA. The problem may even be worse than with CPUs, where at least for many architectures there are multiple compilers including open-source ones.

All of the things he mentioned except universal healthcare are appealing to a libertarian capitalist as well.

is of course, that you do not own your existence. So if you "threaten" suicide, you may be forced to continue living.

I predict that there will be very little overall objection to this premise in the discussion that follows, as the present culture is rapidly converging toward the complete realization of the nightmare "the personal is the political" in which every aspect of everyone's life is going to be everyone else's business. With the individual a bit player.

Exist, dammit, or we'll put you in prison!

" FATCA is the best thing to happen to US taxpayers abroad in"

Can you clarify what exactly you are trying to say here?

You're just jealous of our freedum!

That's right--ASSHOLE!--you "can't imagine." So why don't you just STFU!?!?!?

You mean the place where hot-headed US shitheads are constantly fomenting chaos?