Women are first held back by their much lower fertility cut-off age. This causes the world to crowd in earlier, wanting babies, marriage, and relationships, distracting and rushing them so they find it harder to take the time and effort to pursue uncertain and uncommon paths.

In a different way women do it to themselves, avoiding founding the big universal services, instead starting companies that sell mainly to other women: fashion, children's products, jewelry, cosmetics, craft, and journalism targeted at women. This indeed applies to the Stanford woman featured in the article. Have women been forced into this ghetto by misogyny, or are they just smartly going where there's little male competition?

With Rbate, the purchaser provides a list of all the places that helped them choose, and credit is divided among these. They create this list by picking from all the relevant information sources they've marked as helpful, which as well as webpages (and Slashdot posts), can be printed material or full-service retailers. These are stored permanently like bookmarks.

As well as allowing credit to be shared among several sources of assistance, unlike affiliate links the helpers don't become part of the selling process, which makes them more independent. You can get an Rbate payment even though you only told someone not to buy something, or for giving general information not related to particular products.

If, say, a Slashdot post helped someone choose a product, Slashdot can get paid for that, which Slashdot can optionally share with the poster in some way (cash or Karma).

Chicken breast, like most tissue, is translucent, and they were trying to demonstrate the ability to take a picture of a target hidden under several mm of such material, at the same time demonstrating the technique's applicability to diagnostic imaging.

If the server was that old, the slot could have had many more insertion cycles than any disk, so it's hard to conclude that disk plugs are more robust than slot sockets. But it'd be good if that were the case. The desktop USB3 SATA hot-plug unit I'm using (with an eject button, so it looks like a toaster), is a lot cheaper than a disk (and doesn't carry any data).

I'd be interested to know what failed, the SATA plug on the disk or the SATA socket on the hot-plug slot?

Rather than a CurrentC discount (or loyalty rebate), they could always try to impose a credit card surcharge. Is it still legal in the US for credit card companies to ban surcharges? Such bans have been made illegal in Australia, so that hidden CC merchant fees don't give them an unfair advantage over other payment methods. Many of the more discount retailers now charge a surcharge of about 2% for paying by credit card, airlines and taxis a lot more. The CC companies ran a scare-campaign, but the government held firm.

In response to news index sites using leading snippets, this inverted pyramid article structure will increasingly give way to click-bait openings.

Sure, but sometimes and to some extent you can help induce that better world by behaving as if the world is what it should be rather than what it is. A noble risk, and you deserve less blame.

Perhaps the cargo transport can be done cheaply, without rockets or heat shields: a rail gun in earth orbit, loaded from a space elevator, and a reverse rail gun channel around Mars to slow them down, with another elevator. Just some thrusters for alignment fine tuning.

Outside the Earth, the solar system is a pretty boring vacuum with a bit of gas and dust. But the insurance policy argument is pretty compelling, and the engineering project would be an exciting way to encourage all nations to work together.

Yes, the anti-competitive nature of such vertical integration is bad for the economy. The links are also bad for the individual because of their distraction, because they turn an independent information source into a sales force, and because they give preferential treatment to one particular vendor.

But Slashdot does something similar with its book reviews.

Palant claims that Adblock is covertly scaling up into something similar to what Adblock Plus has done.

Anyway, I'm not sure these browser extensions are sufficiently complex and hard to maintain that they can't like Adblock Edge be run by volunteers. If anything it's the filter list maintainers who should get our donations. The big adblockers only have scope to "turn evil" to the extent that people don't switch.

Time is money. Hence signatures. But selfies with celebs seem to be the new signature.

I'm envisioning a smartphone app that allows celebs to transfer a time-stamped, location-stamped, and level-stamped crypto-signed badge to people they meet through RFID smartphone bumps. People can display these badges in Facebook posts, and their collection in a Facebook app.

Tradeable bragging rights with minimal imposition on celebs.

Rather than "Read/Watch Now for 1 cent" buttons, the $10 should be distributed to the creators of the content that the author has thumbed-up during the month (eliminating the click-bait problem); or if none, has visited over the month; or if none, distributed equally over all content in the system. Like a subscription, the $10 is always fully spent.

YouTube could get away with this now for an ad-free and higher-resolution experience (their soon-to-launch music subscription service is up this alley). But it would work better when the content subscription covered a large number of providers: newspapers, magazines, video sites, blogs, etc. The problem is that each newspaper wants to have their own subscription so they don't lose revenue from their existing stuck-on subscribers, and because they have dreams of being chosen as the one go-to source for others.

The article's description of the system is too vague to pin it down, but I think you've got the right idea.

Famous people can give someone who they want to reward a personal token like their signature, that can be given to others (as a gift or for money). This can be like a digital version where people can display online their collection of famous badges, each cryptographically verifiable by person, date generated (so you can boast of "before they were famous" badges and "on the day of her achievement" badges), and also level (bronze, silver, gold).

But I'm not sure this is any better than money for more physical rewards, like a lunch date with a famous person.