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Comment amazing for its time (Score 5, Informative) 163

It held the equivalent over 70 floppy disks, at the time of its introduction it was a huge leap forward and despite being proprietary it was such a popular format.

Originally SCSI and Parallel-port only (or internal), then it got onto USB.

Iomega also had the Jaz drives, which held 1GB. Hot swappable hard drives was a wild idea, the problem was it had a reputation for major reliability issues and high failures.

Comment Re:Eugenics (Score 1) 70

damn, I forgot the other ones.
There is a mutation which increases the likelihood of surviving Bubonic Plague. Not a big deal nowadays but up until 330 years ago it made a really big difference.
When Covid first started and the Chinese were not being so defensive about it, their data indicated that people with certain blood groups were far more likely to die than people with other blood types. As it happens, my blood group was "low risk" and - even though I was frequently exposed to people who had it - it took almost three years before I caught it myself, and then it was over in around a week. Of course the virus itself had mutated far away from the original version - it turns out that killing (or incapacitating) the host is not a good strategy for a virus and newer variations were less dangerous.

Comment Re:Eugenics (Score 1) 70

Don't play with things you don't understand.
Take sickle cell anaemia for example. It is an extremely unpleasant - and life shortening - condition, but the underlying gene mutation protects against Malaria. If someone inherits the gene from one parent, they have the Malaria protection. If they inherit from both parents, bad news. All this has been known for some time now, and nowadays the gene is probably more trouble than it's worth, except in areas where Malaria is endemic.

Comment Re:Say after me (Score 1) 70

Trump's election interference was a complete success, his opponent seems to have secured around 2/3 of the seats (the final result is not in yet). I'm assuming Trump was really rooting for Péter Magyar against Viktor Orbán (should that now be Loser Orbán?), and his proclaimed support was a false flag operation.

Comment Re:Cognitive decline? (Score 1) 20

I'm not on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, LinkedIn . . . what else is there? I doubt very much that I'm on that either.
This has me worried now, "age-related cognitive decline" has presumably regressed so far that I'm in danger of becoming a pre-teen. Given that AntiSocial Media is a fairly new phenomenon, "age-related cognitive decline" must be something completely new. Pardon my scepticism.

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Journal Journal: Signal, Whatsapp, Telegraph 3

Is it just me or are these three platforms the arena of bad decision making in startup businesses? When somebody tries to lure me off of social media into one of these three platforms, alarm bells start ringing in my mind. If you're leading your business with communications on Signal or Whatsapp, just know that I for one will not be taking your business seriously.

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