Like an X-Windows architecture, then.

Fair enough. The main reason I commented (aside from a bet peeve about Ockham's Razor and other simplicity principles) is that while psychological problems can potentially stem from complexity, many more seem to stem from a lack of complexity. Individuals with profound autism (defined as needing 24/7 care for life and normally non-verbal or close to it and with an IQ below 50) typically have brains where their neurons, despite branching, tend not to extend far in their brains. So their brain is a network of mostly local connections rather than far reaching ones that extend into distant brain regions. While there may be just as many parts, that clearly seems to be a lack of complexity.

You don't have to play if you don't want to. I would classify that as denial though

You forgot Latina. The lesbian? That would be a hat trick for the checkboxes.

Yah, I like having access to old catalogs to re-watch old favorites. Roku was advertising $3 or so for access to old movies/tvshows/whatevers which might be worth it. Ofc they'll prolly double or triple within a couple of years.

Good. There will always be a place for budget theaters. If the distributors allow it.

One issue with germanium, and even more so with gallium, is the very limited number of sources for them. China controls over 70% of world germanium production, and well over 90% of gallium. Get dependent on one or the other for computing and you are thus dependent on China for computing.

But life is an illoooozhun! Lunchtime doubly so.

I've worked in construction, restaurants, farms, retail and factories, all places heavily populated by the people falling in the lower half of the IQ scale. The majority of dumb people have no more imagination than a sheep, which is why they're also the core Trump voters.

My last three landscape sliders were the Nokia N900, Motorola Droid 4 and F(x)tec Pro1, so they survived longer than that, and all three were in the size range of normal phones.

It's best to assume that banking apps won't work with anything but a non-rooted commercial Android install with its full suite of Google trash. Either that, or the most meticulously rooted systems that can fool all forms of root checking. Banks only want their apps running on walled-garden systems.

The solution for me has been to use banking websites rather than banking apps. This also eliminates the potential issues of banking apps having access to more than what can be seen through the browser, and it will hopefully show the bank that there is still demand for web access.

That's a simplistic principle that I'm sure your father did not actually follow in real life. Plenty of things that increase mechanical complexity actually also increase reliability. For example expansion joints or suspensions in cars. Arbitrary complexity added for no reason, sure, but I am sure that many systems your father worked on not only used lubrication, but had extra systems (adding complexity) to make sure that the other parts stayed lubricated.

That's actually a great example, but maybe not for the reason you think it is. Apparently, the Palisades fire was reignited from a fire that had already been put out and the firefighters on the ground wanted to keep working on it because it wasn't done smouldering, but their higher ups pulled them. So then high winds and other conditions re-ignited it and it caused massive destruction. So, that's actually a really great real world example of conditions where being good and thorough at your job trumps speed. Also of management clock-watching having disastrous consequences.

Several of your other examples present this same issue.

They will still do that without AC, they will just get extra sockpuppet accounts. Plenty already do so that they will post with higher karma and also be taken a bit more seriously.

This may all hinge on how you're defining "extremely productive" (and also "successful"), but most civilizations have actually rewarded the majority of extremely productive individuals with less whippings.