The ramifications of what's implied are numerous and cover every aspect of our future.

Only if your understanding of cloning is based entirely on sci-fi movies and TV shows.

Cloning is a difficult procedure to create an organism that's (mostly) genetically identical to a different organism. It will no doubt become easier in the future, but will always require more effort than the regular means of procreation.

Why do you think this lends itself to the creation of "slave classes"? There is currently no shortage of stupid people. In fact, the lower your requirements, the wider the selection.

If you're talking about "below-normal" intelligence - if we ever find ourselves in a society where it's legal to create slaves of purposefully sub-human intelligence, then we'll have much bigger problems to worry about.

Unfortunately, that's not what the decision means: cDNA isn't "synthetic DNA", it's derived from mRNA and is a widely used tool in genetic research.

Most "commercially useful products" actually involve RNA, not DNA.

have about 100k lines of VBA code in Access that would be downright painful to rewrite in .NET, and completely unwritable on any *Nix platform.

Bet you could do it in, like, 17 lines of Perl.

Who's rising up? People just got sick of the hype quicker than usual, because there was more of it.

Hype. Image. Bullshit.

Sure, sure... most real currencies don't go through that every two weeks, though.

Or to peaceably assemble them, I guess.

TV computer systems and "viruses" have very little in common with real-world computer systems and viruses.

A young, single male is an automatic 'brogrammer' now?

Leaping to faulty conclusions from spotty data is basically my day job, but it seems these people take it to a new level.

30% of breaches will be from SQL injections, because that's the percent they found to be vulnerable?

A certain type of attack will increase because they googled some shit?

What the actual fuck is this?

How nice of the BitCoin people to provide examples of that, again and again.

Yeah, I still don't really see how "can be used in a car" is preferable to "can be used indoors".

I still don't get the mirror display thing - are they cheaper or something? I don't believe that anyone would actually decide that "yes! the one where what you see is a) your face and, distant-second, b) whatever you're trying to work on, is the way to go!"

Am I missing something? The only matte displays I can find anymore are Lenovo T-series and a few specific Dells. It's just weird.

You're an even shittier person than you though: you didn't think at all about the families and friends of the millions of other people currently dying of cancer and other illnesses.