I did read the article, and I understand that while you might not be able to read, you can look at the pictures and see the woodgrain finished HDF.

That's a condenser. Condensers get wet and unfinished wood, and especially unfinished wood "products" in direct contact with moisture is a bad idea.

1) I have seen corner molding with a deep bend like that before and I was really surprised when I went searching on home depot and couldn't find anything quite like it 2) It's still an interior material in an exterior wet application. The stuff isn't even finished on the ends! Cobbled or not, the wood version just seems like a bad material choice.

All of this makes sense except for point 3. Subscriptions and businesses taking advantage of subscribers forgetting to cancel have been around for at least a century in the US alone. What makes you think something like this will become industry standard any time soon?

You're thinking Beggars in Spain and OP is thinking Starship Troopers. I'm thinking it's unsettling to have to worry about biotech and AI dystopias at the same time.

Note that the only choice that contained "I'm familiar with it" was the "ambivalent" one. Great comment on all the loudmouths.

Social media is an inherently annoying service. Facebook is the largest social network out there, thus it has more people hating it the same way more Americans hate the IRS than the Polish Ministry of Finance.

If a robot is not sophisticated enough to obey orders that aren't hardcoded, is it in violation of the second law?

for all those end users who still can't read manuals.

I thought vultures employed police, not the other way around.

I this story went up as I hit submit on it.

'nuff said.

The saying is great advice. The problem is that people think it applies to improvements. In terms of cost vs. benefit there is no reason to go through the hassle of fixing/replacing something if what you fixed is will give you the same crappy benefits for the same obscene cost as before you started. Actually improving something whether in terms of efficiency or features is another story.