Imagine if we no longer could see movies or tv made by a single writer anymore, and it all was produced by a big group of "creatives". That would certainly suck.

I do not have a microwave. So no. My neighbours perhaps. But that is hard to find out.

they would fix it so that my IKEA Sonos system did not disconnect one or more speaker form the wifi several times a day.

I pay for youtube premium. I watch far more youtube than Netflix and HBO, so why not? Never see ads. It is a nice experience.

There is a clever concept in Python where you can have multiple statements inside a lambda. You can even split it easily over one or more lines. It is called a "function".

It is not far fetched at all! Chromecast has already offered my phone to recognize it via sound via the chromecast app. So it is already implemented as standard practice. There is no bottom to the depths ...

+300 km range and 30 minutes charge time is probably enough that most of us will be satisfied. So in my book we are already there. Now all that will need to improve is the price, and that will come down radically in the next few years as production quadrouples.

Exactly this. I used to upgrade every time i could get a machine that was 4x faster. I have not really experience anything like that since my core 2 duo. So the machine i got will keep on running until it breaks.

It is normal for european kids to have their own account with a debit card to use for paying stuff with. The card also has account info on it.

If you think that a viable and functioning treatment will keep staying expensive then you have very little imagination. Immune therapy is a hot topic these days, and seem to be very suitable for automation. It actually seem to be best suited for automation. So my best guess is that prices will plummet if it becomes standard.

Stop considering the individual components of a piece of equipment for a unit that can be repaired. It is the wrong layer of abstraction.

In modern electronics a single electronic component has long stopped being the unit of repair. If your electronics gets fried, you change at least the entire circuit board. Personally I rarely get electronics repaired. Rather I will replace.

The new unit of repair is whatever not requires human intervention. A modern phone is assembled by robots so the entire phone is cheaper to replace and get a new phone you know is working. Instead of risking the uncertainty of getting a non-fixed device at unknown human hourly wages.

And as soon as you make more than you want to pull out as personal salary then it is the way most people do it. As far as I remember the rule of thumb is that if you make more than £100.000 a year it is worth doing.

I find it hard to believe that Facebook has no profit generating business in the UK. No UK companies buying adds on the site. So of course laws were broken. If a company makes business in several countries but only report their income in the one with the lowest tax rate then they are cheating on their taxes. There are a lot of financial techniques possible for that.

If a file is copied on their internal network between users they can basically just make a softlink. Pirates can also have a secret stash and then copy from that to a public acount. So after a dcma takedown they just make a new "softlink" from their private stash to the public account. Naturally they will need security when they make the public acount.

As a programmer working on difficult and abstract problems, his method is not that usefull. The example was good for a single simple problem. But that is not really the problems you have when working on difficult problems. And writing visual-feedback software for complex problems would be like writing book authoring software that creates a movie from the book you are writing. It is a good and obvious idea. But absolutely unrealistic for real world problems.

Where it is *very* useful though is for programmers designing software. If we can make our software work like that in their limited domains, then it is a terrific way to solve our users problems.