

Is making pointy sticks necessary? Is flint knapping necessary? Is agriculture necessary? I’m pretty sure there were people asking these questions at each of those milestones of human development.


Is making pointy sticks necessary? Is flint knapping necessary? Is agriculture necessary? I’m pretty sure there were people asking these questions at each of those milestones of human development.
Large corporations don’t buy small companies to make better products. They buy them to eliminate the competition.
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?


Even if we started to build nuclear plants like crazy right now, it would be decades for them to make a real impact. Building a single nuclear plant is very expensive and time consuming. Building up the necessary supply chain to build a lot of them would take much longer. In the meantime, you can build huge amounts of renewables in just a few years for a fraction of the cost, even if you factor in storage.
It’s romantic, but like most romantic ideas it’s not based in reality and potentially harmful. Like urgetnt people have said, being sexually compatible is very important for a long term relationship and finding out whether you are only after you got married might quickly lead to a very unromantic divorce.