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This is an excellent project! Congrats and thanks for sharing! (LLM writing notwithstanding)

I wonder if it would be a good base to create a kids phone / yogurt-cup telephone: no screen, no keyboard, just a box and figurines, and to call someone up you put the figurine on the box. It could be boxes-only (only people with a box can call or be called) or it could be more general: kids only have boxes and figurines, but the machine is able to call actual phones.

I think even as an adult I would enjoy that.

Yeah I think that's what happened. Still a bit unfortunate though for presenting such a nice project.

> and to have highly desirable mates

The younger generation doesn't seem to date much, and this appears to be true in most countries.

The Carosses à cinq sols was not just an idea but a startup proper; Pascal invested most of what he owned for a sixth of the business, which turned out to be a great investment.

The main idea behind it was a kind of time share. At the time, only the (very) rich could afford to own and maintain carosses and stables with 6 to 10 horses in crowded cities like Paris; it was a truly revolutionary idea that a company would own the cars and the horses, and the general public would pay only for the time traveled.

Then the other genius idea, of course, was fixed routes and predictable schedule, as explained in the post. People actually objected at first that it would be stupid (and ruinous) to have empty carriages going from one place to another instead of chasing customers like a modern cab. But that was the whole point.

Yes, that is so true. Sleep should mean sleep with both eyes closed! not nightwatch.

But Windows isn't the only one to blame. Macbooks do the same (they're less bad because they boot so fast, turning them off completely isn't that painful).

I have the same symptoms on my work PC (HP Probook) but can't apply the fix due to not having admin rights on the machine! ;-(

Resolve to porn.

> filling the need for labor in jobs that are too physically stressful or too dull for humans to want to do

That's a disturbing sentence. Most jobs are "dull". Peolpe work not to fill their otherwise empty existence, but in order to earn money. Dullness could be solved by making the tasks less dull, or empowering employees (even if the term has been abused).

The sentence is also dishonest. Businesses want robots to save costs and increase profits, not to make their employees happier.

Yes! And the server isn't really a server, it's still "in process" so it stays lightweight and simple. This is absolutely fantastic.

Wasn't the positioning of Tesla "electric" cars??? Now they make rockets, that will probably never be street legal anywhere? And the public likes it? From a man who did the Nazi salute and destroyed USAid (killing thousands of children in the process)? What's wrong with people.

Yes! This is a heartwarming story. But the opposite is true. If you happen to piss off a crow, your life will become very difficult. You might as well move towns.

There's a third dude missing in that list to complete the new axis of evil: Netanyahu, without which Trump, as stupid as he may be, would probably never have attacked Iran.

This is just speculation with zero facts. Anyone can come up with those explanations; the interesting part would be to either prove or disprove them.