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Unrealized futurism predating both in magazine form was Popular Mechanics and Popular Science hype of Moller skycars as the original goat, and virtual reality being a close second.

Vaporware hype.

Just another brick in the wall.

Ideally, only sufficiently sturdy homes should be allowed in risky areas. The absurdity of the current situation is subsidizing risky behaviors of people who choose to live in hazardous areas and socializing the inevitable costs onto everyone else when FEMA and/or insurance step in to rebuild in the same risky locations with the same substandard construction and expecting a different result.

Procedures make money, and a nonzero fraction of dentists are all about selling more procedures and add-ons that offer negligible value because they want $$$.

It goes back much farther than that as it's a practice of successful business people since time began. One much older example of it in written form would Napoleon Hill 1928 "Lesson 9: The habit of doing more for than paid." What it comes down to is cultivating customer goodwill by offering additional value that doesn't cost a lot to encourage more sales via network effects as referrals, and in the modern era, 5-star ratings and shares on social media.

Reminds me of a plot of device of the 90's movie Shooting Fish where they were scamming businesses selling an AGI computer but were actually controlling responses with a human in another room.

While some people argue for verbose, semantic-meaning variable and function names, I believe taking this to the extreme is counterproductive, especially for internal code that could otherwise be far more terse. Like antipatterns in Java, C++, or Rust, the more stuff there is at a lower density on the screen, the harder it is to follow. For internal bits, single letter variables should be favored.

No, you're being unreasonable because that's not the goal at all. The goal is to minimize variations while still allowing the possibility of variations that traditional distros like dnf/RPM Fedora/RHEL disallow without jumping through hoops such as renaming/prefixing or alternate toolsets like scl.

Insurance and regulatory hurdles are far higher than contracts selling future electricity customer purchase agreements and likely to doom almost all new nuclear projects in the US as they have for the past 50 years. I don't see why an amoral customer would care about the specific source power as long as it's cheapest, but even a socially-conscious customer would probably be okay with renewables if and when they are generally the cheapest option. Perhaps there are a handful of specific datacenter locations and requirements in particular areas that would be better suited to geothermal or nuclear.

> This term has lost whatever meaning it ever had if we're using it to refer to binding contracts.

If a technological solution is optimistic and remains vaporware possibly forever, then it maybe "virtue signaling" is if there more nonfunctional desire for it that outstrips practical or economic utility. A better term would be "vaporware" when there is less social puritanism involved, and I don't think coal or nuclear signal anything of redeemable greenwashing value compared to cheaper renewables combined with PES and distributed grid storage.

I'm still a little worried about the toxicity of graphene-based products that they might turn out to be another "asbestos".

It should supplement and facilitate improved office dynamics and less interruptions rather than supplant interaction with proscribed, transactionalized objectification of people. Not everything more efficient should or has to be dystopian.

Jerks and dorks disrespect others, with the differentiator being intention. If they don't get the hint, then it's probably time for a teachable moment or assertion of boundaries.