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Excel_Wizard··on Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
>Yet it was a simple mechanical invention

As a mechanical engineer, this statement baffled me. All manufactured technology exists in the context of the manufacturing capabilities available to the designer. The manufacturing tech had to be tremendously complicated before a decent bike could be made. Hollow steel tubes aren't simple. Ball bearings aren't simple. There is a reductionist viewpoint among "theory" people that misses the trees for the forest.

Excel_Wizard··on To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
"hillary clinton emails" is a topic that is widely published around the web. Autocomplete should pick up on this and recommend it. I even went to the trouble of typing "hillary clinton emai" and no autocomplete suggestions were brought up.

It is a rather suspicious result. Suspicious enough that it is hard not to imagine a deliberate act is behind it. I admit that I don't have any proof.

Excel_Wizard··on It’s Official: This Is Now the Longest Economic Expansion in US History
The Labor Theory of Value is a fun toy model, but it isn't very accurate.
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