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Telecoms people are unable to make any protocol which is not profoundly evil. At least it's better than the physical telephone wires.

Pretty okay sea. Nothing special, though.

Terrible standard. Far too many degrees of freedom, lots of vulnerabilities, bloated format.

They do look cool, but are overused now, and are dangerous to make.

Factor analysis is cool, and this probably gets at something deep about the nature of intelligence.

I wanted to like this, and it's a clever idea, but it's not fast to input using this.

Reliable and very versatile.

An okay city, but I think overhyped, and very bad transit.

Sure, it serves useful purposes, but the human body overuses it. "Secrete mucus" is its answer to far too many problems, and it just isn't very well-implemented.

One of my favourite kinds of plastics.

A great stepping stone to things like product quantization.

It cuts things. Handy!

One of the best ways to move objects with oneself.

Cool name *and* a simple problem with deep implications.

Great particle if it was stable. But it isn't.

I can't dislike it too much, because it's worked extensibly for decades, but wow did they not know how to design standards in the past.

Terribly American. Bad urbanism. It is at least better than the empty land which would be there instead.

Could be great for large-scale excavation, but we lack vision.

Who unironically likes this city? Why is it even a city?

Quite possibly my favourite book.

I don't find these aesthetically appealing. But some people do.

Great for feeling smugly superior to people who don't know about them.

Sometimes it's aesthetically appealing. But mostly it's annoying.

An excellent innovation in networking. High bandwidth to many homes at low cost.

Just not a good policy.

Well-placed for raw material for Dyson swarms, but otherwise not interesting.

I'm sad they died.

A great idea with wide applications.

Pretty good way of finding out things. Shame about selection bias.

Obviously these are important to many networks, but diesel traction is simply much less cool than electric.

Great way to rank things.

It's critical to (almost?) all photosynthesis, but it's poorly designed, slow and lossy. I could totally do better.

In its current form, must be destroyed. I am refraining from giving it the minimum score because it does technically allow me to read most research eventually.

Perhaps not the most efficient way to convey information, but an old classic.

Mostly functional, but has such problems with cost-efficiency.

Very elegant foundational result. However, I can't give it five stars, because it is annoying to determine the inputs in nontrivial cases.

I really want to enjoy this for its material properties, but unfortunately it kills you to death.