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    1. Vasectomies (+ birth control pills)
    2. animal testing for human research.
    3. I’m sure that anyone working in a hospital can cough up a few dozen more.

    RISUG has been invented in 1978,
    is reversable, cheaper, zero side effects,
    and with so far 0% failure rate when implemented properly,
    Vasalgel, an improvement on RISUG by having a longer shelf-life,
    has been invented around 2015.

    So this stuff has been invented in the same year as the first Star Wars movie,
    had gone through all trials multiple times with flying colors,
    and instead we use knives and pills with large side effects.

    If any invention could be been ubiquitous in use at a much earlier stage,
    then this would be it.
    It could and should have been widely used by the 1980’s.

    For animal testing we have 3D printed human tissue.
    So why test on animals if your question is “Does this stuff work on human tissue?”
    The answer you’ll be getting is whether or not it works on mice.
    Mice are not human.

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    Heating water to set something in motion to generate energy… For example, a nuclear power plant generates electricity based on this principle.

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      I can’t drive my car more than 15 minutes anymore without a portable VR headset to play with. It’s too boring.

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      Surprised it hasn’t been superseded meaningfully? Or surprised people are still using it instead of another better tech?

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        I think there have been great advances in comfort and convenience factors. The toilet itself and the valve system, hasn’t changed in 80 years. It feels like a technology that should have been eclipsed to something more efficient and easier for the sanitary sewer system to handle.

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    It is time for the fax machine to die.

    It has been time for the fax Machine to die for the last 18 years.

    For the love of God somebody, please kill the fax machine.

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      As someone who provides customer support for software that basically turns a Windows server into a giant fax machine, I 100% agree.

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      Need a simple end to end encrypted email solution, and for regular users to understand that solution isn’t Gmail for fax to die. The health and financial sectors are keeping fax alive, and it isn’t completely their fault.

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        Correct me if I’m wrong but fax isn’t end to end encrypted so how is it deemed more secure than email which also isn’t end to end encrypted (by default).

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          Probably a case of legislative inertia and tried-and-true practices. It’s also a thing that’s mostly limited to the US, I feel like. I want to say many other Western countries have digital systems in place (maybe not the BEST digital systems, but something better than fax).

          Fax is not end-to-end encrypted. Not even sure it’s encrypted in transit. But it is also something that doesn’t rely on a third party provider storing all your data indefinitely and then losing it all in a data breach. Of course, that doesn’t stop people from hooking up to a virtual fax service that might store info on a server… but still…

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          I suppose it has more to do with the opportunity for a significant breach. The healthcare provider’s email system is a big target full of exploits. Fax is also HIPPAHIPAA compliant, email is not.

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            Fax is also HIPPA compliant, email is not.

            Yeah I just love having my cancer diagnosis sent in plaintext over copper wire such that anyone with a dollar store audio recorder and physical access to the wire can intercept. If there’s one thing 19th century data transmission tech is known for, it’s security and privacy.

            Is it too much to ask that hospitals use the literally decades old AES standard for sending medical data?

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      I thought houses would look drastically different in the future

      I’m only impressed to learn that the houses for sale in this area for 1.8m are 110 years old and 110x as expensive as when built.

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    Microwave because it is an old tech that was so ahead of its time…
    If it didn’t exist and was invented today it would be such a hit!
    Personally I believe it was invented by aliens or a time traveler.