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- humanity will never go beyond 1 gigabit ethernet due to 'the physical limits and energy'

  The complexity and energy requirements of 10GB/s make it improbable at home in the long run, also http://radiomesh.org
- hydroelectric is the only real source of electricity

  It's the only viable alternative to photosyntesis (also powered by the fusion reactor in the sky).
- 3D MMOs are the "final medium" and that they are building one to last 100 years,

  I'm building a MMO engine for eternity, the server hardware is specced for 100 years minimum, could work for 250 years with enough spare parts.
- they made the fastest database and they have 100% uptime,

  100% READ uptime, but very verbose on disk (fixable but I digress)
- 2011 SSDs are the peak of disk space

  They are the peak of writes per bit for the NAND 50nm SLC
- HTTP 1.1 is the 'final transport for humanity'

  Yes.
- java doesn't crash

  It can, but I have never in 20 years seen it happen in a server application; my VR LWJGL MMO has crashed on linux around 5-10 years ago, but I blame that on linux more than Java.
- smaller transistors 'wear out sooner'

  I'm speculating about this one, we'll see.
- anything too hot to hold in their hand will break soon

  Electronics wear out faster with heat, yes.
- load balancers save IP addresses

  Yes, obviously.
- the synchronize keyword in java makes their programs non-blocking

  No, I'm not going to explain this one as the source is there for you to read.
- multi-threading in games gives them 10 frames of motion to photon latency

  Yes, "The Last Guardian" had 10 frames lag on the PS4: http://move.rupy.se/file/20200106_124100.mp4


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