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So you're suggesting the separation of the editorial and peer-review services from the publishing service?

If by 'better Pandora' you mean 'available where I am' then yes, I'd like a better Pandora.

Both the article and summary sound like, "too much information is bad for me because someone else might use it to do something bad."

The orbital mechanics seem to be accurate. Shooting up or down just causes oscillations. To move up or down orbits, fire forward or backward. If you fly too high the game breaks.

By these metrics, I never indulge in escapist entertainment. That can't be right; either I'm incredibly wise, or else the description is incomplete.

A simpler explanation is that the Higgs boson doesn't actually exist. Might want to check that one out before positing chronological paradoxes. This would be a great article for Ap…

Actually, I was trying to direct you away from the sensationalist title, but hey, maybe next year.

"When the debasement rate is 10% and interest rates are 7%, the negative debasement-adjusted interest rate is a debt factory. It is easy for borrowers to make decisions that assume…

They're in-game inspired diagrams. The key is in the paragraph above the start of the 'Unclocked Logic' section. A →o * o→M O o * o B The mechanical power goes in the first →, and …

Ask for a thermos instead of a Dewar Flask. They're the exact same technology, but the term 'Dewar Flask' implies a much higher grade. Remember not to seal the thing airtight unles…

Interesting little theory. I disagree with it, but I want to know what others think of it.

(2) Is most certainly true. If A == B, then B just is A, we're saying A == A. A possible world where B != A is a world where A != A. You seem to believe that A != B even in our wor…

While the walking distance is not optimal, there is an upside. The ice cream vendors will be driven to differentiate their ice cream lines, and the beach dwellers will be able to c…

This would be pretty awesome if the screen were bigger, according to me.

"But for a few quirks of fate - international depressions and world wars - it would probably be the main power source for getting us around." No. The containment requirements for s…

If the reason wasn't technical, what was the reason? The first thing that springs to my mind is that Google calculator is free, and more precision isn't.

On awards. " Basically it’s like going around a party informing everyone that you’ve had sex with a human being last week: I’m sure it matters to you a great deal - and hopefully t…

There is indeed enough variation. I unfortunately can't find the link, but they went further and had people imagine something like the letter 'n,' and of the whopping eight people …

Our thoughts aren't standardized, so you get encryption for free.

So it's true. It's common knowledge, among people who look into it, that universities are utterly perverse and quite doomed.

"Roughly." As in, not exactly. Clearly, atoms moving at a speed of negative infinity don't make any sense at all and violate special relativity. Way to make my point for me.

It will be incomplete in the sense that it will contain axioms with no formal proof. Technically speaking the TOE is this axiom. However, you can even prune these axioms by selecti…