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Their website is down, but here's the KickStarter that got them going earlier this year: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smartdeco/smartdeco-furn... I like this, though I'm oft…

I think their issue was not having control over when they leave the vehicle. If the locks are computer controlled, there's risk of a false alarm preventing your exit, potentially i…

Since it's been available, I've preferred Netvibes for RSS: there are already lots of great options outside Google Reader.

I hope that you incorporate some of the ideas Bret Victor has been advocating. He might even be interested in helping directly. If you're not familiar with him or his work, here's …

The previous paragraph covers the issue of conflict between boomers and young generations, touching on the controlling forces of boomers conflicting with newer ideologies. So I thi…

Your analogy fails because the relationship is different. In your example, you're turning off your phone because it's a case of turning off something which makes noise and light at…

The project lead gave a presentation at ICFP 2010 (because the project uses Haskell for some of the key algorithmic portions). The associated PDF is here: http://k1024.org/~iusty/p…

Correct. In the last entry I referenced, he opened saying, "We're getting close to the end of my blog. After today's entry, I only have three left to write. After that, I'll only b…

Obviously! How didn't I guess earlier? Maybe they're in talks with Patri Friedman (aspiring rationalist around the SIAI crowd, notable for role in Seasteading Institute). Silly, bu…

I'm sure many of you are familiar with Steve Yegge and his (Drunken) Blog Rants. He's a languages guru, opinionated about a lot of topics I care about, and had been at blogging for…

Sounds like you should be going to the Singularity Summit to talk to other people who devote their lives to this issue. Nick Bostrom's Simulation Argument details the most obvious …

You would just need to break out the gensyms to resolve the differentiation issue.

For those truly interested in improving their rationality, http://www.lesswrong.com is in a similar format to Hacker News and is dedicated to the subject. More directly addressing …

Your statement makes some unsafe assumptions. Mental state has a strong effect on ability to reproduce and raise offspring. Cancer rarely has an onset early enough to be a factor i…

On dispute, dereference your word->concept pointers: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/02/taboo-words.html