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I'd love to see an enormous version of this harmonic motion demonstration. ( http://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyw... )

Here's a not very good example using hair and a car stereo ( http://youtu.be/4s_lpBkdoNc )

I apologise if I've been too harsh on Soylent. I have, previously, been strongly against Soylent. I'm against some of the techniques they're using to sell it now. But I'm trying to…

Soylent is being sold as a complete food. We've seen a couple of mistakes during the testing process. The ingredients list is not easy to find, and the sources of those ingredients…

I get all that. It's great. It's a shame that they (and many of their prospective customers) appear to be unaware of the existing liquid feed products. Eventually they claim they'l…

Yes, it has some grams of fibre. I'm not sure what form the fibre is in, or how much. It's on their website somewhere.

So you don't know? Yet you're happy for them to sell it as safe for everyone, as providing optimal nutrition, as bring people to perfect health, as being tested, when we don't know…

> Why does everyone seem to think that Soylent is "for every meal, everyday"? Because they're selling it as that. Perhaps Soylent could consider reading these threads and improving…

> It's not going to kill you, or mess up your health How do you know?

To disrupt the industry Soylent need to know what that industry is. So far I haven't seen any sign that they have any idea about what going on in that domain. There's a bunch of st…

> assuming it's not missing any major dietary component It has some fibre, but it's missing solids. Who knows if that's important or not? They claim it has a long shelf life. I'm n…

Soylent have some fierce competition. Liquid feeding is not new. Many companies do it already. Liquid feeding for developing world also isn't new. There are a number of foods devel…

The drug has been used to treat the condition for nearly 60 years.

> prescribed medication for this truly bullshit condition concocted by the modern age. Ritalin is nearly 60 years old.

Well, no. Now we know what we don't know, rather than assuming we do know something. And when we specify one font over another we can say honestly "Because I like it" rather than d…

He crashed significant parts of the Internet, causing considerable alarm amongst sysadmins. His father was working for NSA at the time. I seem to remember he went to his father and…

> That means that if someone steals your card or your smart-ring, you’d better report it stolen pretty quickly. Well, yes. But you'd hopefully have a master passphrase to open the …

This is briefly mentioned in Clifford Stoll's book "The Cuckoo's Egg" (which is great read). It's a fascinating story. I also like his father's (or maybe it was his?) idea for a sp…

Passwords are lousy. Really lousy. As you point out the problem isn't with the security of them (when properly applied) but because it's all just so klunky and annoying and differe…

Plea bargains are weird when used as a weapon to intimidate someone. There's something vaguely similar with people (at least in the UK) wrongly convicted and sent to prison. To qua…

Have you spent any time in prison? Have you visited anyone in any prison? Which federal prison do you suppose Mr Swartz would have been sent to if he had been convicted?

> It was not at all realistic to think a 35 year sentence would have been handed down for downloading scientific papers, even in America. It's easier to say this when you're not fa…

> Not sure why PG has not said anything publicly I find your comment bizarre. > this very sensitive issue. > Not sure why PG has not said anything publicly Why should PG talk publi…

Given the quality of a lot of Facebook comments any of the Loebner Prize bots would have a reasonable chance of passing as human. ( http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html…

The ultimate story is of the Anandtech forums, where someone invented a woman, sockpuppeted her on the forums, romanced her on the forums, got married, had a child (or she already …