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Yep, Permutation City - the human brain was scanned at super high resolution (was able to snapshot the current state of all cells). Then it was able to be run in a simulated world …

They look like they might be harder to solve then normal mazes. Usually I just follow a wall for a maze. Would that work here?

I don't know, bitcoin is nice as it makes an easy international currency, even for financially isolated countries (aka "axis of evil"). I can see bitcoins being used as well to buy…

This was were I was quite surprised as well. Blizzard is always in a fight against cheaters, and it is required since their games are competitive in nature.

Thank you for the chuckle.

I think you might have got to the the main issue. It is not like there is a cultural pressure to keep the pay for a programmer down, because that would break down quickly if there …

Why do you not like this?

What alternatives to skype exist? Something that does voice, and not likely to invade my privacy.

Anyone want to do the summary?

Yippy, the more the goverment tries to control the internet, the more it will go underground, and the more tor will gain in strength.

Can you limit bandwidth with AWS? Also, why would the spreadsheet be calling these images every hour. Did you have the spreadsheet open? Does google do this call even when no one i…

You have two separate arguments twisted into one. 1) Getting rid of the war on drugs would be a good thing. As it would save money and not cause as much crime (drug war causes crim…

Javascript sandbox for node.js: https://github.com/gf3/sandbox It allows you to run potentially malicious js code on the server.

So if you remove the restriction on subpenny increments, you remove the need for HFT?

One of the joys of being a contractor is the complete lack of shame at leaving at 5pm, and being happy when asked to work later (aka get more money). As a salaried worker I was eas…

Here is an idea. Simplify the actual terms of service. The TOS can be what was written under the "Basically" parts. There is no rule that a TOS has to be convoluted.

Beyond the one fuzzy source that has been repeated my numerous media outlets, is there any evidence that this is actually going on? Any blogs where people are ranting about a speci…

After a lot of experimenting on a wiki hosting service I run (editthis.info), I found that putting ads way at the bottom of content, and just putting one ad tended to work better t…

There is a set of knowledge in the world. It is vast, but much of it has already been contributed to wikipedia. The knowledge of the world continues to grow, but I don't think at t…

I am surprised they haven't also added a pay per article feature. I am very non-committal about subscriptions, but might fork over a buck to read one article.

Tragedy of the commons? Perhaps you could explain a bit as to how this is the case?

They should have charged more. It is obvious that demand was way more than supply. When demand is too high, you raise prices to decrease demand to match with your supply. When you …