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Do you think the current (or future) US governments will apply the DMCA to these trillion dollar companies with the same gusto that they use it to, for example, push Aaron Schwartz…

Another L for life in the USA. Commuting by train fucking rules. I can get up, walk around, sit in the dining car and have a really nice espresso and a croissant which is heated up…

You should absolutely sell / give away your possessions and travel the world with just a traveler's backpack and a medium suitcase. It is fun as heck. Bring a laptop with some hobb…

What online communities are hard to get into or exclusive?

Entire article fails to mention "alienation from one's labor"

Amazon has implemented a password system for RAM delivery. You're supposed to give a password to the deliverer before taking delivery of the RAM, and you're not supposed to send th…

This is the type of thing that the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't guy and his friends refer to as "Pre-Legal activities".

Folks might also be interested in San Fransisco's own "Tenderloin National Forest" https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tenderloin-national-fore... Is there some abandoned parking l…

Culture at some level grows out of biology and physics, it's downstream of those things. The material basis of a civilization will have a tremendous long term impact on its culture…

Not many people know NIST offers a cookbook for perfectly calibrated food https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/metric-si/metric-kitchen/metric...

NIST is a great example of a true Public Good. Also, has anyone else ever used their Randomness Beacon? I once used it to settle an argument in a book club over which book to read …

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Can you point me to more info on that or just tell me? I am curious about reasons to be more optimistic than that book lays out. I would much prefer the Carl Sagan view of the Cosm…

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Maybe americans will start eating Philippino pag-pag? (recycled meat from landfills) https://youtu.be/c7gDBVmgIRA

According to the Economist magazine, the global problem is Chinese people eating more meat.

3-Body-Problem once again vindicated as the scariest possible explanation for the Fermi Paradox

"has made web browsing way slower while all the junk is loading" describes all web development since the 90s

His interview with the old railworker and grease-pen graffiti artist Colossus of Roads was fascinating. Unfortunately I cant find it on youtube anymore with a quick search, otherwi…

He's great, I love his concrete botany videos about weeds thriving in harsh human environments. His tour of the Chicago River is great, and an NYC parking lot that has been taken b…

Germany tests their air raid siren system annually on September 11.

We need to permanently retire the term "sleepwalking into war". When world leaders call for war, prepare for war, threaten war, and then cause as much war as they can, that's not s…

Can someone who understands web UI programming tell me if this would be good for my local agent to use to produce HTML based reports and outputs for me? Or for TUI outputs?

This part had me scratching my head: "the researchers modified a popular approach for demonstrating quantum advantage called random circuit sampling, which was the basis of the fir…