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Well they are replacing scientist(or lab assistants) and doctors, who is to say any human endeavor can't be automated?

That seems to be the right way to fight these things, if those that have been abused as children are against this law, then this law isn't to protect the children, but to simply pu…

I don't they are so much coming back, as they are probably moving to some other country (e.g. India).

Wait there was a xkcd comic about that: http://xkcd.com/605/ Speaking of 'necessity as the mother of invention' were there any research on how to increase birth rate? I remember so…

I'd say he was probably going for more uniqueness factor. Lack of care of capitalization, shows just that - lack of care and possible desire to break the norms. You would be right …

You can call it a heuristic or a guideline, but I consider them essential. Perfectly rational agents without empathy can commits massive acts of evil trying to achieve their goal. …

I'd like slightly disagree. I do think more people needs to be analytical but without empathy and morality all hacker qualities would be rendered meaningless and pointless. As a ha…

It may or may not be. It's not false but neither is it true. Strictly logically speaking. And in a sense both can be considered as different pleasures - eating derives joy from tas…

I doubt it. If evolution really needed death then why does an immortal jelly-fish ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula ) exist? Granted their final life stage is a …

I'd like to see him explaining http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect or how Gary Kasparov was beaten (well tied at first) by a computer. I mean did Gary got really dumber in sp…

I'd say plethora is wrong at least in US. Ridiculous retroactive copyright extensions would be my main gripe (though I doubt Grooveshark has any works that are about to become publ…

Or how another cheap "Yo dawg" joke started.

Sorry to nag, but how is outputting to LLVM bitcode not interpreting? You are taking source code and turning it into intermediate form (i.e. LLVM bitcode), no?

Indeed I also quite liked his RSAnimate talk on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

Why waste bombs. If you can create wormholes at arbitrary locations just teleport piece of a star into a planet.

"Let's link to a internally consistent version of Groups that doesn't look like the old familiar one..." Fixed it for you.

I doubt it will be that drastic. I'd really like to see how this plays out. I get the feeling like the Zenith of USA has passed but overall I could just be that my info sources are…

There will always be unknown things and things to achieve! There is still nuclear fusion, computer brain interface, genetic engineering, inhabiting other planets. Figuring out how …

Correction: automation can replace doctors and researchers (which principally work with their mind). http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090402-robot... http://news.bbc…

I'd like to address your WoG example. Firstly there are two types of pirates. Those that don't have the money to ever buy, those that have money. The first (and arguably largest gr…

Umm, I'd say Scala is to Java what C# was to Java. It cleared some things at expense of come other things. Overall it's pretty cool language (I rarely use :P).

What does cons operator mean? Concatenation? Constructor? Other than hello world I haven't done much Scala.

Didn't Stephen already linked to Fantom :P (which is quite a coincidence since Fantom uses Hg as it's DVCS of choice).

Disclaimer I like Fantom and it is my language of choice. That said, I agree he (Stephen) for every fault he finds Scala finds a way to recommend Fantom. That strikes me as dubious…