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No, it's correct. The light actually gets slowed down in material (anything else than a vacuum.) That has nothing to do with observation, it's an actual physical effect. The speed …

Be careful who you call a dictator. While Ataturk has been President of Turkey for 15 years (until his death in 1938) he encouraged a multi-party system. However, during his lifeti…

Serious people don't care about games.

I agree with you on the energy balance thing, I don't agree Lulz is creating that energy. What we're seeing is the consequence of letting docs you want to keep a secret out. Lulz i…

Is this the prototype of the cheap product that's been promised years ago (although it still uses platinum & titanium)?

The euro is fine, the EU banking system - including UK banks - are not. Banks are too big, why can't I pay with my phone like is possible in Africa? We're gonna have to bleed one w…

"Scientific certainty" is not a popularity contest as you describe. Everybody can agree and still be wrong. Einstein's work is a good example of that.

I would be happy to leave it to academics if they hadn't transformed into a political body. Too late.

The canonical problem of health insurance is not profit making, it's that most of the people who contribute have to be excluded from receiving benefits. Not sure how a distributed …

There's also operation turkey: http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=1005

+1 for reprap link.

1/ Calculate which mobile subscription on the market would be cheaper based on your mobile activity of previous months. Needs a way to keep track of hundreds of subscription rules …

It comes from the book Business Model Generation: http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/ A very very good book, I can recommend it. The way the book was written is also very inspi…

The medium is the message. This means any alternative money systems that would be based or linked to our current forms of money will always suffer from the same problems we're faci…

I would swap snake oil salesman Kurzweil for Clay Shirky's institutions vs collaboration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPQViNNOAkw

"You'll note there's lots of uncertainty, but a rough rule of thumb is that each doubling of carbon dioxide will raise the temperature around 3 degrees Celsius. Of course people lo…

This is the raging Ayn Rand view. Net neutrality is a valid concern for government since it's res publica : a common good that can only be achieved when every citizen have it. Indi…

Exactly what I mean with linguistic/logic side-effects.

Both "rationality" and "free will" are vague terms. Your line of questioning won't get you anywhere beyond linguistic/logic side-effects.

Actually, it's not financial illiteracy that's killing us. Image for a moment that we were financially literate, what would be able to do that we are not able to do today and what …

Macros are important, that's why I seeking guidance in Let Over Lambda . The most suitable lisps for writing macros are lisp-2, hence the preference for a lisp-2 dual namespace.

It might one day become a general lisp for javascript but for now the concurrency-free server-side environment of node.js is assumed.

I've scanned the Parenscript docs and it doesn't seem immediately obvious how to combine node.js and Parenscript without having to include Common Lisp. Also, there's a number of th…

Thanks for the reference to Parenscript which I'm unfamiliar with. The main point of lisp.js is to benefit from node.js' event-loop/non-blocking-i/o environment. node.js will be ab…