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> Scientists used to be aristocrats interested in truth. These days they're just > interested in grants. I'm not sure if that's actually what you're advocating, but personally I'm …

If you had never listened to a professional play piano before then you'd have no idea what level of performance is possible. Similarly, if you had never seen skilled skaters perfor…

There's plenty. The vast majority of the 'shell' would be solar concentrators - basically aluminium foil or something like it. You can make a LOT of that by dismantling a few aster…

I really like that you mention the geographic restriction clearly, and on the landing page. I'm based in Japan, and often look at remote job boards. It's frustrating when you have …

I disagree with the last part of this sentence. I know a lot of developers, the vast majority of whom have preferred Apple laptops for years, and very few of whom develop in Object…

> Three hundred regular bits results in 600 possible states (2 x 300) Wait. What?

Could you explain the difference? Isn't the longest chain the one with the most cumulative proof of work?

Sure, but it's a lot easier to switch on a light than to turn your tent inside out.

Not necessarily; > From Spring 2017, firm directors can each be fined up to £500,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office, if they are found to be in breach of the Privacy and …

Services like TransferWise and Xoom are great, provided both parties have access to good banking services. But, a lot of the remittances market is people working in a foreign count…

How utterly pointless is it to say "This experiment will fail" - they seem to have missed the point of what an experiment is.

It looks like the link is broken.

I'm sorry, but the website is virtually unusable. A few barely-comprehensible paragraphs of hyperbolic sales talk, and links to the shop. Explain to me what your product does, and …

I think the article's conclusion, that a camera should not have been included, is naive. Smart glasses with no way to get visual input from the environment would be a much less use…

That's true, but what I'd really like is to be able to change the way the TV itself behaves. For instance, my Panasonic TV will automatically switch to the HDMI input if I turn on …

I haven't figured out why some chinese manufacturer doesn't make a TV with software that is hackable and replaceable by design. I'm fairly confident that a hacker community would s…