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> Equating education with work is kind of silly. Equating education with school is kind of silly. Government (public) school is just about the worst environment for learning. But I…

If a supercomputer can simulate a model, what would it take to simulate a supermodel ? 'Cuz that would be "handy" for me ...

I don't know what effect neurotransmitter precursors have on endogenous production, which is why that information would be useful so we can better judge their safety. The steroid e…

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Wow. I wish the U.S. were a Christian nation then. School half-days were a rare reprieve... those lucky kids get 'em all the time! I aPERUve.

Great, now I'll get 50,000 "Reduce Your Size" spams a day instead. Hmm, those could actually be useful...

You know you're thinking it.

12.5m users is pretty impressive considering what they're up against. Facebook is vulnerable. The obvious way to hijack is to pull a Facebook on Facebook itself -- ask for your FB …

"Plan B (R) is not a substitute for routine birth control. It's important to remember that Plan B (R) does not protect you from HIV infection (the virus that causes AIDS) or any ot…

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8-year-olds should write my code.

There's a converter for 2.x to 3.x. Or you can transition code by hand -- there are some differences in some places. Breaking backward compatibility just means not everything is gu…

Freedom? Oh oh, Million dollar idea: Time travel buddy movie with Einstein and William Wallace. Call it Brainheart. (Million dollar, as in the revenue. I.e. a complete flop.)

And even then, sometimes you still need Steve Jobs.

Yeah, Chuck Norris.

"Markram believes that with the state of technology today, it is possible to build an entire rat's neocortex, which is the next phase of the Blue Brain project, due to begin next y…

"Two years on, he has already developed a computer simulation of the neocortical column - the basic building block of the neocortex, the higher functioning part of our brains - of …

> Since I have a really terrible memory, I would jump on a memory drug in an instant. I also have a terrible.... umm... what's it called... Oh, look, a pony!

GIYF. "Dimethylaminoethanol is related to choline and is a biochemical precursor to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine" (ACh). "In the central nervous system, ACh has a variety of …

Django -- Django Reinhardt Drupal -- RuPaul?

In the sense that every human is one of the 7 billion best...

> Why do you need to maintain control? Greed? Paranoia? The idea is too complex for others to understand? (note: none of these are good reasons ;) ) Note that maintaining control i…

This is a very silly article. Storage gets progressively cheaper. If it costs 2^18 dollars to store it today, it'll cost $2^17 to recopy it next year, $2^16 the year after that, an…