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The headline is link bait. That article involved neither murder, nor suicide.

Bah! I feel the extreme total opposite. When he kicks the robot, I'm deeply disturbed by the fact that the robot is undaunted. I've always chalked it up to an uncanny valley reacti…

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...and besides, any self-respecting movie buff knows that all the best movies are shot in anamorphic widescreen, with no less than a 2.35:1 aspect ratio.

I often find myself typing "ducksuckgo" or "suckduckgo" on soft keyboards, and I smile every time...

If it was Hal Finney, then we'd actually know who it was. There would be a degree of closure. Without that closure, there's a mysterious gaping black hole that only adds to all the…

Not only that, why should bitcoin be enshrined as the only special crypto-currency worthy of recognition? Not until we know who Satoshi Nakamoto is. Until then, bitcoin is just ano…

I can't claim to know anything about naval nuclear engineering. My intuition tells me that avoiding runaway criticality and avoiding crew contamination are high priorities. Based o…

So what's the baud rate? I might guess something like one bit, every 10 seconds?