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"Elites have basically rigged all of society so that, increasingly, one must deploy the cognitive skills possessed by elites to successfully navigate the social world."

I had always wondered whether there was a missile that was spin stabilized with minimal control surfaces like this one. They mentioned it only had two control fins, but not whether…

Last week I watched an old Nova episode[0] about a harrowing attempt to restore a B-29 that had been abandoned 50 years prior a few hundred miles outside Thule. It turns out that G…

How to become a billionaire: 1. Start a company 2. Issue 1_000_000 shares to yourself 3. Find a friend who owes you a favor, then issue another share in the company and sell it to …

I remember seeing a documentary a long time ago called Overland to America that documents similar travails, including a failed attempt at driving across the Bering Strait in one of…

This makes a lot of sense if you consider that increasing the supply of money is not enough to cause inflation on its own- there also has to be scarcity. Healthcare is scarce becau…

When I played around with 3d printers a number of years back, I tried a few free programs such as Blender, FreeCAD and Sketchup, but I found OpenSCAD for modeling and Meshlab for p…

Science Talk has been a longtime staple of mine: http://rss.sciam.com/sciam/science-talk I know you asked for conversations/talk and John Green's The Anthropocene Reviewed is a mon…

I'm finding the article's arguments pretty unconvincing. eBook prices might be high, but as I've grown older I've realized that the price of the content is typically well below the…

It kind of frustrates me that I keep seeing UBI being described as a sort of unemployment assistance. Unless you drop the "U", a UBI is something EVERYONE receives- the separation …

I think it was that same article that inspired me to write an iOS app that displays your running average speed and notifies you if you deviate from it. It's been years since I've l…

Back in the early 'oughts, the advent of peer-to-peer filesharing systems inspired a number of projects and companies to be founded with the goal of applying P2P technologies to mo…

Our ability to produce manufactured goods has very little to do with our ability to build infrastructure. Construction productivity in the U.S. is actually DROPPING: https://www.ec…

The Mindful Geek ( http://a.co/egwKvoo ) could be a good starting point for the HN crowd. I'm about halfway through it and I enjoy the no-frills explanations of various meditation …

I had more questions about the specific parameters they were using, so I followed the link ( http://carboncounter.com/ ) in the article and checked out the "Customize" tab. Pretty …

The conclusions of this article have far more implications for the future of blockchain technologies than for the future of databases. Bitcoin and Ethereum and their ilk have, out …

Artificially-lit indoor farming is neato and will be a great technology to bring into space, but makes almost no sense on earth. Basically, it requires expensive infrastructure and…