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I think that's a different company - it's not even in Texas.

Because people help themselves to food, everyone takes like 1/2 meat and then the first six people take 1/2 veg as well. I agree, for single serving meals like sandwiches that are …

As a vegetarian fed by ZeroCater, it feels like a lot of the time the thinking goes something like 'we have 20 meat-eaters and 3 vegetarians - let's get 20 lamb/chicken shish kebap…

I totally would. I just got a MaKay MaKey because it's a cool thing that lets me tinker around a little and do some fun stuff, without the commitment of having to get a ton of sold…

My perspective is this: I want to make really awesome intelligent tutoring systems. I'm inspired by Enders Game, Diamond Age, and the Aristotle essay by Hillis. I want to do this b…

Well, the premise of The Dispossessed is that the anarcho-syndicalist society actually becomes an oppressive monolithic power. As a result, the protagonist is unable to find an out…

I haven't had exposure to the hacker houses on the West Coast, so I can't really speak to that. The motives of hackers I've known usually have to do with impacting the world and ma…

Because some people might not know: Wobbly=member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a union opposed to capitalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_Worl…

So part of the problem is their alternatives to capitalism. Which are mostly primitivist (as in, destroy infrastructure) communist (in the central planning, grey way depicted in i.…

The communities of kids like that that I know make circuses and free schools and are extraordinarily well-read.

I agree - I think it's somewhat cultural. That community has a lot of good ideas, but few fleshed-out solutions, which are harder and require more technical/modeling skills. It's h…

It was totally sexy. I think the answer is free copies of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon in every soup kitchen ;)

There's something in between wasting talent and becoming a worker bee. I was part of a similar community and found it disenchanting because I wanted to make new things. So I left, …

I'm a 23 year old with purple hair, but I'm also a PhD student at a top 10 university for computer science. I've hung out in tons of squats and punk houses, and briefly been a stre…

He doesn't actually say what the positive correlation is, which I find disingenuous and suspicious. Because his scatterplot is so non-detailed, it's about as useful as the followin…

Vi Hart, who produces these videos, now works at Khan Academy. She's also one of the people to make tau (as an alternative to pi) go viral. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXa…

Another interesting thing would be to let the plea-bargain cases go to trial, with a moot outcome and see how many come up not guilty. Unfortunately, it would be very difficult to …