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My kneejerk, not thought through notion: why not require an emergency override protocol be builtin to road using robots? No thoughts on how this would work exactly, but it would le…

Well, I have a bear call spread on NVDA and so far its not working super great. It all depends on timing and I seem to be pretty crappy at options. o well.

But no I can not identify the flavor

like it, the zero version, vs the new coke zero which was a downgrade

_The Mind Illuminated_ Hasn't changed my life yet but it might (found it three days ago out on hoopla.com). I say this as someone who has given meditation practice a good college t…

I am a retired programmer (now software hobbyist) and I am interested in them. :-)

I want to put a smart light bulb in my desk lamp and use it (change the color) as a phone ringer or text message alert. This seems at a glance like it should be easy. What I am fin…

- Revisionist History - Against the Rules - James Altucher Show - Into the Zone - Reply All - The History of Philosophy Without The Gaps - In Our Time - RadioLab - Conversations wi…

"Money" (aka fiat currency) is not absolutely money. No money is money without trust. Do I trust my US greenbacks? Mostly, but in the future that will depend on prevailing inflatio…

initial reaction (site unseen): This has to be a grift. Upon glancing at the site, they put at least a little effort into it. That logo is genius. It straddles between being utterl…

Powerful people get rewarded: monetarily, in kind, through social status in every single political system that ever existed. Water is wet. Why is this an important article again?

Perl? COBOL?

I have a web app hosted on google appengine. I built it for folks who suffer from chronic disease (including myself). Anyway the app has grown to about 1100 users who visit every d…

I would add, for you silicon valley/SF residents, that longnow.org puts on monthly lectures ( http://longnow.org/seminars/ ), some of which are very interesting. E.g. the next spea…

Hmm, yes, I am pretty amateur at presenting so I may have gone a little too quickly. I was trying to be brief because I respect my viewer's time but the app has a broad-ish scope. …