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Given that the Voyager probes are pushing the absolute edge of humanity's reach into the cosmos, I'd love to see NASA publish the hardware specs and open up a competition to find t…

Definitely going to check this out!

The day this happened was the day I stopped contributing to Quora. I did not delete all my contributions, but almost did.

Hang on a moment, there's something about this use case that I don't really get. Is it ever possible to send a murderer to the right address? I mean, shouldn't we be throwing a Use…

I like to use the MDN re-introduction to JavaScript as a starting point: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/A_re-int...

I learned about Google a decade ago when "worse than satan himself" brought up either Bill Gates or Microsoft. I worked at Microsoft at the time. Everyone I knew thought it was hil…

I'm not sure I agree completely with either of you. Instead, I prefer to not attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity. Or too many people deploying features willy-ni…

The parabolic sinks that started popping up all over Seattle around a decade ago are great. If I owned my own place, I'd rip out all the existing sinks and put in parabolic sinks.

I think it is easy to see the Sprawl books as being technology-oriented with cyberpunk window dressing. If that is your perspective going in to Blue Ant , then I can see how you mi…

No, I got the point. And Osama was quite effective at terrorism. Though I think most of the credit goes to the US government and media. I don't believe it was an inside job, rather…

Walter Jon Williams' The Green Leopard Plague , which is also part of an anthology of the same name. The anthology includes several other stories that build up the world that GLP t…

Using war to cure terror is like using cyanide to cure a headache. Osama bin Laden would have killed more Americans by investing in Ford and GM+. And after the bailout, he would ha…

Looks great. Light UI, responsive, low prices.

and also vi > emacs But seriously. Comments are useful. Don't over use them, don't under use them. If you are being dogmatic about your comments, you are probably doing it wrong. A…

Any of a number of different wireless transmitters plugged into fiber. There are laser transceivers for use in open air, but they don't work particularly well in rain or fog. So no…

I'd like to meet someone who thinks you are an extremist zealot. Wait, no I don't. I really don't.

(psst: might want to have your sarcasm detector recalibrated, it appears to be giving erroneous readings)

If you haven't committed a crime how could you possibly need privacy, comrade?

> Sure, though the same can be said for drug cartels too. Perhaps. Nils Gilman argues that increasing the risk of a transaction increases the reward, and backs it up with drug-war …

Bounties might reasonably be paid for help closing a deal, but only a fool pays for an introduction. Not that there is anything wrong with separating rich fools from their money.

Offering a cash bounty like that seems to demonstrate a profound lack of understanding of how to go about pitching your idea.

So, what if BMW kicked the BMWCCA a few bills to make a "parody" video of their own?

Devil's advocate: where do you draw the line? MIT did a Gangnam style video, did they pay Psy for the right to do so? If BMW were to do a Gangnam style video, surely Psy would expe…

Can't tell which is a bigger time sink - the emerging IP debate here, or the hours I lost playing the original C&C back in the '90s.