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Its quite funny how the smartphone revolution will finally make VR devices viable.

Ubuntu seems horribly bloated, and the installation takes forever. Try Knoppix livecd, they have a pretty quick program to flash the installation to an external usb. Plus you can g…

Well there are similar tablets, I think the one below was around $250: http://tabletrepublic.com/forum/android-tablet-reviews/voyo-... You would have to find a case + keyboard thou…

What are the chances Putin didn't write the article?

>Lisp is a language that was ahead of its time, but there are language features now that seem beyond Lisp's grasp. Interested to hear your views, can you provide some examples?

I agree with you that governments can be very suboptimal, but that doesn't diminish the existence or usefulness research as a public good. Some research can not be readily commerci…

I don't think the provision of public goods are a moral choice, if anything it is an economic choice, where its subsidy is justified by two things: the benefit of the public good o…

See definition of public good(economics): In economics, a public good is a good that is both non-excludable and non-rivalrous in that individuals cannot be effectively excluded fro…

>why would you give in to your "competition" and make games for their "console" Because these general purpose "consoles" have grown tremendously in power while decreasing in cost, …

>In what way is homeschooling to suit a parent's utter stupidity not a prison? Have you considered the case where the parent is not 'stupid'?

>Are Ikea desks that can be made at 1/5th the cost but last 1/10th as long representative of the forefront of technology? I refuted the example of technological progress being use …

The phrase "re-inventing the wheel" comes to mind, the definition of progress is moving forward from the current, not artificially handicapping oneself the past and then working ba…

Pneumatic power tools are nothing new: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tool "Air tools were formerly unpopular in the DIY market, but are becoming increasingly popular, and …

But they are not contributing to technological progress.

try alibaba.com

If you want value go for something more recently released, like the Lenovo A820: http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/814529232/2013_Newest_andr...

Its pretty silly how it doesn't boot if the fan fails, I turn the fan off because its making weird noises, but the laptop still runs fine, although I try to keep the temperature be…

There is already a myriad of mini keyboards on ebay, although I haven't used any but some of them look sufficiently good to use along side a smartphone. In the future I think they …

There is a popular TED talk on motivation, he postulates that growth is one contributing component of motivation. This may be his anecdote, but this guy has helped many people get …

You're example is where a newbie gets matched with 9 other experienced players, this scenario is no fun in ANY 5v5 team game. Now imagine the scenario where the newbie gets to play…

This is really interesting, the case of the girl you described certainly isn't new phenomenon. I lived with my parents in China up until 1993, and back then this was also a common …

I hear that Russia still has the best mathematicians. Culturally Russia was at the forefront of music/opera - just see the famous violinist of the 20th centuary. I read though in N…

I think a big reason is ease of integration/life - many Chinese people find life to be easier when they immigrate to the West. Life can be very very competitive in China - relation…

I don't understand the last sentence - honesty to self seems to be more an individual virtue as opposed to a cultural virtue.

I don't think this is a problem isolated in China, I grew up in the Australian education system, went to a top 3 public high school, and the situation(at least for math/science) is…