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> Do you sincerely believe it? Do I believe in myself? Yes. I'm a genius (by I.Q. score) and work hard every day. That's why I own a software company and have a beautiful family, m…

Yeah, I understand that the trampoline analogy is inadequate but I believe that we don't consider empty regions of space to have any type of "opposite" curvature or to exhibit nega…

Maybe a physicist can tell me why I'm wrong here: We often visualize the effect of mass on spacetime by using a trampoline and a bowling ball. The outer edges are flat and the clos…

I think it's generally agreed upon that the Space Shuttle program was needlessly wasteful and more PR- than science-driven. A heavy space plane has zero advantages over a capsule f…

> I prefer to teach 3D graphics without matrices because it's really not anything more complicated than a compact notation. From a programming perspective it's much less verbose. A…

"[T]he obvious solution is to compel Apple to let people shop for applications wherever they want, which would open the market and help lower prices" Is that a joke? I'd love to be…

What part of Thailand is that? I get around ~50M/s on my phone. I haven't checked my home cable in a while but I stream HD video (Netflix / YouTube) to several computers / TVs at o…

You mean variety . A varietal is a wine made from a single variety of grape and labeled as such.

I'm working on a project where I'm doing boolean ops on 3D meshes that need a lot of tests. I do a mixture of traditional unit tests w/asserts along with visual feedback. I have a …

Would this be a viable replacement for a support / community forum? I'm a DO customer but never have questions so I'm not sure what their support setup looks like.

"Deconstructed essence of cuisine"? I couldn't agree more. Food is one of the most accessible luxuries. The most expensive meals, with fine wine, cost less than most business class…

What's more bothersome: If you withdraw access (after they've already scanned your contacts) they'll disable the app. That's why I deleted the app and won't use it again. If a priv…

I think that's entirely too apologetic. The innovation was the original protocol. They were premature (as a lot of people warned) setting up anything as massive as the DAO, someone…

> Doing something about that number would no longer make us human. I really struggle with this. Apart from "evil" countries like China we do very little to try to steer the reprodu…

> Unfortunately, this kind of "optimizing for all cases" comes at the expense of how good the music can sound in any one environment. Sorry, but that's not the case. The reason mus…

Depressing to see this thread immediately devolve into dismissals from people who obviously didn't take the time to read the article. It's actually pretty interesting -- both becau…

God, hearing that team cheer when they make another first -- gives me chills every time.