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Thanks for the warning by the way! Moved forwardagent to specific servers. I almost always log into trusted servers, but it's good to be preemptive ;-)

One interesting variant, is the case where the Host opens a door without knowing if that door had a goat. Expressing relief that he opened a goat door, he asks you to consider swit…

An attentive climber can see bolts from the ground at up to maybe 90-100 feet away. Mostly because of fortuitous sunlight reflections. The general idea is that at some point in the…

NASA actually had a rather successful program called "better, faster, cheaper" where we cut back on testing rigour in exchange for 1/2 - 1/3 mission cost http://www.nationaldefense…

Caltech also has a fantastic open sourced machine learning course[1]. In fact, students taking the class are instructed to watch these lectures, and class-time is used for answerin…

I work at NASA / JPL (but I'm not part of the MSL team, or any flight software team). We learn a good bit about good flight practices though. Here's what probably happened: Someone…

But categorically I would expect it to be a reasonable heuristic.

Nope, 1e9 = 1 * 10^9. He was fine.

But the analysis did not account for the variable number of weekend/weekday days on each day of the month. I don't know how meaningful this is, but it would be worth it to inspect …

Or wrap it in tin foil for a poor-man's farady cage. You could do slightly better with one of those passport RFID shields if that didn't cut it. Whenever they want you to present i…

but they spit out a bunch of other nasty stuff too. Plus: consider death tolls of each power source per KWh: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-human-toll-of-coa...

He may be pointing at organizations such as the TSA, which seem to have carte blanche nowadays.

I like knowing where I parked. Further, we have something called valley parking, in most places that I would want to get off for a while. You wouldn't need to know where you parked…

As someone with a bit more knowledge in the field, can you help inform me: I thought the consensus was that beta amyloid was a second order effect of Alzheimers. Didn't we (as in t…

Devil's advocate here: but the TSA has made it more difficult to attack planes, meaning that they stooped attacks that nobody will ever know about

First, mad props to you for taking control of your situation. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans can't (or won't) do that. If americans had control of their own medical …

That being said, there is value to posts like the above. If we want to avoid becoming Reddit, we must self moderate and make an effort to stabilize our culture.

Probably correct, I'm afraid to say :-(

Self driving cars well have to be specially equipped- it's not unreasonable to add LIDAR as the standard fare for these cars. After all, it's extremely well suited for the task

Last I checked, Google has a strong history of only using its patents defensively. I believe that's a good sign :-)

Closest we got, imho, was Obama speaking in support of gay rights. They made a pretty big deal of it in the petitions. As far as I know, laws? nada

That's my best guess. Worst part is, easy probably didn't even know it was dead

Why is the post by easy dead? It looks fine to me....

Also, publicity... Never discount publicity