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Well at least they might be able to do this if Connecticut were to secede from the United States. Not sure if you're from the U.S. or not, but we have a Bill of Rights which was or…

They haven't handled the transition to new media and values properly: 1. Their magazine: Almost all magazines have been replaced with websites. Their website dramatically undersell…

That's the thing that kills me - or almost did last month... [ 1 ] People are delirious about self-driving cars, but even the simplest automatable task of stopping when something i…

i agree. i just wanted to raise the imagery of being a prosecutor in jail. if they're hostile to child molesters, imagine what they do to prosecutors! yowza.

Hmm yeah your example makes me think of fast-food as an analogy. That is to say, there may be applications of sensing that benefit corporations financially, but don't help their us…

The prototypes I saw in person a few years ago were actually surplus automated potentiometers :) They were DC motors with gear reduction and a spool, with light steel wire coiled o…

That is one perverse set of constraints. Give me a few 1980s-vintage robot arms and I will outperform this system in any category except entertainment value. Robot arms once held g…

This picture shows what's under the table: http://tmg-trackr.media.mit.edu/publishedmedia/Projects/2013...

Wow, thanks for the downvotes, everyone! Maybe I'm simply in the wrong community? I thought some intelligent discussion would be welcome, but let's try this: Go driverless cars! Mi…

This is interesting to listen to, b/c Eno is well-known and has some interesting observations and ideas, but as far as his main idea, that art is play, he seems tragically unaware …

It's got nothing to do with deceit or skimming, it's power . There is no fraud, it would be simply taking advantage of people beyond the amount of value that I would be interesting…

I like the cut of your jib. I've been considering buying rental properties to supplement my income, but something deep inside somewhere, based on living close to people well below …

Ah you're right. Thanks. That was driving me crazy. I should have learned by reading substantive comments found elsewhere. This one below, for example, struck me as exceptionally s…

So what on Earth is objectionable in my comment? I speak from a moderate viewpoint, to take the study seriously, but not apply it blindly, apply my own small amount of experience, …

Fascinating results, I would only caution people before taking this article's results to apply to "all" women. IME, approximately 10% of women desire employment success way more th…

> remove sources of income that people find relevant in exchange for ads that some higher up in marketing thinks relates to its users. Yes, that's a move toward integrity and away …

Which problem spaces are you working in btw? I've been doing medical, microwave radio, infra-red LEDs, bike light LEDS, music instruments, architecture and some other small stuff.

yes. bsder's comment should only be taken to represent his own reality. As an embedded firmware developer for 18 years, I've seen every project has its own constraints, just like m…

> It seems intuitive that a violent individual would be attracted to violent games. The aggressive people I encounter outside the bars in my town seem to be sports fans and weightl…

from the link, emphasis mine: "In 2013, 230 academics and scientists signed an open letter stating their objection to the claims being made by the APA, calling them “misleading and…

Out of curiosity, why do you assume that because the author said 'he' that he projects that gender onto the author, as opposed to not actually knowing and choosing his own gender, …

Great list. How about teacher Julie Amero, whose browser was apparently hijacked, possibly while students used it while she was out of the room resulting in students seeing nudity …

> How difficult was it to not suspect it anymore? Excellent observation. It's really about people conditioned to follow scripts. These people were missing the "de-escalation script…

Yeah I hear ya. Basically, anything anyone says is a mere model. Saying we think in graphs is...great... in as far as it helps us to use graphs as a model for thought. And it may h…