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Here's a possible implementation of your idea that could help get the ball rolling. 1. Get a group of wealthy investors to select a well-known director and film that they would lik…

If you intend to make money from your novel, it's your responsibility to find a way to capitalize on it. Obvious approaches include collecting funding/reservations in advance or as…

You seem to be making the inaccurate assumption that both the law and its enforcement are logically consistent. This might seem reasonable if you are a mathematician or engineer wh…

Exactly! Why would anyone want to live forever in a human body, when they could just build themselves a kick-ass robot body instead.

Software really is sort of a special case though. Most of the problems you mentioned are at least partially caused by the constraints and resources of our physical environment. How…

Yes, and that's how it should be. Mathematics, including algorithms, is not patentable.

I would say you're probably right about work experience being much more relevant. However, if you went to a very prestigious school, you might want to put it at the beginning for t…

if ... 1000 dollar fine else if ... 5 months jail else if ... capital punishment else if ... licence suspended else if ... 3 years jail, 20000 dollar fine // handle a few million m…

There's a man in the clouds jiggling us around with puppet strings, obviously. And the man in the clouds, well, I guess he's controlled by a mystic turtle in outer space...

Well, the hip ones, at least.

Sam is such a great guy. I'm sure he donates all of his earnings to charity and doesn't own a single luxury, so he's definitely qualified to judge how "yuppies" spend their money. …

Marketers do nothing to "make the product better". They pump exorbitant amounts of money into advertising, thereby increasing the final price paid by customers without increasing p…

Are you allowed to break into other people's property and use weapons to enforce your own system of rules on them? Nope. Are you allowed to lock people in a cage for decades becaus…

Animals have very strict rules and regulations about the sacred act of rubbing genitals together.

Wait, did you just say that seriously? Plaintiff: "There was a dead-body in the toilet, but the defendant has been regularly flushing, thereby destroying the evidence and proving h…

Eropple: As is likely apparent, I am of the opinion that the thief should be forced to make good on her damages. They are not illusory damages; _someone_ will be made less than who…

The light bulb was invented? How do you know Edison didn't just dig the first one out of the ground and tell everyone he invented it? Before Edison discovered the first light bulb,…

Well, it's not just a difference in optimization goals; it's a difference in methodology. Evolution optimizes by using heuristics and stochastic search--piling crap on top of crap,…

Engineering beats evolution, every time.

I wouldn't be surprised if facebook just "borrows" the idea and implements it on their own. They would have a significant advantage due to the lack of API restrictions.

Or more generally, everything is mathematics.

Notation is a solved problem. Math got it wrong, Lisp got it right.