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"Eventually - around 2000 - everyone understood this, and gave up hoping some subculture could somehow escape this dynamic." The whole article is really about music, and carries co…

I guess it takes some considerable imagination to create possibility ratings for impossible or unprecedented events. If something like a hypothetical transparent force field invoke…

Ugh. How awful. Apostrophes and (full stop) dots repurposed as letters within words. But at least there aren't any accented characters or other diacritics. Phonemes aside, why woul…

It is only because the difference between the rate of change in a static universe and the rate of change in an evolutionary one is that between zero and very nearly zero that the c…

The punnett square of social orientation towards peers is interesting, but a little stark. 1. warm & competant : admire 2. warm & incompetant : pity 3. cold & competant : envy 4. c…

Wow, that video is really cool! The sliding lock-tumbler mechanism offers a really interesting amount of control over the aperture shaping the beam! Sort of like a brush in photosh…

Well, an abstract description of processes like these always lends extra heft to what your brain will try to rationalize out of a written description. Especially with computational…

Such is the nature of these new school services like AirBNB and Über, no? Idealistic amateurs and artisans operating with optimistic expectations. Also, the use of the word "you" i…

> implying one can file a lawsuit against a pimp and/or any associated prostitutes, and that anyone would have access to their actual lawful identity

Probably because an analog signal will provide a continuous high-resolution sweep of values, without any aliasing. You can resolve continuous ranges of values with very high precis…

I seriously miss low-tech phones that are actually so low-tech and dumb that the only features they boast are the most practical necessities. The worst part about most phones of an…

His replies to some of the comments wink at the possibility that he thoroughly enjoys the rancor and consternation stirred in the minds of that particular subset of his readers. e.…

Yeah, sort of like those "32 in 1" and "112 tele-games" Atari cartridges, where each "game" was a permutation on the number of players, how the players were organized into "teams" …

The year of the Linux desktop was brought about by Android. Oh, right. Ubuntu had nothing to do with it. Definitely not back in April of 2008, with LTS 8.04. No way. It was Android…

> When I RTFA, I'm not totally sure what the author did that actually provided significant value, particularly in that final stretch. Yeah, and that's kind of the point. Human valu…

Not to mention the draw on electricity, which probably points back to some undisclosed amount of coal being burned in a power plant, somewhere nearby...

Honestly, it's not particularly difficult to copy programs from the app store. With a jailbroken phone, you can just grab an app off the phone's file system. I think the real diffe…

No. Not really. Not even slightly. I really don't enjoy the thought of being famous, and especially not the ephemeral famous-on-the-internet variety. I especially hate the end resu…