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This made me put "sign up on gun.io" on my to-do list. Very cool talk, very sympathetic guy (+1 for rapid fire info,+10 for making a stand for hacker aesthetics and fun in hacking)…

> Gov't is already so cheap that we (US) have fluoride in our water, that was planned to be cheap dental care =(. To understand you correctly, do you think the fluoride is a bad th…

People think taxes are evil but for dome reason will accept warlords?

> This concept implies that it's possible to discover all possible scope before starting a project, which is almost always not the case on any project of relevant scale. This is wa…

We need to unify this with actually hitting deadlines/making it economically viable, at least until basic income is a working model. Maybe tie it so that every stage has a payout (…

> Flagging this story as the top comment is political. Please discuss the technicalities of this, not the ethics and politics. This is exactly why I find the idea of enforcing non …

Damn good read

> ... which is, of course, silly. And the author should know that. This is not sufficient to explain to people why there are no rich conspirators hiding wealth. Mind you, I mostly …

You can use the Barcode to tie things together... smart pantries and stock monitoring depends on standardised(ideally free) access to identifiers for the goods

This sentiment is so bizarre from a European perspective. So the only thing that stops people from getting an education willy nilly is student debt? Or American engineers are all b…

I very much feel by this study... I grew up with television, books, audio stories=>constant stimulation. I brought books to class to read when it got boring...some teachers let me …

> It is not unthinkable that the NSA has faked the moon landing and pictures of earth with photoshop / film equipment. You havent been above earth, so how do you know? I think you …

So how do you ensure that sciencists stay careful and try to be objective, how do you have any objectivity in allocation of funds etc. without some metric? I hate the publish or pe…

It's not only a question of getting enough power IN but also of getting the "consumed" power(waste heat) OUT

> As I pointed out above, the status quo is actually pretty good. For you. And me. But we are not the majority. The majority does not benefit from automation, globalisation etc. as…

Because it probably won't happen. Just like the idea that "charity will step in", history gives us evidence against it

> Pros and Cons to universal income Some criticism: > Pros > - homelessness becomes purely choice. Poverty is less of a motive for crime Unless health insurance is included and we …

> Socialism and Communism has always been led by intellectuals. Marx was hardly a member of the proletariat for example. It was led, but one of the official foci was "Arbeiter bild…

Don't know how much that applies here, but there is no inherent moral or egalitarian negative to a "harem" (or "unicorn" arrangements if I remember my polyamory lingo correctly) if…

Interesting points, thank you. EEVblog agrees with some of them and did the numbers on others, I might link it if I remember(it's bed time here soon) One thing where I don't agree:…

I hope it came through in my comment that I dislike the denial of government aid in the creation of a "bootstraps" narrative when people want to argue against taxes, not the making…

I'm sure i'm not the only one who feels like this is possibly the iphone moment of Solarcity/Tesla: an old-ish idea, made sexy and tasty to consumers, together with technology reac…

We could make a new word for people who manage each other mutually, co existeling in their operations without blind hierarchy...we could call it mumanagement

"Why the West rules for now" has an interesting take on this

How do you make capital?