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> some futuristic chip implant in your head to prevent you from committing it Just curious, are you thinking of The Alliance ?

> Never blame on malice what can be blamed on incompetence. So, does the early bird get the worm or do good things come to those who wait? We're maybe too inclined to just assert t…

Would every drawing have to loop? Pi doesn't. I personally don't actually know if there's something about this specifically that would force every drawing to loop, though.

Or you could consider both.

Even if you can't measure someone's creative thinking ability very well, that doesn't mean that it can't improve with practice.

I think strait is right. "Elite achiever" only (directly, anyway) has to do with performance, not intelligence.

I was hoping that the neutrinos were actually going faster than light. Confirming established theories is boring, but breaking them is exciting.

Do you know any specifics of how the standard model breaks down at high enough energies?

This (probably) won't discuss the technical problem, but http://www.bitcoinity.org/markets will let you track Bitcoin prices.

Bitcoin seems to be picking up again. From Mt. Gox: > Last price:$45.00000 > High:$48.46900 > Low:$36.65000 Edit: It could go back down a lot. We'll see what happens.

I'm no expert on bitcoin, but I've read that you can have as many addresses as you want. You could generate a new address for each time you order through bitspend and never give th…

Can't be. Has to say "0" sometimes.

This is just speculation. California has this: > California’s Master Plan for higher education, adopted in > 1960, guarantees a place in college for every state > resident who can …

> I thought it was basic enough to be studied at about that age in the rest of the world. Where do you think GP went to school? Neither the post nor the profile indicates a locatio…

Does anyone here know why the Einstein cross has 4 of the repeated image instead of being a continuous repetition around the lens object? It seems to me like you should see the mag…

Or to not give an individual power in the first place.

Actually, if you're curious, there's matter that isn't made of atoms, such as neutrinos.

> Human beings are irrational and sometimes do things that > aren't in their economic best interest out of principle > or ethics. Humans might be irrational sometimes, but this isn…

I use Ruby some, but I'm not sure I'd describe it as clean exactly. I've used Python a bit recently and was struck by just how clean it seemed. (I'm not sure Python has anything th…

How about Sugar? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_%28desktop_environment%29 )

It's like Facebook.

(I'm an American.) I'd be interested to hear what dangers Americans seem to be oblivious of.

I don't know if we've gotten there yet, but Fizz Buzz specifically may not always be an effective weeding-out tool: once enough people have heard of it, they may prepare specifical…