I earned that achievement twice.

Yeah, and once upgraded, the light in their chests will turn red instead of blue.

Three months after internet-connected household robots, someone will hack one and use it to kill the sleeping owner of the robot, because humans are stupid and even though it’s totally possible to create a robot that can only accept code signed with an asymmetric key kept secret by the developers, and is therefore…

I’m trying to like the show, but it sure seems like the director wants to avoid showing me anything awesome happening.

While that’s true, we are finding ways to make the propellant leave the rocket at higher speeds and with less turbulence, like the aerospike engine.

That wouldn’t change anything. I like people. I even like little immature people. And yes, I recognize that little immature people do all kinds of cruel, inconvenient, and foolish things.

Well, that’ll help to stop the spread of cracks, if it’s a laminate.

I wouldn’t go down this slide. Glass has a rather unusual failure mechanic, and it can happen without warning. All it takes is a sharp rivet on your jeans, or a scratch that doesn’t look even close to problematic, and BOOM, no more glass, and then lots of falling, and then a mess and a controversy and navel gazing…

Public servants have no expectation of privacy in the performance of their duties, and there is a public benefit to knowing which teachers have a rotten attitude towards those same duties, or which congressmen talk about working for “the people” when they actually work for industrial concerns that don’t give a crap…

Some day, perhaps people will realize that there’s this entire hacker culture dedicated to rooting out the assholes who are Ruining Everything, and making them suffer the normal and natural consequences for their actions by exposing them.

Gehry is proof that sycophants run the art world, even in architecture.

Don’t mean to harsh it bro

clinical death is when your heart stops beating and you stop walking and talking and breathing regularly. Biological death is much later, when your cells actually die, stop functioning, and the enzymes that used to be so useful now become a kind of solvent that starts dissolving its own container.

Genes are patterns, but they’re also a part of a mechanism. They’re as much mechanical as they are data storage, and neither the bump pattern of a key, or the punch pattern of a punchcard, or the bits of a file are truly and fully analogous to genetic patterns. But all of them are. If you imagine a thing which is very…

I’m thinking that perhaps your grasp of genetics, evolution, and biology isn’t great.

I found a small chondrite meteorite when I was a kid, and smashed it (it was only about an inch long). Its inside smelled distinctly like fireworks, cat piss, eggs, and that burned black foundry sand smell.

When you decrease the video quality of footage of your opponent, they look “worse” than the pristine video of your candidate. And people actually are that easy to manipulate.

It’s not a dubious claim. It is a food, high in antioxidants, and food is good for you until shown to be detrimental to your health, and even then most detrimental foods are only harmful in large quantities.

It seems that most of the time that someone is telling me how beholden the practice of medicine and pharmacology is to profit motives, they refer me to a charlatan who lives in a mansion after just sitting down and crapping out a book or a leaflet, and who happens to recommend the baruja berry or kolaboka nut IN THE…

You act like you don’t understand the difference between a general AI learning machine and a copy of Zork from 1983.