Ugh stop it Netflix... stop making things I'll enjoy and like... for a service that doesn't try to bleed me dry like cable companies. Think of the poor service providers.

I've read some of Rand's stuff, and she's basically advocating that we be emotionless wealth robots. Her biography reads like a minor cult leader, and I am not even a little bit kidding. She gave robber-barons a way to feel justified ruining our economy for personal benefit. If there were a single person to blame for…

Yeah, but he willingly killed other SHIELD agents. Killed Hand. Killed Patton Oswald. He's a Nazi that is too stupid to know he is one, nor does he have the agency to think for himself.

Productivity (as you note) is measured, basically, in $/hr of worker output, so yes, a handmade loaf which takes twice as long to make but costs exactly twice as much is just as productive as the cheaper one. The problem is that handmade goods, by definition, don't benefit from capital investment the same way…

If Moon Hoaxers are gonna start commenting here. You can GTFO!

Thanks for posting this Mika! Fun read!

Do you know why scientists keep working on the same groups of organisms? It's because those are model systems that we have spent a hundred years building tools to work in effectively. The very first non-human genomes we sequenced were those of model systems: mice, fruit flies, Arabidopsis, etc. The amount of research…

Tablet screens are usually good, but every now and again you want to put what you're looking at on the big screen instead of staring at them on your tablet. Plus, since it works with iOS and Android devices and supports everything from Netflix and Hulu to your web browser and music player and virtually everything in…

Ugh. Pixels are to indie game programmers as PBR is to hipsters.

Until there's a restriction on the website that says "Hey, only comment if you want to give this game a hand job and call it Christmas!" then I've got the right to critique the games choice of graphics and that I won't buy a game I might otherwise have liked because of it.

This times a million once you have kids. I am in a constant state of despair at the state of my house, I clean it 3-4x a day and it still looks awful (to me). But I go to my friends' houses with kids and I have never once noticed and/or thought 'hmm, could do with a bit of tidying in here...'. They talk about what a…

If there's "so much story to tell" with Spider-Man, maybe stop rebooting it and telling us the same story over and over?

Enter a Morgan Freeman voiceover: "It is estimated that most human beings only use 10% of their brain's capacity… imagine if we could use all of it. Things would get interesting."

Make sure you know where your pallets come from! Food places are usually good, obviously avoid chemical places. Make sure it says HT on it and it comes from a place like Can or USA.

Earlier in this comment thread you lament that io9 doesn't have a downvote button. I agree with your lament, and have to advise that the only way to deal with trolls on this site is to ignore them. You can dismiss their comments if they respond to you, but otherwise their bad comments are off-limits to your moderation.

Indeed. I installed it yesterday, uploaded the installer here.

Edit: Crud - you mean the Mega download link on their site is borked. Could be a traffic issue, or maybe they pulled it because of the attention they're getting. Still, the Github repo should do the trick, lemme see what else is going on. :)

Newsflash, your pet is neither your roommate nor your child.

The way I interpreted the map was that Atlanta proper would be a deployment site, alongside some of the surrounding smaller cities. I hope as many places as possible get this service!

Sprinkled around Atlanta... but, still crossing my fingers!

The inspiration