Silicon Valley (the tv show) isn’t really a satire, if anything it has not gone far enough. Silicon Valley (the place, more or less) has definitely gone too far.

ummmm... I don’t think anything was particularly “hidden” with HP Lovecraft. He was pretty overt about it, its just that it doesn’t jump out to people today. perhaps because it is so extreme that people today just see it as part of the horror aspect.

I sure hope he’s trolling...

Ummm... What book are you talking about? Or are you just attempting to troll? The end of the book has Neville imprisoned, about to die, and realizing that to the infected he is the monster that visits while they sleep (and thus the line "I am legend").

Sorry, not even close...

Um, No. Press the button, there's a delay until the shutter "opens" (or with a camera phone, until the camera starts collecting data off the sensor), this is called shutter lag. For a good camera phone let's say 50 milliseconds (its slower if the flash has to charge). The shutter opens for some period of time (let's…

I gotta agree with JavelinRobin. If this is "brilliant" it sets a pretty low bar for "brilliance" (as well as "bonkers"). But then again, I guess that's what click-baiting is all about...

Really? I hate this stuff that tries to over explain, talks around, tries to make things "accessible" and so on. THIS is the stuff I can't understand, give me the actual science...

Braveheart... in Space! I know the movie is terribly inaccurate and has all sorts of other problems, but the depiction of tactics in the various battles (whether accurate or not) was compelling and drew you in. If they could duplicate that effect for space battles, well then I am in.

Casablanca in space has already been done, Babylon 5

In The Quantum Thief the scarce resource for the Oubliette is the amount of time before citizens go "silent", that is become laborers (with a reduced mentality) protecting the city, farming and so on. After some time in silence, they earn more time on top, in the city. The citizens in the Oubliette are theoretically…

14/15 Atheist (always such, did not "convert" from some religion), missed "Nirvanah" and did know better...

Big G vs Cthulhu

I was hoping the MUTO looked like that.

Lot's of dogs do that, whether its on the forbidden bed or on the carpet. They are... gratifying themselves. They are getting happy, but I don't think its joy in the sense that the poster means (nor is it all that complex).

I had a dog who could do this. I would look for him and for minutes at a time he would dance around so that no matter which way he looked I couldn't see him. (He was also a stealthy dog that moved very quietly)

aaaaand that was *every* special effects shot in the movie...

um: "Moore's law is the observation that over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years" [quoted from Wikipedia]. WTF is the deal with people not even getting well known terms right? This kind of misrepresentation appears to be getting…

I realize that there are several different definitions for the singularity out there, but with each new statement of it that I see it seems that people are getting stupider and stupider. So far as I know the original definition was that it was the point where the rate of technological change reached asymptote, on an…