No, no. They aren't worried about malicious code somehow making its way on to the reader then having the reader load that code on to the sub. The worry with being able to load new books on the reader is that the 'book' that gets loaded on to it is really classified documents. Then the reader with classified material…

Could have, buttmunch.

Hey Editors,

The solar collector would be in the shadow of the balloon. Or, it would need very long cables to dangle the collector from.

Not really, no. It is taking the sunlight that would have hit the earth and be absorbed by the atmosphere, and instead it gets absorbed by the microwave receiver. The energy budget would be mostly the same.

Also, this show is fucking amazing. As an adult, watching a kid's show, I was gobsmacked by how good it is.

lol wut? Be careful, troll any harder and you'll pull something.

Key difference is that implanted kung fu moves are invoked by the user/brain owner, a very different scenario from having an external intelligence take over one's brain. So static vs dynamic is not the best dichotomy to hang that on. Acknowledged. Doesn't erase the fundamental difference between the two types of…

You mean like this?

There was nothing in the article about life expectancy.

We really aren't talking about "a book reading itself to you". The downloading that they show isn't even equivalent to suddenly memorizing every page in a kung-fu book. They are downloading not only the knowledge, but the experience and muscle memory required to be a martial arts expert.

A) That's not how the brain works. There are no 'packages of data' everything is active.

You just compared single elements of single songs that were amazing to entire albums that were amazing.

If they can overwrite the brain with the knowledge of kung-fu and they can overwrite the cerebellum to have the experience of having already performed kung-fu, I don't see why a complete rewrite is all that hard to grasp.

Let's see, so what you are saying is you load up a news site. Then when you find a story you want to read, you open it up, wait for it to load, read it, then close it. Then repeat the whole process for each story you want to read.

If by "cities suck" you mean "are the most efficient way of living and distributing resources and have done more than practically anything in human history to raise standards of living" and when you say "Small towns are better. Smaller communities of people that share a fundamental belief, even better" you mean "small…

You can also throw in a dry towel or two. Cuts down on drying time immensely.

Stealth planes are black because it is a special paint that helps to absorb radar.

While I agree with you about the quality of the article, your ideas about overdoses are extremely wrong.

What about "This doesn't really apply to me because I know about it and constantly struggle to adjust for these biases".