Point of order, the Uncanny Valley occurs when an object is created to pass as human and fails. If an object is never intended to pass as human it never approaches the valley.

But it’s also a strange game, and the more I’ve played it, the more apparent that strangeness has become. Here as with many other war video games, the gamification of mankind’s greatest, costliest struggles grates against me every time I play. I think of my grandfather and the toll this war took on him...

In almost every field effort is being multiplied via technology, allowing a single worker to be orders of magnitude more productive, yet worker compensation remains the same, while executive compensation rises. I can’t imagine this trend will continue forever.

And perpetuate the cycle.

This is a business not high-art, people aren’t tools for you to overuse and abuse to achieve your creative bullshit.

Without context hours worked and effort expended are useless metrics.

When you learn the importance of free expression from a comic this is the sad result.

Remember this gem? 

Those eggs are so good...that’s the only way I make them any more.

Whatever they’re describing isn’t water burning. Possibly the impurities in water burning, or maybe they’re referring to a pot boiling over and hitting the burners, but the water isn’t burning.

That statue of a giant robot isn’t really about a giant robot.

Have you heard of the saying “The finger isn’t the moon?”

In this scene it’s logical for Abby and Sean to defend the IT infrastructure of NCIS. It’s also a horribly written scene.

Who?

Either the author is dead or not, please make up your mind.

The average dipped down to around 10 but doesn’t stay. Regardless, the price over time remaining so static is quite remarkable.

Sweet spot refers to the price per brick, which was mentioned multiple times in my post, and not personal budget.

How embarrassing to get the math all wrong. Thanks for everyone’s corrections and gentle treatment. :D

Just a quick FYI on their prices.  Lego set prices per brick have been insanely steady for decades, hovering just around 12 cents per brick. 2321/180 gives us a price of 12.89 cents per brick, right in the sweet spot.

Say I write a program for customer A that performs a function(F). Customer B hires me to write a similar function(f). Even if I begin completely from scratch and diligently work towards not re-creating identical code (F) and (f) are going to appear similar in both form and results. That’s why both Osteichthyes and…