ClintEhrlich

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I haven't fully figured out the solution (if I had, I'd be writing it), but I suspect it will ultimately involve the widespread availability of smartphones and laptops with the capacity to record and transmit video. For the time b
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Am I the only one overwhelmed by the irony of a long-form New Yorker article about the art of omitting extraneous passages?
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1972's Солярис is a classic. It is far superior to the later American version directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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Morality as aesthetics writ large(reddit.com)
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"Exceptionalism" is not an American phenomenon. It just seems that way because America currently enjoys unipolar primacy, so it can put its ideology into action. Most powerful nations have intentionally promulgated some form of ex
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For those of you unfamiliar with the story, this New York Times piece describes how this all happened in the first instance. One more datum on federal incompetence: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/us/po
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It's ironic: In many ways, the simplest problems are the hardest for hackers to solve. We naturally understand programs and protocols that flummox average users, including PGP and Bitcoin. Donning the veil of techno-ignorance is an elu
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I'm reminded of when Facebook first eliminated the formatting constraints on status updates, so that users could simply enter text instead of adapting their message to the "___ is __ing" convention. At the time, I'm sure
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This article fails to explore the depth of the connection between Russia and space travel. Long before the October revolution, Russian scientists like Kibalchich and Tsiolkovsky were obsessed with using rocketry to explore the cosmos. They
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That last point is really fascinating: The employment status of Uber's drivers could have a significant effect on the speed at which autonomous vehicles are introduced in this country. Uber may accumulate a tremendous amount of cash, o
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I like Stanford, but as I read this article I couldn't shake the feeling that all of these gigantic academic dinosaurs are headed for extinction and simply don't realize it yet. The very force that has fueled Stanford's prest
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My perspective on performance-enhancing drugs has changed because of my involvement in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and mixed martial arts. When I was a teenager, I started training at a gym where several UFC fighters spoke openly with me about thei
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I found some of the almost mournful passages in this piece off-putting. As the author ultimately recognizes, the drift of robotics talent from publicly funded universities to private enterprises is an indication that the technology has adva
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The more prestigious the field, the less reliable the experts(verism.info)
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The very fact that medallions were being sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars demonstrates that taxi were, in fact, a monopoly taking advantage of the populous. Regulated monopolies are often even worse than unregulated ones, because t