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slocklin
16y ago
This is a non-moving "field." It is nothing but a marketing word for third rate research on things which used to be called "tribology" and "chemistry."
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slocklin
16y ago
"Of course Drexler didn't have the physics to figure out what a real nanobot might look like, nobody did, and nobody does." Well then I fail to see how anyone can justify calling this a technology then, when there ain't even any physics to
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slocklin
17y ago
Gates wrote BASIC at 20 and founded Microsoft in the same year. I thought everyone knew that. I gladly accede to "mean and venal." However, I also make stuff people use, so I feel perfectly entitled to piss all over ... for example ... yet
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slocklin
17y ago
I'm sorry, dude: it is not at all easy to meet people as inventive as Farnsworth. Television... compared to making another kind of MEMS accelerometer? And what do these modern inventors do for an encore that compares to inventing what is st
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slocklin
17y ago
Bill Gates is only there because he's standing next to a bunch of hooters models who are obviously there for Warren's ineffable awesomeness. Warren is the most famous fundamentals trader there is, therefore he belongs in the picture, even i