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I, Toaster Follow-Up: Artist Thomas Thwaites Responds(reason.com)
1 points by splat 17y ago|0 comments
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by splat 17y ago
Link to the original article: http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
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The Two-Party Swindle(lesswrong.com)
77 points by splat 17y ago|71 comments
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How Many Balloons Would It Take to Lift a House?(slate.com)
2 points by splat 17y ago|1 comments
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by splat 17y ago
"This word "over-regulation" and these arguments about government intervention are all bogus. It is because the government backed off what many called "over-regulation" that we are in the very mess we are in!" This may be what some websit
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Will the US adopt a national sales tax?(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by splat 17y ago|2 comments
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by splat 17y ago
Interesting. However, the article overstated the potential range of the system. While a system like this would easily be valid within and nearby the solar system, it certainly wouldn't work at an arbitrary point in the galaxy. The beam o
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How Juxtapoz magazine sparked a lowbrow art revolution(reason.com)
1 points by splat 17y ago|0 comments
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by splat 17y ago
Though it's probably not a good first language, if she is going to be writing code for any astrophysical applications she will have to learn IDL at some point. It's a language that's rarely used in any other field, but in astrophysics it's
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by splat 17y ago
Perhaps it's cynical of me, but the real intent of a tax like this would be to fill the public purse. "Reducing spam" would just be a flimsy excuse to get the tax passed.
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North Korea Uncovered(nkeconwatch.com)
2 points by splat 17y ago|0 comments
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Environmental Conservation and Indigenous Peoples(guernicamag.com)
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The Underground Economy of San Antonio(sacurrent.com)
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Timeline of a Car Crash(drive.com.au)
47 points by splat 17y ago|24 comments
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by splat 17y ago
Reminds me of the organ piece ASLSP by John Cage which began in 2001 and is scheduled to end in 2640.
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by splat 17y ago
One of the problems with present-day technology is that the capability of wiping out the human species is a possibility, even if vanishingly small. It's hard to refute the argument that "The value associated with the destruction of the hum
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by splat 17y ago
It's certainly not impossible for such a thing to happen, but it requires enough coincidences to make it unlikely. For a group of terrorists to make a nuclear weapon, they need the scientific background, materials, and engineering skill to
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by splat 17y ago
This article strikes me as far too alarmist. Sure, it would be terrible if some guy in his garage concocts Black Plague 2.0 and accidentally (or intentionally) spills it all over a large city. But the author doesn't seem to assess anywher