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The last time I read the legislation (sorry, didn't have the time now), it still requires a licensed driver to be at the wheel and at the ready to take over. I presume this sort of intermediate step will help the developers gradually transition to these type of exceptional real-world scenarios.

I've often thought the same thing. It has me thinking cautiously about the sociological implication rapidly expending 'senior' demographic, growing life expectancy, and the rapid pace of world changing technologies. Is there a point where senior citizens can't keep up cognitively, despite the medical advances that may keep their bodies younger? And further, is there a point where their dominance as a percentage of society means we need to slow our adoption rate of consumer technologies to account for neurological barrier?

I also think about the people who want their brains crygenetically frozen after they die. Assuming they die old, with this cognitive scaffolding adapted to life today, I can only imagine the impact of 'waking up' into a world 100-300 years in the future, with such a drastically different world. That sounds psychologically crippling to me.

And finally, are there techniques I can take advantage of now, when I'm [comparatively] young, to keep my brain receptitve to new ideas, mental models, and raw sensory input? Meditation? Arts? Travel? Literature? All of the above, and if so, where do I find time for it all, while advancing my career?

That said, the blog post was well after the trigger point where the donations and their associated rewards are locked.

'cept, now that we get down to it, your experience was not "I have one"

Stealing this quote:

"As with all things, the first 90% took the first 90% of the time, and then the second 90% took the second 90% of the time."

I'd like to note, their assumptions on caps lock does not apply to Mac. If you hold shift while caps lock on a mac, it still gives uppercase.

Of course, if they implemented this, it would turn it into a case insensitive password with much bigger security implications. So, this isn't a criticism of their decision. Only an observation.

After reading both articles, it seems to me much of the race for faster trading speed is fueled by the first come, first serve order matching. However, I don't see how this is actually important to either price discovery or liquidity. In other words, this artificial restriction does not actually contribute to greater good of the stock market.

I presume it was designed to ensure fairness, but is it any more 'fair' than random selection (true random, from a physical source that cannot be influenced) from all available matching bids.

Would anyone care to present an argument on how FIFO matching, after best price, is beneficial in the broader sense?

I repeated the same experiment with different results. Searching "World Trade Center" in either personal or general results show no thumbnail links to the image search. There was one thumbnail linking to the news search, but it was a memorial picture. Searching "Oklahoma City" did list the image search thumbnails. The thumbnails were followed after six entries, if you include the Google Maps link. Only one of the four was related to the bombing, and that one picture was a distance shot of the build, not of human remains.

Blatant self-promotion: Here's my similar anim using Canvas. Since my animation uses not just characters, but color, I chose canvas over monospace text. In retrospect, its performance isn't where I would like it, but it does run on mobile. Admittedly, this one isn't a fluid sim (nor meant to be) or interactive (yet). http://www.andrew-n-marshall.com/

Random note on the site theme: This detail looks horrible, adding unnecessary high frequency contrast when selected: body { text-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px; }

This is a side effect of it being a reflection API, and true of the current APIs as well: clazz.getMethod( "toString" ).invoke();

also, very mobile unfriendly

I agree with zachrose, but that doesn't mean there isn't a market for power users who will appreciate this work.

My concern is that the primary multi-touch gestures choosen are two handed. Unlike pinch, stretch, and swipe, holding onw finger in place while you begin another gesture require more coordination than most people can do with one hand. In my mind, this leaves it out of the realm of phone-sized devices on the go. It probably works great when working on a table or desk, which means it is really the mouse for a tablet environment. In that market, you may have a real winner.

The author directly compared the radiation cloud of Cherynobl over Europe with the size of the US, not to give the Cherynobl accident a sense of scale, but following the discussion of the CA reactors to imply the same could happen.

Green FUD

There is a wholy unsupported assumption that a US reactor of completely different design would failure in a manner comparable to Cherynobl.

Regarding Java field modifier, its too bad the default is none of public/private/protected.

In all other aspects, thumbs up to the post.

Not only are the 706 planets only potential candidates, but I believe they include all possible planets, not just the "earthlike" planets. The article is poorly written in that manner, and the headline here is magnifying the error.

That said, 306 of the 706 have already been confirm. No stats on the number or percentage of false positives in that first batch.

Misleading headline, since the "Vegas Casino" part is just speculative fiction. Nonetheless, the backing research is an interesting case of neurology.