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The amount of skill involved in this is mind boggling.

Go to the search box and type in "westford needles". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford

doesnt render properly in firefox.

There are no silver bullets. There is no substitute for clear thinking.

How about "there are no silver bullets, there is no substitute for clear thinking."

There will be fires.

Really slick. Kudos.

Our local B&N lost me when they eliminated the "New Releases" section of science fiction & fantasy novels.

it seems plausible or maybe even likely that everyone develops cancer many times, or at least the beginnings of it, but the immune system kills it over and over.

Until it doesn't.

Also as in "simulation codes". I associate it with physicists and Fortran programs, rightly or wrongly.

I've thought about this often enough you could almost call it an obsession.

Dammit! You beat me.

I believe there is reason for concern w.r.t. modifications of flu viruses, for one thing. That is, they know what makes flu easily transmissible among humans, and they know a bit about how to alter nontransmissible viruses to be more so. Given the belief that things like the 1918 flu are believed to be viruses that made this jump on their own, it's quite reasonable to worry that we could do it in a lab.

Counter argument to antinatalism. Benatar allows that once alive, death is horrible and to be avoided.

Failing to reproduce results in the death of all in the limit.

Therefore I propose that anti-natalism's ship has sailed once there is someone to think of it.

“Mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men...” Borges

I believe I still have a copy of that issue. Does anyone remember "M-Lisp" at all?

well... put it this way: no one has bothered to make it illegal

Ah, this appears to be a chrome problem -- it works fine in firefox.

I like it a lot, was looking for something like this to teach 13 with, so, thanks! Had trouble editing values in the tiles tho - backspace made the browser go back to HN and delete had no effect. This was in the most recent chrome on my ubuntu machine. Is there another way?

They're not shutting down, they're merging with a sister startup. AFAICT, this means: they won't be making any more PR2's. ROS is open source, seems like lots of grad students are using it. Probably it will continue to be developed and improved. Maybe it will become the "unix and C" of robotics.

Well, that could have gone better.

First, lets ignore the single most salient aspect (in a historical, biological and social sense) of sex, namely that it produces babies, and all that that implies. Then, pretend to be surprised that systems which have evolved to shape peoples behavior have had a lot to say about sex. Then lets notice that religions can grow by sexual reproduction of members.

Well done, sir. Well done, indeed.

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Answer the question as stated: it depends. Can he get back to the space station by tether or suit rockets?

(sorry)

Monopoly. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Also, there is a Kindle app for the iPad and I presume there is one for Android devices as well. Nook app too, FWIW.

Actually, they allow some people to downvote, I believe. Depends on yer karma.

This is worrisome:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7319

This is the most dangerous kind of fuzzy thinking. The twentieth century is littered with counterexamples.

See http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/2012/07/it-isnt-easy-to-und...