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Wasn't that going to rest on the tired old "10% of your brain" trope? Pulling that one out would have bothered me a great deal more than the battery analogy.

Strictly speaking, Morpheus held up a battery at the end of his little talk. Humans make no sense as an energy source, obviously, but fat has a reasonably solid energy density for its volatility.

My personal headcanon is that the machines were laboring under something akin to Asimov's three laws, which required that they preserve humanity. The Matrix, then is a loophole, something which technically satisfies the requirements of their core programming, but in a way that is advantageous to the machines.

But then, once you've got all those people hooked up, you might as well make some use out of them. They aren't the most efficient battery around, but if you've got to keep them anyway, they might as well serve as a load balancer. The people of Zion just came later and mistook an ancillary benefit for the machine's primary purpose.

>where I instantly ALT-F4'd Google Chrome and added 'medium.com' to a permanent blacklist

Medium.com is essentially just a blog host, isn't it? Seems a bit harsh for one story you didn't like.

4 year election cycles, so 10 years from now would be just after midterm elections.

For Python, at least, the most popular numeric computation library (NumPy) uses a fair bit of Fortran under the hood. I'm not certain whether the matrix operations do, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me.

While those books are fairly good, they seem like a poor recommendation for someone sick of nihilistic sci-fi.

>Animals have the same rights as humans. Indeed, we are animals

By that reasoning, oughtn't we grant the same rights to a sea sponge?

It's not clear to me that animals, as a general class, deserve any particular care or rights beyond what we might extend to living creatures in general. So far as we grants rights to animals, the clear criteria seems to be complexity (especially of the intellectual sort) and closeness to humanity.

They didn't raise crops, but still practiced a considerable amount of agriculture based around grazing herds.

Speaking of Sanderson, the podcast he cohosts - Writing Excuses - is well worth a listen.

http://writingexcuses.com/

Anecdotally, I've heard from a number of people that catering is one of the larger profit centers for restaurants that do it, with the dine-in service acting almost like a marketing tool, or sometimes even a loss leader.

I'm not sure the number is constant. I think it scales with either the age or the prominence of the comment. I've seen threads where I was unable to downvote top tier comments, even though I could downvote their children.

Do you have any evidence for that? Many MMA proponents claim that the long term effects should be less severe than boxing, because their fights generally involve less repeated head trauma.

I don't know enough about the issue to argue one way or another, but I find it a plausible argument.

This seems like a good use case of their community wiki feature. List the major ones, and suggest the rationale and tradeoffs for the different major choices.

It has a separate etymology, but pronunciation seems to have been altered by the fruit/color into its modern form. The color was adopted later on after the two terms merged.

Command and Conquer, followed by Starcraft here.

Also, one of the early GTAs had networked multiplayer, and I remember doing a fair bit of that when I was younger.

Your way has its own set of pitfalls, and I'm not sure that they're less than the alternative. If you do business in New York, Chicago, and Boston, then you have to worry about laws in all three places. The more you lean upon local lawmaking, then the more you risk adding a big layer of legal incompatibility once you start crossing borders.

> You want a person at the kiosk so that they can gently guide the SUV driving suburban wife with the high maintenance order gently out of the way of the rest of the customers.

Even if that's the case, you could still plausibly turn three to four people manning a register into four kiosks and one person to assist.

On my current monitor, that search doesn't show even a single result without scrolling.

Wikipedia has it listed at about 10ish kT, with higher end estimates up around 40ish. By comparison, the Trinity test during the Second World War was roughly 20 KT.

Were they actually able to produce a 9MT weapon, it would be more than half as strong as the largest weapons test the US ever conducted.

What does this mean for Taxi drivers in California? My understanding was that they also frequently operated as contractors.

The last (and so far only) time I was called for jury duty, the judge's instructions were very explicit that the word of a police officer was to be given no special weight compared to other witnesses.

Jurors were questioned about this during the voir dire, and several people were dismissed because of an admitted bias in favor of police testimony.

Obviously, this is a sample size of one and no generalizations can be drawn, but it does stand as a counterexample.

And for at least some these, it's definitely come post-success.

Twitch.com redirects to twitch.tv, but was a music site as late as the end of 2014.

thefacebook.com also comes to mind.

I have no idea about the Sims, but I've run Spore under Wine without noticable issue.

It also doesn't explain why the effects of sleep are so strong, when an instinct for watchful stillness would have been every bit as effective for that purpose.

"When I'm developing software... I don't talk. I might do an odd grumble to myself every once in a while, but the loudest thing in the room, by far, is my keyboard"

That's often true of games too, though, and Twitch has plenty of popular streamers. I think their greater issue is that the steroetypical twitch viewer in their young teens is unlikely to be interested, and older people who might be interested are more likely to be time strapped. Though as I dig around looking for twitch demographics, it looks like the college aged 18-24 is Twitch's biggest group, so there might be a decent overlap.

I wonder if it might be a good idea for them to push the event angle more, with a special focus around on-campus things like hackathons or contests. If you had screen forwarding set up between multiple projects/competitors, it might be interesting to have a "caster" that helped walk viewers through what the different groups were doing.

Goes hand in hand with the old adage "comment why, not what".

Alternately, watch SMBC's more explicit version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCOapq3uYY

Regardless of what you feel about the original upload, the article does in fact claim that she is barred from criticism:

"Pawluck is also prohibited from posting anything about police or anyone associated with the judicial system."

>Could've been a nice article. But it said "fish" and "sharks" far too often

Why's that?