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I'm not an objectivist, I just think intelligence has nothing to do with the choosing. Ultimately one decides animals should exist as a delicious, nutritious source of protein, or those who would harm one's family should painfully cease to.

You can arrive at a completely different conclusion, but how is intelligence a factor in the choosing?

I disagree. I think it takes intelligence to accept and realize the ambiguity, complexity and downright contradictions that are endemic to our existence.

1. yEnc a DVD movie 2. Chop into many, many tweets 3. Fail whale!

This is completely subjective from my own experience, but it seems whenever I've tried taking fish oil supplements before, on more than one occasion I've felt kind of depressed and lethargic after a few days of taking them so I stop, then everything's back to normal. It's happened enough to suspect a pattern.

I'll stick with natural sources for these oils. Eggs, walnuts, etc. no problem, I eat lots of foods with omega-3s. Maybe there is something unnatural about swallowing a big concentrated dose of the stuff?

I don't really care to repeat the experiment to find out...

I think the proposed heavy tax on corporate contributions makes a nicer distinction between speech with words and "speech" with money.

Shallow water would probably fall within another sovereign's nautical territory.

Snow Crash or Diamond Age?

Remember the Solaris screensaver, how they used to blink around in a Conway game of life simulation?

I'll miss those little guys...

You work for Zynga? :P

An interesting up-and-coming alternative to a recently hyped, closed-platform tablet.

No. In fact, lately I find its too much trouble even to bother logging into delicious. I'll either star it or share it in Google Reader, or else I'll let it go. If it really matters, I'll just search for it again. Guess I'm feeding Google "the Big Pig" with all my habits, but I'm too lazy to care.

It'd be kind of interesting to more easily group links around some train of thought (stuff I need for a baseline XP install, links related to some startup idea, etc.) but I doubt I'd ever pay for it. I can use tags for this, but it's always been kind of a pain to actually do it in delicious.

Completely agree. I think the biggest problems facing such a shift though are how to address "rendezvous" of the clients and the same critical-mass adoption that plagues a traditional social networking contender.

He used familiar tools to quickly create a working prototype. He made progress with his thought experiment. Don't hate!

It probably means linux & homebrew games (games that can be developed without the often expensive and exclusive commercial, licensed SDKs required to develop for consoles) are coming soon for PS3. Maybe a port of Boxee (like XBMC for original Xbox) as well, unless Sony is wise enough to officially partner with Boxee...

Edit: yes, there is currently "linux" for ps3 but AFAIK it has limited access to HW, done on purpose by Sony. Running a true native linux would unlock the full capability of the hardware to the OS.

Thanks for new shiny thing! This does look cool.. what a great excuse for learning Lua!

I'm a little confused about the license. HyperGraphDB is LGPL, but ships with Berkeley DB. Isn't BDB GPL? Could I distribute a closed-source app with this?

I wouldn't click on the results with anything but Lynx.

Look at it like voting in America. Yeah, it probably doesn't mean squat, especially if your views contradict the local majority. But you still do it, right?

Appreciated the irony of reading this article while waiting a few seconds for a build.

I saw a tiger head for about a second. I said, "oh cool". Then Chrome said: "Aw, snap!"

My hope is Google withdraws and throws the resources into developing censorship-circumvention technology.

In Texas, we'd call that an annual cook-off.

At least Microsoft and Apple produce some useful applications. Macrovision is nothing but a preventer of entertainment consumption and fair-use.

Yeah, only quote LOC if its someone else's mess you cleaned up :)

Google likes to ask lots of algorithmic questions in rapid succession. At least they did when I interviewed. Knowing of a solution or library was not good enough (they seem to reinvent their own 'everything' anyway, perhaps for good reason?). If I wanted to work there, I would practice doing classic CS problems on a whiteboard in front of friends beforehand, it's much different than real life where you can look stuff up, mull things over a cup of coffee, take a walk, etc. They were in my face the whole time.

Ported Mafia Wars autoplayer to Google Chrome. Doing Little Schemer in Clojure, converting to use tail-call recur. Mowing the laundry.

I could see applications of this being very useful for military and peaceful solutions, especially if superatom chemistry can replace the demand for rare-earth elements.

Yes, this general "solution template" arises in many different applications, each with their own domain-specific constraints or specialized technology, requiring a customized solution.

A better alternative would be to find a way to dump the searchable information in "the cloud", but encode it in such a way to make it very difficult to detect or differentiate from "normal" content. The clients would know how to read and even search this "subliminal channel", and use it for rendezvous, etc.

"Cloud" could really be any public hosted online content, a social bookmarking site like reddit, S3, etc. I wonder how much data you could even stash inside flv video or mp3.

I'm not saying this would be easy, it would need to be redundant enough to withstand constant takedowns, etc. but it would be much more difficult to stop.

This is a bit off topic, but I related Avatar to Rudy Rucker's Postsingular. Same theme of technology becoming irrelevant when faced with superior natural/supernatural alternative, which I think reveals what we subconsciously desire, try and fail to create with technology.

Just like Postsingular made me wish someone would figure out how to strum the "lazy eight", Avatar left me wishing life on Earth came with an organic USB cable.

Sorry if there's a spoiler in there...