Panoramix

You (wrongly) assume drug dealers and their surrounding cast are balanced and rational individuals. There's a huge spread, but when you interact with criminals living on the edge of society you …

You have to stop at some point. Or do you go in depth into the workings of >10Gbps transceivers? the quantum mechanics of optical fibers? how to they manufacture top-notch photodiodes anyway? You c…

They have kept their research division alive. And they actually do a lot of research, as opposed to mooching from universities or refining what competitors do. https://en.wikipedia.org/…

Not to veer off topic, but that's horrible and depressing.

One of the most racist and misinformed comments I have come across in a while. You are an embarrassment to Koreans everywhere.

IoT is one of the most useless large-scale projects that humanity has embarked on. A giant waste of resources across thousands of companies, so your fridge can order more milk for you. Spending billio…

I do agree with you, but I have the feeling you have a narrow view of how these guys look like. Your argument was not too compelling. For all I know they could be giant gas clouds, silicon life forms,…

Those are huge assumptions IMO. Maybe they don't feel the need or comprehend the concept of communicating over long distances. Maybe they discovered a different force we don't know of. Just …

The US could fit most of your points, probably even better. The world is not "doomed". What does that even mean? China certainly has its issues, but this sort of irrational fear speaks to me…

Your analogies are completely off the mark. It is not the same at all. The cornerstone of science is that other people can reproduce your results. Period. There is no use publishing otherwise. Withhol…

Yeah but in order to manufacture that computer and projector you needed vast amounts of energy, water, minerals, plastics, rare earths, compounds that don't exist naturally in our planet, polluti…

Well, a lot of people argue that the moon landing was a hoax (without knowing basic engineering) and that the holocaust didn't happen (without knowing basic history). I find it more depressing th…

This guy is a real jedi. Did he build his own Ag evaporator?

I fail to see the hype of 3D printing. We have milling machines for ages. As I understand it, what printing brings to the table is good niche applications where the shapes would be difficult for tradi…

Very unfair comparison. Chopra is full of pseudo-scientific bullshit, whereas the Dalai Lama has notably stated that “If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism…

Interesting article. In my experience, the converse is often true: Engineers want to solve the difficult issues, while the more trivial get relatively little attention and end up causing most of the i…

Was it because he couldn't tell, or because he didn't want to push on the issue?

How on Earth is it not different? Wolves/Lions have no machine guns, thermal sensors, armor, chemical weapons, and more importantly, are not controlled by a human third party. This research is fu…

No such thing as luck. I read the article and I wouldn't know what qualifies as outrageously lucky. The NASA deal that came just in time, maybe. But it's not luck to get a contract for launc…

50mph is quite fast. The competition is about 3mph, so 10mph would already be a 3-fold improvement. So: shoot 1 per second, or have a shotgun approach, or simply have more than 1 pass per drone, or mu…

This is awesome, really in the hacker spirit. I wonder why it didn't reach the front page.

That's true, you incurred in a false equivalence fallacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence …

For what is worth, I'd rather be executed than to "live" in an American prison. The idea that solitary confinement occurs in a first world country is appalling and scary. Don't get…

Were they not TEDx talks? you can virtually pick up anybody from the street to do one of those.

How does TED fits in all of this?

I found that completely unsurprising

I find this the weakest theory. Nobody would have forced him to participate in the Manhattan project.

Tea is an obvious choice to start with this. Huge demand, extremely lightweight, reasonably priced. Nothing "weird" about it.

Do you have the references for that? It's I topic I'm quite interested in.