On Rich People Advised To Plan For Private Jets To Avoid Sequester Delays At Commercial Airports
This advice is relevant me, if you replace 'private jet' with 'Greyhound bus'.
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On The Higgs Boson Made Simple
Fundamental-ish particles have all sorts of properties, including "strangeness" and "charm" and "flavour". The language is fanciful, but the terms a really just shorthand for the mathematical relationships we describe them with.
In a way, "inertia/mass" is now shorthand for "strength of coupling to the Higgs field", though it is a physical concept that our senses have some access to.
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On Let's Make the Sequester the SEA QUESTER!
We already have a turtle senator, why not a dolphin?
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On These Robots Are Going To Kill Us All
@Gef the Talking Mongoose He no longer works on such things, but I sent him the brick-throwing video and he replied "That is so totally cool. And scary."
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On The Real Weird Twitter Is Espionage Twitter
A good way to distribute keys for warez?
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On These Robots Are Going To Kill Us All
@Lockheed Ventura ...and the First Law of Robotics.
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On These Robots Are Going To Kill Us All
My boss helped create Big Dog. We show the video of someone kicking the 'bot to our students and there is always a collective empathetic trill that goes up from the lecture hall.
Big Dog is designed to carry heavy Army stuff in wars, but maybe someday Big Dog will help carry Grandma's groceries?
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On "Too Much Like Reality": Writer Frank Bill On Violence, Meth And Work
The book cover looks like the cover to Vulgar Display of Power.
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On White Conservatives On Supreme Court Wondering Whether We Need Laws That Allow Black People To Vote For Democrats
@stuffisthings Thomas will give you a shit sandwich, too, but on rye instead of whole wheat!
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On Blame English For Your Lack Of Self-Control
Suicides in East Asia tend to be "spur of the moment" type things, while Westerners will make more elaborate preparations and devote more thought to it. "Resisting immediate impulses" is not a universal description in this case.