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  1. "Asian day care" on Internet-Deprived Kids Turning To 'McLibraries' · · Score: 1

    A number of suburban libraries have complained that parents tell their kids to hang out there until the parents get home from work. Sometimes the kids get bored and feisty and the libraries dont like it.

  2. HP was there before Intel on Silicon Valley Before the Startup · · Score: 1

    On a tech campus just east of Stanford. After their historical garage . HP was mainly about electronic instruments then. Xerox PARC, NeXT and FaceBook had buildings in the same complex.

  3. give cars legs and planes feathers on The Human Brain Project Receives Up To $1.34 Billion · · Score: 1

    Its unclear how far closely imitating the unlying mechanisms gets you.

  4. similar complain with microsoft on Facebook To App Developers: Good Idea, Now Stop Using Our API · · Score: 2

    There were more efficient functions in the deep code which werent exposed to the outside world. Internal developers could write more efficient applications than 3rd party.

    Limiting the scope of an external API is often done to improve testing and documentation. Too wide an interface is harder to support.

  5. poor design by FB? on Facebook To App Developers: Good Idea, Now Stop Using Our API · · Score: 1

    If their API (which I have not seen) lets see more than one in-link or out-link deep, then a crawler could traverse much of the total FB friend network. Their terms of service appear to prohibit crawling. They ASK the app just operate on the user and immediate friends at hand.

  6. bought via PayPal, of course on Elon Musk Offers Boeing SpaceX Batteries For the 787 Dreamliner · · Score: 1

    another Musk company

  7. the church is buying out the press run on Book Review: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief · · Score: 1

    so others cannot read it. that will cause a best-seller blip

    they we accused of buying and reselling Ron's books on a massive scale to get on the best-seller lists

  8. APPL pays about 25 cents per gigabyte flash on With 128GB, iPad Hits Surface Pro, Ultrabook Territory · · Score: 1

    They co-own some of the flash factories. The buy flash in massive volumes. They are not losing any money on the top upgrade and making a killing on the lowest upgrade.

  9. more of a philosphy of life; religion for finances on Book Review: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief · · Score: 1

    When you start is more about clearing your mind and how to live rather than some supernatural scaffolding like many religions. That would make it more like contemplative Buddhism or Epicurism. But if you go deep enough into the church there is some way out supernatural aspect in later courses.

    The "religious" aspect seemed to be more of a ruse to avoid taxes and government interference. But other churches sometimes abuse this too.

  10. church gave "free sessions" at county fair on Book Review: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief · · Score: 1

    I was attended the Denver county Fair last summer. The church had a large booth with a half dozen counselors showing how their e-meter sessions worked. I was surprised to see the sessions fully occupied most of the time and not much snickering among the bystanders. The church openly used their name which was not always the case in the past. I presume they discuss some simple childhood memory, like losing a favorite toy. Then explore the emotions tied with this memory. Then you can sign up and pay thousands for more comprehensive sessions if you like it.

    They opened a large new HQ building downtown lat year. So I presume they have a fair following here. But I've never met anyone who has claimed to be a scientologist nor really want to.

  11. NBC newsmagazine story about this book on Book Review: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief · · Score: 1

    Rock Center is an NBC television news magazine run by Brian Williams, the main evening anchor. Recently they did a story on this book. I thought the attempt was bold, considering the blowback they'll get from the church. NBC did not spend much time talking about the beliefs, which can get wild at times. But they talked about how the church manipulates some of its members lives. There was a couple who had been clergy level for 30 years before they left. The couple and church fought over whether they could first, have a child, and second whether the child could live with them. When the couple decided to leave, they put them in confinement for some period to reconsider their decision to leave. Then they billed the couple over $100K for room & board and education while in the church. The couple actually paid good chunk of that to get the church off their back. The church gave written answers to NBC's questions, but declined an in-person interview. I thought NBC practically bent over backwards to try to be fair.

  12. what is the state of your singularity documentary? on Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil About the Future of Mankind and Technology · · Score: 1

    I saw you and your movie in Breckenridge in 2010. Although it was a little too long it did have lots of interesting pieces. Will it see general release sometime?

  13. more conventional batteries add few hundred lbs on Dreamliner: Boeing 787 Aircraft Battery "Not Faulty" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Even though every pound saved cuts thousands of pounds of fuel and carbon emissions over the plane's lifetime, this extra is small compared to the total plane mass, passengers and luggage. Not to mention having and expensive plane out of service for possibly months.

  14. Japanese covering their butts? on Dreamliner: Boeing 787 Aircraft Battery "Not Faulty" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Japanese government agency defending a Japanese company. I wait for a more objective report which I believe is in the pipeline.

  15. happens in US often enough on Chinese Supplier Gets Dumped By Apple For Fraudulently Using Underage Labor · · Score: 1

    Plenty of high school students drop out to earn money due to family encouragement. Staying in school is viewed as unproductive.

  16. Was it President Ahmadinejad? on Iran Says It Sent Monkey Into Space and Back · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sometimes his policy explanations are as believable as a monkey's.

  17. how to make a 20-something's eye roll on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    Tell them stories about punch cards.

  18. same thing in US on Unemployed Chinese Graduates Say No Thanks To Factory Jobs · · Score: 1

    I worked menial jobs while in school. Plenty of my co-workers and relatives would nver consider letting their children do such.

  19. internal versus external hacks treated differently on Have Questions For MIT's Aaron Swartz Review? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Internal hacks at MIT are a tradition. Good ones are celebrated. When an outsider physically entered a building and wiretapped a network to bypass a fire wall that was seen as an attack on property. In this case it got way overblown into a federal case. but there was still a crime here.

  20. he'll butcher Star Wars like Star Trek on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    He did not adhere to the cannon. He used cheesy special effects.

  21. 25 year exploration plan in place on Opportunity Begins 10th Year on Mars · · Score: 1

    Curiosity, although rated for only two earth years, could last decade. And NASA has the approval to send another version of Curiosity to Mars in 6-8 years. It would use the same infrastructure to cut costs. But it would have a a more modern set of instruments.

  22. reverse causation on The Mathematics of the Lifespan of Species · · Score: 1

    We dont live longer because we are larger, but are larger because we live longer. Both could be tied to a third factor such as inherent genetic metabolic rate.

  23. short term pleasure versus long term benefits on The Mathematics of the Lifespan of Species · · Score: 1

    I've always exercised for short term well-being feeling and the fun of sport. As long as it doesnt seem to damage you in the long term (there are some open questions about this) or even lengthens you life, then all the better. I feel sorry for those slog through unpleasant exercise thinking they'll live a few years longer.

  24. exercise drastically cuts heart rate on The Mathematics of the Lifespan of Species · · Score: 1

    A very fit adult human will have a pulse rate of 50 or under, compared to the so-called medical average of 70. Say you triple your heart rate for one hour a day during vigorous exercise for the 25% reduction the other 23 hours. That is still a 13% pulse rate reduction over all.

  25. comments about the movie Jurassic Park? on Interviews: Ask What You Will of Paleontologist Jack Horner · · Score: 3

    The 20th anniversary enhanced version will return to theaters in a few weeks. Supposedly Crichton modeled the Sam Neill character partly after you. What positive and negative things did this movie do for dinosaur paleontology? I would have thought it got a few more children interested in the subject.