So there I was, 14 years old, at Tall Oaks Camp and Conference Center for church camp. Which was hilarious because I didn't believe in all that God crap. I went because I was sent. I didn't need to believe in God; I had Science, and that was way better. Science I could explain. Science I could understand.Each evening we'd have a late service in the outdoor chapel. At each of these, one of the campers would give a testimonial. So I'm sitting there, about 8 pm on a hot summer night, bored out of my mind, packed onto a pew next to a couple friends....
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
The Most Important Sentence In An Article About Robots
Posted on 07:52 by hony
Is this: Nowadays when we see productivity increases, [the financial benefit] ends up at the top; it goes to the CEO, to the shareholders, but workers don’t get any of it.Read the rest, he...
Friday, 22 March 2013
Thursday, 14 March 2013
The Flow Becomes A Trickle
Posted on 12:31 by hony
My dear, dear readers,I have decided to write a book. Or at least try my hardest to write a book. It's a hard science fiction novel about wealth inequality and the Technological Singularity. Subseqently, much of the time I've spent in the past writing blog posts (or reading other blogs for things about which to rant on my blog) will now be devoted to long form. I'm not gone; I'm sure a blog post will pop up here and there. But my time is elsewhere.Wish me luck. I've never written anything long before. I've never felt the nee...
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Graphene Is Just This Decade's 'Carbon Nanotubes'
Posted on 13:30 by hony
Graphene is the 2010's version of 2000's "carbon nanotube."I swear...I wish I had a dollar for every article announcing a new theoretical game-changing technology that relies on as-yet-unmanufacturable graphene sheets.In just the last 14 days:Graphene could make high-efficiency desalinization filterGraphene could work in transistors in high-frequency electronicsGraphene could transform DNA sequencingGraphene could efficiently transform light into powerGraphene antennas could yield high-power wi-fiGraphene could make batteries obsoleteGraphene could...
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Liberty Is Like A Butterfly
Posted on 18:57 by hony
Once you rub its wings, even just a little...it can fly no more.Eric Holder won't assassinate me with a Hellfire missile fired from a predator drone while I am within the U.S. border......unless he really, really needs t...
Monday, 4 March 2013
Love.
Posted on 18:42 by hony
Says it so much better than I can.And this:Thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away. And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the mornin...
Friday, 1 March 2013
Young Idealism is Still Not Misguided
Posted on 22:31 by hony
The unfortunate truth about the Haiti earthquake is that we can't just throw money at these problems and expect them to get fixed. Aid money went mostly "to bandages," writes Jonathan Katz, author of the new book The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster. A friend of mine working as part of the State Department's ongoing effort to rebuild Haitian government tells me that the aid dollars have been in many ways the opposite of helpful. Aid money pays for free food and clothing for the people of Port...
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