Holy shit... watch at 0:14 into the video.

A bunch of soldiers are running across a town square in front of some kind of artillery gun... just as they pass it someone fires the gun and it knocks the last guy clean off his feet!

Surprised he didn’t talk more about Tolkien. The lord of the rings was basically just an excuse for Tolkien to play with languages.

Also, I love hearing Jason Momoa talk about Dothraki. He clearly enjoyed it and his description (fozzy bear being assaulted by Jabba the Hutt) is brilliant.

Disclaimer: I am actually in favour of legalising drugs, but to answer your question....

The state does have a responsibility to protect you, even from yourself. Hence things like warning labels, etc.

Also, for most countries, there is a social and economic cost associated with drugs. Even leaving aside criminal activity (i.e. committing crimes to feed a drug habit), there is a cost for healthcare, lost productivity (heavy drug users are often unemployed) and in social welfare.

This is the same argument applied to increasing controls on smoking (taxes, plain packaging etc).

However, my main problem with all this is that it just doesn't work. The "war on drugs" is a total failure. People continue to use drugs.

Upvote for worms reference!

I love seeing mathematical concepts expressed physically in a way people can understand. *quality

more on the golden ratio here:

That's cool, but how is it different from photoshops "content aware fill" that debuted 8 years ago?

Yeah, that was my thought too. Trackballs also solve the inertia problem too.

There's also a company called Virtuix, that solve the problem by having a bowl-like base with special slippery shoes. http://www.virtuix.com/

“If you’re not paying, you’re not the customer, you’re the product”

I quite like the concept (or at least the original user facing concept) of Facebook. I have friends and family scattered all over the world and it’s nice to see what they’re up to.

So I would happily pay a few bucks a month for a service that is like Facebook but doesn’t sell your data.

But the problem is the network effect... that service is only useful if everyone is on it.

Wow, you would have thought that starting the car would require proximity to the key as well. That seems like a really basic security flaw.

What happens if you leave the car unlocked (or worse, the door or window is open?

"I've always wondered myself about keyless tech safety for this exact reason. How can the signal not just be copied and replayed?"

Well, I can't say for certain, but if I was designing it, the signal wouldn't be the same every time. Basically, you would have an algorithm that generates a signal (essentially a large number encoded as a binary stream) based on a seed and the current time.

The seed is unique to the car and the key.

So when you press the button, the key does something like

entryCode = SomeComplexAlgorithm(seed, time())

so the car would do something like

entryRequest = GetSignal()
checkedRequest = SomeComplexAlgorithm(sameSeedAsKey, time())
if (checkedRequest == entryRequest) Unlock()

That's obviously a vast oversimplification (not sure how they'd get around the time sync), but you get the idea.

What surprises me here is not that the car starts, but that it doesn't cut out once it gets out of range of the key. Even a strong relay would only have a short range (1-2km at most?).

also, a discussion of NZ's inherent superiority over the West Island is about as *downunder as you can get

some *quality cox there. Love me some thermodynamics. Gives me an opportunity to bust out one of my favourite science quotes:

"The law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations — then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation — well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation."
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

Entropy is, somewhat perversely, information.
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No, Charlie needs to learn from his mistakes and ignore Lucy.

Kicking her will just allow her to cry "victim".

And that is EXACTLY what happens with the politicians.