Interesting Links for 30-08-2012

[andrewducker]

• Some great discussion here about mainframes, and what they're still useful for.
  (tags: mainframe computers )
• For poorer children, living in a high-cost area hurts academic development
  (tags: poverty inequality education )
• Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine
  (tags: cyborg technology biology thefuture )
• The 5 1/4 inch

Comments

[gonzo21]

Shit. I have that casio watch on my desk RIGHT NOW!

[bart_calendar]

Traitor.

[gonzo21]

Hopefully a government internet snoop will detect this admission and come and lock me up soon for the safety of the state.

Oh god. I've got a beard too!

[a_pawson]

Citizen, please report to G'tmo immediately.

[cartesiandaemon]

They talked about connection problems, did reddit get POTUSed? :)

[danieldwilliam]

I thinking a kickstarter for the rape testing kits might be a useful cross over.

[andrewducker]

See, part of me thinks "That would be great! People could club together and make things better!"

And then part of me thinks that this is what tax is _for_, and that getting good-hearted people to pay for work our police-forces should be doing as standard doesn't fix things in the long-term.

[nancylebov]

The outcome of a kickstarter would be hard to guess, but kickstarters might work as a clue to governments about what people really want, and what's worth supporting as a way to get elected.

[andrewducker]

True in some ways. But biased to people with spare money to spend on such things.

[usmu]

First:
From the war on terror list: "If I'd known the watch was connected with terrorism I'd have thrown it away." That proofs you've got something to hide, you must be a terrorist!

Second:
So you basically have to be crazy to be a climate change denier. Who'd have thought that? Call me positively shocked!

[danieldwilliam]

I wonder what happens to the chances of finding a soulmate if you can have one from a pool of ten.

[andrewducker]

My intuition says that it would take 1/10th as long. But someone with better mathematical understanding than me will probably point out that that's completely wrong.

[danieldwilliam]

Well that’s where my head is too. With ten times as many opportunites it feels like it ought to take 1/10th of the time but I guess it could be some kind of logarithmic thing

[simont]

No, I think this is one of those situations where the maths actually does work out the way you'd intuitively expect it to.