…you can’t get your childhood back. As someone in my early twenties when it came back, I was a lot less impressed than the kids at the time. After the duds that were Eps 1-3, I’ll probably wait for it to be free on television. Encouraging thoughts from David Brin on what he calls the “best year for space since the 70s.” …rejuvenated with an asthma drug. Faster, please. More thoughts on my USA Today piece, over at Ricochet. Matt Ridley: Its benefits could easily exceed its costs. That seems likely to me. I have a project in mind for which I have some unique requirements. I’d like a low-res, narrow-field webcam, robust enough for all-weather outdoor use. I can’t find anything that meets the requirement in a search, but wonder if anyone has ideas for how to hack one? For instance, if it’s got like a five megapixel sensor, could I easily just look at the center of it, without having to process the whole image? I’ll probably be hitching it to a Raspberry Pi 2. [Update a while later] OK, it looks like a standard webcam hooked up to a Raspberry Pi 2, with this software, should give me sufficient power to do what I want. Why they must be programmed to kill. Popular Science takes a deep dive into the town, its past, and perhaps its future. It’s a tough place, for now, to retain employees. A new paper from Mercatus, citing me and the book. In fact, I used the FDA as another example of a risk-averse bureaucracy in the book.Sorry, Star Wars Fans
Bootstrapping A Solar-System Civilization
Old Rat Brains
Mars Is Safe From NASA
Carbon Dioxide
Narrow-View Cameras
Self-Driving Cars
Mojave
Regulating Medical Devices