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The payroll tension was more interesting than the bullshit human interest soap opera tho. Let's hope they focus on the tech history stuff more and less fee-fee shit.

Heh, wait till you finish it. I don't want to spoil it, but it's a bit of a "through-the-looking-glass" thing considering how it resolves anyway. The most ridiculous thing about it is notion that the Japanese will be anything other than a rump gerontocracy with more debt than their 10% working...

The formal argument behind that Simulation Hypothesis has been out for over a decade and lots of prominent scientists give Nick Bostrom's original paper a lot of credence. Folks like Neill DeGrasse Tyson and Steven Hawking. A few years ago a team at the University of Washington came up with...

Since I'm not a fucking savage I don't actually have any family in Philadelphia so someone else should try to get into one of Uber's self-driving cabs and tape their trip just so we can see what Tuco's pooh-poohing is all about. The $600-million project formed with the former google...

Lol well Proxima Centauri has exactly the same 4 billion years left as the Sun does until this happens:

They'll prolly devolve into virtual stone-age mutant barbarians long before then.

So an MMO based on that movie Austenland?

The idea behind dyson swarms is that they'd become so nested within each other that they'd eventually capture 100% of a star's energy TO POWER A COMPUTING SUBSTRATE---the so called Matrioshka Brains. This was Bradbury's answer to the Fermi Paradox. The optimal use of all that captured energy...

Some of the best pop philosophy out there today isn't on print, it's on podcasts.

Millenials. Worthless generation.

Not on local streets though. They'd need like special bladed rims like those old Roman chariots to mow down hipsters on their fixie bikes too.

Arent the google cars communicating with each other to signal road conditions beyond their range and stuff already?

Yeah they'd have to build an even bigger Orion nuclear pulse ship to mount some kinda shield on it to survive microdebris. The largest version that was actually proposed by ARPA might be large enough since modern nukes would be about a third of the size of the proposed fuel bombs. Someone...

Funny you should mention that cuz there's a lot of callbacks to BC in Legion. A whole lot.

HAHA no, unlike "chugs" Zika-babies aren't a race.

Because it's story about a rich American misbehaving in a third world country. It's obviously a story about RACISM and INJUSTICE.

Worthless little third world pissant saw three wasted Gringos and saw an opportunity to feed his zika babies for the next five months. So he pulled gun and robbed them. How is that even complicated?

Isn't that like five months of your combined salary?

So yeah, apparently makeup that enshrinkens boonlips is racist

yo if we're resurrecting threads, some @Amod resurrect the butthurt lesbian thread.

It wasn't self-driven tho was it? If you make it cheap enough to own and maintain, all you really need to do is make it more affordable than rent and utilities. We can even bake in the costs of free national wifi as a loss-leader. Shit if you can make it cheap enough the whole thing could...

Tuco fuck all that shit. Let's get rich cuz I just got the notion of where autonomous vehicles would break into the consumer market: Let's all kickstarter the rerolled ROBO-WINNEBAGO! You can just cruise the country nonstop until you need to charge its batteries every thousand miles or so...

Sounds like a job for BIOHACKING.

Why not? The results have been pretty healthy and cute so far.

I actually think Black Man/Thirteen would make a cooler Netflix/HBO show than the Kovacs series. Not only is it better conceived and executed, it's way more timely and it's really the best near-future book I've read that deals with the consequences of the culture wars.

Looks great and Jeff Bridges is in his element:

Title: Hell or High Water (2016) Tagline: Blood always follows money. Genre: Crime, Drama Director: David Mackenzie Cast: Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gil Birmingham, Marin Ireland, Katy Mixon, Dale Dickey, Kevin Rankin, Melanie Papalia, John-Paul Howard, Christopher W...

Do all your babymamas stalk you like this?

Pretty cool shot of the Falcon9 arriving on the drone ship in Florida yesterday. This one has a worker at the site to put the rocket's size into perspective. All those videos don't really do the whole fucking SCALE of this thing justice. It's literally a 22-storey tall building riding a...

Well it IS a near-future dystopia, so it's framed around a global jihad so it could be seen as anti-islamic. Not to spoil anything but that's really little more than a framing device and the culprits behind the collapse end up being internal failures anyway. If you thought Illium and Olympos...

So anyone at 100+ hours and still playing this?

Not just the force... the Dark Side:

Dan Simmons' near future/ cyberpunk novel Flashback is particularly excellent and is proving to be earily prescient.

Ugh now we have to go back dozens of pages and tag all of Mists old posts as Faggotry.

It's not too late, goys. You can still go back:

They must've made the robot too cute. Who WOULDNT follow Wall-E if he ran around trying to rescue everyone.

Great now im reinstalling Cities:Skylines.... there should be a mod for hybrid autonomous/meatbag traffic by now.

Reads the newspaper or something. Prolly there to intervene on certain events. Sounds like something the gov just threw in there:

I dunno who you work for, but you haven't commented on Uber/Volvo's rollout of 100 autonomous cars this month. It's on level 3 of the NTSB's chart thingie so it still requires a driver, but Uber hired the lead scientists from CMU and Stanford's Autonomous car team---basically three of the...

I have trouble playing from the right side of the map lol.... I keep wanting to use my right hand to move and myleft hand for abilities and end up crossing over!