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  • Commented on Trust Me (I'm a kettle)
    Late to the show as usual, but I recently came across this article describing how bog-standard MicroSD cards (not the fancy ones that phone home to the cloud) can be hacked as well. As it turns out, those cards have...
  • Commented on Making history personal
    Slept in as a tourist: I'm pretty sure this is the (cheap and nice!) hotel in Bytow Castle in Poland, dating to the late 14th/early 15th century. Lived in: My old apartment in the centre of Utrecht in the Netherlands,...
  • Commented on Polemic: how readers will discover books in future
    Aren't bookstores a form of (altruistic) bookspam too? Even staying away from the chains, it is very well possible for me to end up buying more books than intended! It's one of the few forms I don't particularly mind -...
  • Commented on A deceptively simple question
    I've also heard (first-hand) reports that the cheap Chinese clamps don't actually clamp all that well. But maybe a simple elastic cord + clip can function as a failsafe....
  • Commented on A deceptively simple question
    The city I live in has these cute little trucks running around in the city center: http://www.cargohopper.nl/cargohopper_info/ (in Dutch, sorry) - they run on electricity (part of which is generated on the roofs of the vehicles), they aren't as heavy...
  • Commented on Commercial interlude
    Loved it! A minor nitpick: the Hetty's last name is spelled "van 't Hooft" - the apostrophe-t is a shortening of 'het'....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Halting State
    A couple of years ago, you said that over 50% of the predictions in Halting State had come true. How much is that now? Haven't read HS in a while yet, but I did recently read Rule 34 (signed by...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: The Merchant Princes
    I bought the full set of three on May 31st at Waterstones in Amsterdam (ABC had run out so I got an autographed Rule 34 instead :). Then I went on to visit Brouwerij 't IJ for one of the...
  • Commented on It's a Wonderful Life
    @52: Suppose, for example, that there is a procedure that can save someone's life, but that costs $1 million. Here it becomes important to define what you mean by 'saving a life': postponing death for some fixed amount of time,...
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