Who would have thought my favorite movie would star Will Ferrel?

Why hasn't anyone picked up on the e-ink smartwatch combo? Is it patented and held by Fitbit?

Low power bluetooth is now a widespread thing. These watches ought to be getting into the 2-week per charge range by now. Damn it.

RIP Pebble.

Why ever would you presuppose it will be less annoying than the airport?

The public's perception of its safety will guarantee political meddling to look like they are "doing something" about hyperloop safety.

Here's the breakdown:

    1) News media will figure out that they can sell more eyeballs if they sensationalize the perceived dangers.
    2) Populace will demand to feel safer with hyperloops.
    3) Politicians realize it doesn't politically cost them anything to hype rhetorical hyperloop insecurity.

This will pave the way for google managed [NSA approved] email encryption.

Friended. You haven't moved to the Free State yet, have you?

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is just awesome.

Dan Carlin's Common Sense suffers for the amount of effort that goes into Hardcore History. It takes him months to research and put out HH.

I keep up with EconTalk, ContraKrugman, Freakanomics and Security Now every week.

If you like Freakanomics give EconTalk a try.

I have a list of podcasts called 'On The Road' which is for when I have guests / gf in the car. This has:
Selected Shorts
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
This American Life
Serial

Random others:
The Dice Tower
Test and Code
Talk Python to Me
Podcast.__init__
Science Friday
StarTalk Tadio

I so had moderator points just YESTERDAY. +1

NH was far more libertarian than any other state to begin with. Show up, be a good neighbor, make friends. Show them that their doubts about how things operate now in their government aren't strange, aren't just them, and that there have always been folks fighting back the size of government in NH's citizen legislature. Then get them to run. :)

Called the "Silicon Millyard". Every morning Segway's creator flies in on his helicopter, dyn.com employees plug in their Tesla's, dozens of startups load up on coffee. Many of these are concerned with the blockchain - this is the epicenter of bitcoin innovation going forward.

I moved to NH for the Free State Project in 2008 after learning of the project here on Slashdot years before. I've since met the folks that wrote those early articles and got to thank them personally for getting me here.

Rather than list of the hundred reasons to live here I'll list just one penultimate result: NH is the wealthiest state per capita in the country. The FSP's inadvertent founder, Jason Sorens, recently crunched the numbers and reports it may be one of the wealthiest province/state per capita in the world. Crunching numbers is what he teaches for a living.

This is likely what they were told to say.

NH unemployment is the lowest in the New England, if not the East coast, and has been for the last decade.

This was part of the debate as to which state to move to. As was having a seaport. Free-er trade than the rest of the country could mean big bucks down the road.

It is true that amongst the small set of early movers, a smaller still subset of this small set of individuals have chosen to further concentrate their subset of ideas of how to best minimize the effects of force on their lives.

Meaning - yeah, if you live in Grafton then you will live in interesting times.

There are a whole lot of anarchists here in NH. They decide to engage in the political system, or not, as they wish. It is great to have anarchists as part of the greater discussion. When talking about politics, one is talking about force - at least here in NH that is not disputed and is part of the framework of debate. ... some of them are even elected, under different costumes.

The first time the FSP was on /. I was tempted. The second time the FSP was on /. I signed up.

Now I've lived here for five years. This is the real deal, NH has the perfect state and local government for this experiment. Politics is the unofficial state sport of NH with 400 state reps for only 1.3 million constituents that are about equally divided between the two major parties. Republican and democratic parties engage our ideas, sometimes in battle, other times in courtship. You don't have to explain first principles over and over again, everyone here knows government like fire can be a dangerous master, you get to have debate and make an impact on people and policy with all that stuff as accepted framework of the discussion.