If I recall, the bet is framed on the wall in a 3 Rd floor hallway in one of the astrophysics buildings at Caltech. One of my buddies who worked on LIGO showed it to me once. I chortled breifly. Ah, science.

The difference between a hackerspace and a workshop is huge. The key difference is the community, it doesn't belong to anybody so anything goes, it's like hippie commune meets workshop meets research lab minus the proposals and endless journal paper spewing. It's not so much about making the tools available (like techshop does), but more about building a group of engineers, tinkerers, and technodweebs to hang out with after work is over.

  Yeah there's a weird maker movement thing that people are pushing along side it, but hackerspaces are a place to hack, a place to figure out why you keep getting that "the printer is on fire" message. A place to admonish the newbs who tell repost jokes from reddit. You can get a project done alot faster when the guy next to you working on the ARM based LED vest can email you instructions on how that quadrature encoder you found in the drawer in the back outputs grey code in 5 minutes instead of spending half a day online looking for just the right answer.

I'm super glad I found Crashspace in LA, it's like my in person version of slashdot, and I'm living the technodream :D

I think the Tesla Model X is supposed to be in the 30-50k range, down from the Model S 50-80k bracket. I'd say we're well on the way to electric cars competing with mid level cars.

I'm from the US and I can assure you some of us know what cold is. Upstate NY goes from -30F to 105F and everything in between. There are definitely colder places but a normal winter here is 5-10F for months.

Do you really want them voting though? I'm serious. You should care about them learning about the options more than whether or not they vote. An uniformed vote is far worse than a vote not cast.

We should be encouraging people to vote smarter, which also means not voting if you were too busy or apathetic to cast an informed vote.

In which case they would be receiving a form of public insurance. My issue with your post was that it came off sounding like your neighbors health doesn't affect you and therefore government shouldn't be involved with healthcare. But it sounds like we are pretty much on the same page after all.

Until your neighbor can't afford to give their kid a vaccine, and your kid gets a disease and dies because he was one of those that the vaccine doesn't work on. The health of the population is in the best interest of the entire population. I don't think the healthcare law is the best solution but to say that the health of your neighbor doesn't affect you is to live in a very small bubble.

Funny thing is, Dragon is orders of magnitude safer than the Shuttle and probably safer than Apollo. It has the ability to abort from the rocket at any time.

And forced him out of office, don't forget about that.

Or Goldman Sachs, oil is priced based on the futures market, not supply and demand.

When are people going to realize that hacking is now a meaningless buzzword applied to anything that has thought put into it? I feel like this was a neat side project for a few electrical/software engineers, nothing was co-opted or done without permission, no hardware was repurposed, nothing was "hacked". They just got alot of commercial off the shelf stuff, put it together with a little know-how and did what engineers do every day. I know this was posted here because it's MIT, and everyone loves it to death when they do anything remotely tech related, but lighting up buildings with LED's has been going on forever, there's nothing particularly novel here other than their specific implementation, no advances in tech have been made.

Maybe I'm jaded...

The moon has been moving its orbit out since it was created....

Actually it kind of does. The elastic clause gives some leeway there but in the initial view of the country the federal government was supposed to be merely a unifying force bringing together a number of independent states. After the Civil War the power balance shifted to the federal government over the states.

The three-fifths compromise was in the Constitution along with the guarantee that slave imports would be illegal after twenty years (I forget the exact wording)

I wish I still had mod points. This might be the most concise argument I've ever seen on the topic.