Stories by lisper

Upgrade or die: Apple's re-invention of the version ratchet

Ethics charges filed against DOJ lawyer who exposed Bush-era surveillance

Gravity Wells (by Randall Munroe)

Is e Normal?

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Dilbert author Scott Adams

2015 was officially the hottest year on record

PiAware – build your own ADS-B ground station for integration with FlightAware

Overhauling a 747 [video]

David Deutsch on why it is so hard to create general AI (2012)

How jumbo jet engines are made [video]

The slowly fading art of flying–and maintaining–Cold War fighter jets

Cryptol – a statically typed functional language for cryptography

My simplified response to Paul Graham's simplified essay

The pernicious myth of individual productivity

Survivor Library: How to Survive and Prosper Without Modern Technology

Extraordinary Toroidal Vortices (2010) [video]

U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History, 1862-2013

Income inequality is not the problem, it's a symptom

Does this “humanlike” robot receptionist make you feel welcome or creeped out?

Gun deaths map: How many people have died or been injured in shootings near you?

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