I remember attending MacWorld Boston in '97, at the age of 12, and seeing a BeOS demo. I was blown away by a demonstration that consisted of a video file playing on the page of a rendered book.

If you clicked the page of the book and dragged it around, it simulated the page turning and the video deforming, without skipping a frame.

I may've only been 12, but that demo has stuck with me since.

Edit: I would love to lay eyes on that demo again if anyone has an idea of where video of it may still exist.

OBD-II :)

That's the one! I really hope that ODBC is not introduced as a required part of vehicle safety regulations!

Put the RV parks underground and pump in fresh air and fiber-optic daylight.

Put the apartment buildings above ground, and RV parks underground with fresh air pumped in and fiber-optic lighting carrying natural light down from the surface. Have elevators going from below ground, and from the apartments, to ground-level retail complexes and terrestrial activities.

Then have underground hyperloop tunnels to connect the RV parks, so that you can go to sleep in your home and move it from city to city, and pop up above ground to enjoy local tourism.

Or New York or Connecticut or Colorado... or probably a myriad of other places that I've heard the phrase used.

FWIW, there is a food cart in Singapore that has a Michelin star -- Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice and Noodle. Not so much as far as interior design or wine selection goes.

What media would someone collect now to be used in the future to reproduce the likeness of loved ones? Video clips of them moving? Talking? Different poses of pictures? Reading the dictionary out loud to get vocal patterns?

Heck with impersonating the POTUS. What about a lost friend, sibling or parent?

Black Mirror did this I think - if we can make video, then why not VR (down the line if processing catches up), Second Life iterated.

Heaven on Earth?

Also see the film Marjorie Prime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Prime

Wouldn't that be some kind of horrific emotional uncanny valley?

Yeah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkE6RBlfbXA This isn't the worst one, there was a time when PKD's daughter interviewed the head and he went off on a rant about how much he disliked his family. That was really rough.

Growing is more work than most people have interest for, just as home-brewing is not practical for everyone.

square foot gardening, little to no maintenance other than keeping "weeds" out :)

People frequently and vastly underestimate how much people are willing to pay for the convenience of paying somebody else to do something for them.

Yes, but only to the extent that they themselves aren't willingly paying for the convenience of having somebody else do something for them.

When they are, well, that's just common sense. When they aren't, well, those who do otherwise are just being indulgent.

Housekeeper? Indulgent. Startbucks coffee? Convenient.

The (social) legitimacy of expenditures is usually a matter of custom, not economic analysis.

I think it is worth mentioning that violent crime and property crime are down more than 10% post-legalization, that the state forecasts $30M in tax revenue, and $2M has already been created for local schools.

http://rt.com/usa/163644-colorado-marijuana-crime-drop/

I'd love to know whether DUIs have also fallen. Liquor and beer manufacturers are among the biggest opponents of marijuana legalization campaigns.

I don't have the stats but I read an article from a local news organization that arrests for driving while under the influence of marijuana are up significantly. However, that could be just increased enforcement or awareness by police to look for it than actual incidents of driving while high.

These driving while high statistics are pretty error prone. There is no marijuana breathalyzer. A blood test shows traces of THC in your body from up to 30 days ago. So if you get in an accident and get blood tested and it comes back positive, were you high at that moment? Or a week ago? Or a month ago?

I'm sure the technology will improve. In fact, a "marijuana breathalyzer" (using that term loosly because you would need something that can test for edibles too), is probably a pretty interesting product to bring to market

Very likely, and even if it were not the case you could still have a net decrease in DUIs with an increasing amount of marijuana DUIs.

I am pretty sure there have been some studies that show people under the influence of marijuana are less likely to drive than people under the influence of alcohol so it just depends on whether marijuana is replacing alcohol or not.

The 10% stat is from Denver. Does it hold state wide? Statistically significant? Confounding factors?

I'm genuinely curious, but want to make sure such things are sound before using them in national debate.

> Statistically significant?

A statistically insignificant result is politically significant: it wrecks the 'omg pot smokers will lead to tons of crime' argument some politicians were making.

Absolutely a stat local to Denver. Worth the clarification for the benefit of non-locals.

I wouldn't draw very much from that violent crime factoid. Denver was not exactly the most violent city before legalization, and has its own circumstances, so you wouldn't want to generalize from Denver's example to more violent urban centers like Chicago or New York for example.

Although I absolutely agree that the tax revenue is a great boon.

New York's murder rate is very similar to Denver's, and was actually lower in 2012. Its violent days are long past, and even its bad neighborhoods are as safe from violent crime as its richest 20 years ago: http://observer.com/2013/05/bloomberg-recalls-upper-east-sid...

http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Denver-Colorado.html http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-New-York-New-York.html

Reefer Madness was not a documentary. Going crazy? Robbing and killing? Arson?

You've clearly never smoked pot.

EDIT: As pointed out by the replies, I clearly didn't do my research before responding ;) Apologies.

Check gwern's site :)

http://www.gwern.net/

He has experimented with lots of drugs, up to and including LSD.

By the way, a close relative does smoke pot (it's legal in my country, Uruguay) and we believe it has brought to the front some (probably preexisting) mental problems which could be described as "going crazy".

I do support legalization, but it's not entirely innocuous (it is my belief it's milder than alcohol, but then again, alcohol does bring some extreme reactions and kills a lot of people)

You are replying to http://www.gwern.net/ :-D My money is on him having smoked pot.

I was being sarcastic about peoples' fears about marijuana, yes, and hopefully making my observation a little more salient: since the distribution of consumption is so ridiculously bimodal (look at pg15, it's amazing), that means there are a lot of people getting extremely high doses, but without obvious ill effects.