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Where is your dividing line here?

You say "[a] country filled with Arabs, Africans, and Afghans isn't Germany" and then question someone who wants to preserve their child's Israeli and Austrian heritage.

Trying to use genetic heritage to determine nationality is an unproductive use of one's time. You would be right in saying that the native populations of South Germany and Austria are similar genetically, but native North Germans are more similar genetically to the Dutch, Danish, and Swedish. Perhaps you also argue for those nationalities to identify as German?

I wrote the preceding sentences before checking your comment history (and remembering the neo-Nazi reference of your username). Now that I have, I can see why you would have a problem with non-Caucasians identifying as German and German parents wanting their children to remember their non-German heritage.

This is the first time I've seen "do it for the exposure" in the wild (http://theoatmeal.com/comics/exposure). And you even called the other person disingenuous (albeit in jest). I'm impressed.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't iDreamSky one of China's largest third-party Android app stores?

You could say that each Google Play customer is punching above their weight, but GooglePlay+Amazon+AmazonUnderground+iDreamSky technically means that Android makes up 58% of the customers and only about 1/4 of the revenue compared to iOS.

Aren't public schools supposed to have special education resources? I don't know about other schools but the schools I grew up in had disabled students. They just often weren't in the same classes as the higher-achieving kids. But that's no different from students being in different accelerated, AP, or IB classes.

I agree with the spirit of your comment, but you seem to be contradicting yourself. How can nothing have changed about the school? Schools derive a great deal of their funding from property taxes. You just described a school district dramatically gentrifying and going from 80% low-income to less than 15% low-income. The school now has a dramatically larger budget. They could have completely upgraded the teaching staff. They can now afford better facilities and resources. Even if the teachers are the exact same, they are now literally teaching a completely different student body. That sounds like a school that's changed to me.

That submission is about colleges. This submission is about high schools. The differences in quality between high schools is drastically more varied than differences in quality between colleges.

Ok. All but one then.

MyLifeOrganized has that (look at 'Dependencies' - http://www.mylifeorganized.net/#comparison-table) but I think it's probably too robust (and expensive) for the average person.

What's interesting is that the word "safe" doesn't show up once in the "Zoning" Wikipedia article. However, words like "business interests", "income segregation", and "racial segregation" seem to show up quite a bit.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning#Functional_zoning_-_cat...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning#Criticism_of_zoning_law...

Why? If anything, Snapchat's success shows that they don't need a desktop version. Mobile usage in the U.S. now exceeds desktop usage. I'm having a hard time believing that anyone on the Snapchat team is stressing out about having a desktop version.

Elaborate please? (I'm not as well versed in security as I would like.)

This depends on the structure of control in the companies. Anyone familiar with Facebook and Google knows that Zuckerberg pulled some fantastic manipulation of board seats and Brin and Page created a new class of voting shares that are 10x more powerful than regular shares. In such set-ups, the co-founders have permanent control of their companies without having to hold too many shares.

I imagine that many of the co-founders of the "unicorns" were smart enough to replicate Zuckerberg and Brin/Page and are subservient to no one.

Why couldn't long press do both? Make "wiggle icons" the top app shortcut or something. ("Move icon" would probably be a less silly name.)

You don't see how what you just wrote is drastically more complicated to the average user? Tiny differences in time and pressure determines two different features when pressing an app icon.

A right-click equivalent already existed: a long press.

3D Touch is the long press controlled by finger pressure instead of time pressed. It took an already hard-to-discover feature and made it more nuanced (that is, more complicated).

You think that the average consumer has no videos, games, or music on their phone? (And we forgetting photos and various other types of apps.)

You sound like when data plan providers say "Our average customer doesn't use that much data." Of course they don't. They try to stay within the ridiculous limits providers give them.

iOS 9 alone takes up a few GBs. The only reason the 16 GB option is the base option is because it anchors the price of iPhones. iPhones have an absurdly large profit margin, and price anchoring just provides the average consumer a psychological "out".

If an expensive feature has discoverability problems, it probably doesn't sound awesome from Apple's perspective.

The current CEO of Apple is the former COO, someone well regarded for his prowess in managing Apple's supply chain and determining optimal cost per unit for Apple's products.

If only a small percentage of customers use 3D Touch and 3D Touch adds a substantial cost per unit, I can see why Mr. Cook would disagree with 3D Touch being an awesome addition.

I personally use 3D Touch to open links in new tabs in Safari, but that's only because 3D Touch interferes with the long press gesture.

>more than half a year without salary

Pretty sure a lawyer would be salivating to take this case.

It's not completely a false dichotomy.

A casual Google search says that "happy" == "feeling or showing pleasure or contentment".

The more informed you are, the more problems you will see and the less content you will be with the state of things. Problems aren't particularly conducive to happiness.

That said, ignorance is not necessarily bliss. It is better to be informed and be able to protect oneself from possible problems than it is to continue to pretend everything is fine and fall victim to eventual problems.

It is incredibly easy to see where your anecdote could go wrong. What if you had bought something much more personal or embarrassing?

Condoms? Plan B? Dildos? Lube? Imagine having to explain to a family member sitting next to you why those items are showing up in your Amazon recommendations.

I recall an example a few years ago about a store's marketing system telling a father that his teen daughter was pregnant before she ever told him. Because the store's system had correctly inferred from her previous purchases that she was pregnant and started giving recommendations for stuff like diapers.

Suppose a homosexual in the closet was buying sexually explicit things or an atheist in a religiously strict home or country was buying blasphemous materials.

Ironically, your anecdote presents much worse scenarios than the parent comment's anecdote.

I had to take a long questionaire, a computer program testing focus/reactions, and a comprehensive IQ test before I was diagnosed with severe impairment from ADHD a year ago. In fact, I was originally diagnosed with ADHD after taking a comprehension IQ test to get accepted to kindergarten at a magnet school, but my parents figured it was just a phase and never did anything about it.

It's frustrating to think about the lack of consistency in ADHD diagnosises and treatment. In /r/ADHD (ADHD subreddit), some people get diagnosed after a few minutes of talking with a psych. Others live in countries where ADHD isn't even considered a thing. Many went through the same rounds of tests that I did. Even after diagnosis, I had the same problem as several /r/ADHD members in that the first psychiatrist I went to looked at my psychologist's diagnosis and was like "Meh, you got decent grades in high school anyway. You're just stressed/tired/depressed/etc." Wasted my time with four months on four different depression medications before I got a second opinion.

Am I missing something? In what world does the average young person not use a drop-down menu? Also, doesn't Snapchat require an email to register? Do young people not use iMessage or any other messaging app to send text messages?

Are you making a joke that went over my head?

"the poor school districts get supplemental funds from federal and state governments bringing their total funding on par or higher than richer school districts"

Citation needed.

Just a casual web search for your claim seems to be yielding the opposite conclusion.

My anecdotal experience from moving around a lot (over half a dozen public schools from kindergarten to 12th grade) also contradicts your claim. Competition at richer schools has definitely given me an extra edge. The phrase "competition at poor schools" is also oxymoronic. What competition? Competition in classmates ignoring teachers and fights constantly erupting?

The gulf between poor schools and rich schools is ridiculous. Some schools offer several Advanced Placement courses, several International Baccalaureate courses, and partnerships with multiple nearby colleges for college courses. Students at poorer schools don't even know what AP and IB courses are. You don't know competition until the top 10% of your graduating class are either all going to Ivy League and prestigious colleges or all already have credit for college courses before even applying to college.

And I was just talking about the insane competition from fellow students. School resources and personnel are another matter. State-of-the-art SMART Boards. Laptops. Tablets. Multiple fields for multiple sports. Paid field trips. Study abroad. A robust student exchange program. Multiple year foreign language programs in around half a dozen languages. Teachers with multiple/advanced degrees. Several guidance counselors. Multiple vice/assistant principals. Multiple coaches.

I am genuinely curious what edge you think a poor school gave you.

Yeah, if you're someone who's already spending three days a week at the gym, you probably don't need a Fitbit. Especially in the GP's case where it seems like he may have substituted his gym time with a Fitbit.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting you or you're misinterpreting me, but I feel like I'm arguing against the concept of predicting the future. It's absurd that this is even an argument.

And when I say the top 1% are significantly better at making predictions than the average person, I mean better in certainty and specificity.

Look at yours and spangry's comments. Full of vagueness.

"Appropriate to scream bloody murder".

About what exactly? It's certainly appropriate to scream bloody murder about things that are happening. It would be nonsensical to scream bloody murder about something that isn't happening.

"the economic depression that will occur in the next 5 years will be started by bubbles popping in residential property markets"

What a huge range of uncertainty. So when is this economic depression occurring? Tomorrow? 2017? 2021? What kind of economic depression? Minor? Major? Capable of plunging the world into the Great Depression? Such vague predictions are fundamentally worthless to the average person.

The whole concept of "being good at prediction" is extraordinarily difficult to back up. If you were even a few percentage points better at prediction (especially economic predictions) than the average person, your life is pretty much made. You would literally be better than the average person at seeing into the future. There is a 1% of people (Warren Buffett and James Harris Simons for example) who are significantly better than the average person at predictions, but chances are some random Australian on a tech forum is not part of that 1%.

It's fascinating that you seem to find the "largely middle class white" part racist but not the "largely African American" part racist.

Also, saying the Ferguson protests were about "not paying bills" is like saying Occupy Wall Street was about "skipping work". It smacks of either absolute ignorance or some sort of deliberate agenda.

Are there hardware requirements for encryption? And, if there are, who are these people building web sites on hardware older than 2005?

I would argue that networking services, backend services, and apps are indeed much higher level than the things Apple succeeds at (hardware, industrial design, and operating system).

In fact, Steve Jobs never even wanted third-party apps on the iPhone (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/appsblog/2011/oct/24/s...). So, it's understandable why Apple has struggled with their networking services, backend services, and apps: such concerns weren't even remotely a part of Apple's DNA.

I was just thinking that PIA would be the perfect candidate for a honeypot, especially since it's under USA jurisdiction. Does the "probably" make it sound like I'm making a claim? I can change it if you'd like.

Yeah, GP is right in that you can't trust VPNs (for example, PIA is probably a massive honeypot for all we know.) However, if you're using a VPN outside of the jurisdiction of the "Fourteen Eyes", you've substantially increased the effort required for anyone outside of that VPN to monitor you.