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Irony? Filing taxes is a government-imposed obligation for many Americans. Accessing content from a private company is neither an obligation nor a right.

This goes beyond just breaking the law. This endangers others' lives.

So where has your focus been when it has needed to snap back in?

So the benefit is strictly in slow-moving traffic?

And it's never occurred to me that steering wheel torque is an issue. And so many of these processes -- lane centering, not bumping into the car ahead of me -- are subconscious for me at this point, but I've been driving for decades.

May I ask how good is the technology that notices when someone is distracted and forces them to attend to the road?

I'm still unclear as to the benefit given that you're required to attend to the road and it detects distracted people in the driver's seat?

But if you still need to keep your attention on the road, what is the actual gain?

What else can you be doing that gets past the distraction detection?

You got the core facts wrong -- Tesla will, in fact, continue to patent their technology. They need to to protect themselves from others.

What Musk did say is, "Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology."

Furthermore he said, "We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla’s position in this regard."

And given that this was posted 3.5 years ago, how about "announced" rather than "announces"?

Apple has figured out a way to allow us to track the NSA now?

Well there was evidence -- a vehicle that was registered to him was photographed as it was involved in a civil infraction. It wasn't conclusive evidence, much less proof. But it was evidence.

And although I'm not a lawyer, my understanding is that probable cause is a relatively low standard to meet, much lower than preponderance of the evidence and certainly much lower than beyond reasonable doubt.

Ask yourself this -- if a witness saw a car (and noted its license plate) parked in a house's driveway during the time when a burglary was likely to have taken place, and the car was unknown to those who lived at that address, would a judge sign a search warrant on that vehicle and the registrant's address based on probable cause?

I was not claiming the NYTimes is a commons. Rather I was using the commons as an example of a) how one's short- and long-term interests are not always aligned, and b) how mechanisms that curtail one's own short-term interests can benefit one's long-term interests.

You haven't demonstrated convincingly that she is wrong. At best you've explained why ad blockers don't serve the short-term interests of those who consume the NYTimes. Your mistake is that you extrapolate that the short-term interests of consumers are aligned with their long-term interests.

I suggest you read Garrett Hardin's writings about The Tragedy of the Commons, so you can see how one's short-term and long-term interests are not always aligned and that finding mechanisms to curtail one's own and others' short-term interests might be in most's long-term interests. You might also be interested in Elinor Ostram's work on managing the commons, for which she won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

(Of course examples of short- and long-term interests not being aligned abound -- high tobacco use, high alcohol use, high-cholesterol diets, etc.)

I think the key question is whether NYTimes' readers' long-term interests are closely aligned with the NYTimes' long-term interests. I suspect they are (disclosure: I pay monthly for online access). Many of us believe the NYTimes produces quality content, primarily news reporting, that's expensive to produce. And we realize if we want to have long-term access to it, the NYTimes needs to generate income by various means, which can include subscriptions and advertising.

Furthermore, your use of the term "customer" for those who neither subscribe nor view the ads is problematic and defies the common definition of "customer".

I wish they wouldn't have curved/smoothed the graphs. Since it's by year, there are discrete points and values. When you curve a line it has implications for the underlying data, which in this case are incorrect.

I have never heard him referred to as "Steve Woz". Steve Wozniak, sure. Woz, yes. Or even "the Woz".

I'm not sure what Github's stated policy was, but it's clear from Julie Ann Horvath's description of how things operated there that quite a few of her co-workers were far from being fully-formed adults.

Nikoli has a lot of interesting puzzles.

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That idea is just plain silly. And who exactly advocates it? It's just a plain, silly straw man.

Well, I find Dad Meyer's talk to be helpful in thinking about math school education: https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover .

'I don't know any evidence, that teaching the "mechanistics" of math should lower the chance of understanding it.' I think that's a bit of a straw man.

The challenge is that simply getting the right answer, especially in terms of arithmetic (one small piece of math), can mask how well a student understands the underlying concepts and whether s/he can flexibly apply the concepts.

Here's a great video on that topic:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ofQ_WnQiZ4

And here's a great video that shows what a participatory classroom with a great teacher can achieve:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlvKWEvKSi8

I predict the average value of fair dice thrown into the future will be 3.5.

I predict the next value thrown by a given fair die is _____.

Sometimes aggregate predictions are easier than fine-grained ones.

Some people maliciously or accidentally provide another's email address, and now that person is getting your unsolicited commercial email (i.e., spam). And now they must actively do something to try to get off the list.

Double opt-in means by doing nothing they will only receive your original confirmation email.

It's not a matter of being crazy. It's a matter of being considerate.

Well mine is 4097 bits. Checkmate, Sir.

The work of Roy Baumeister shows many of these interactions. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Baumeister#Self_regulation

Did the fact that MikeRoweSoft.com sounds like Microsoft.com have any bearing on your decision to register the former?

With exceptions you can: a) handle the exceptions higher up the call stack b) consolidate error handling code for multiple error generation points

With Go you pretty much have to attach a conditional to many calls.

Your obsession with clean revision histories is another matter.

You BUY PUT options -- you buy the right to sale at a given price for some period of time. The most you can lose is what you paid out for the put option. If the price of the underlying commodity falls below the strike price, you essentially get the difference -- you buy at the new lower price and sell at the higher price.

It's important to realize that if AT&T had been able to buy up T-Mobile, this never would have happened.

Useful disruptions are less likely when we have too few companies in a given market.

Note: OfficeMax and Office Depot are trying to merge.

The original story was submitted by nomoremongo, not nmongo. The original story was very detailed and identified known problems with MongoDB. This post is a one-liner.

So prove you were the one who wrote the account in pastebin.