368 karma · joined July 8, 2015
The moment a digital file exists, your competing price point is free. People can still pirate, and don't because of youtube and streaming sites. You don't have to think that's right or fair (I don't), but it's absolutely the reality.
More likely to be convicted of a crime. That's a subtle but very important distinction.
- I'd much rather be in-person, where I can better gauge what others are communicating and more readily have two-way communication about the material.
- I'm way less focused when on my own computer, on my own time.
- I find I communicate way less purely online than I would in-person.
- Automatic grading sucks, especially for programming, as it can only really test inputs and outputs, and misses a ton of nuance. I want to also know if my code sucks, regardless of it producing the correct output or not.
...how were they to know to capture data from those specific people before being asked?
There's no way to satisfy requests for historical data without capturing data from everyone.
A company violates their agreement with you in a way that costs you time, money, and potentially business, and you're not the victim?
"Twitter has even begun censoring political speech from public figures"
vs
"The FBI will require Twitter to censor political speech from public figures"
I think those two scenarios are eons apart.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28539144
There are already plenty of airplanes that have the ability to land themselves under specific conditions. There's no whole-new technology here. Even if it was brand new, I'm not sure how that would be less safe.