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this doesn't fundamentally answer your question, but as a young person, I've been encouraged to get a credit card to develop good credit, for when I need to utilize it in the future. I would rather use a debit card, but I plan to get a credit card for this reason alone.

It's a bit harder to link to this type of stuff because by definition its been removed, but for example,

this sub has been banned today: https://np.reddit.com/r/paoiskillingreddit

here's a thread regarding a joke removed about two weeks ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/378smw/a_jo...

As a reply to jfuhrman's comment, Reddit has recently updated their rules to include "Keep Everyone Safe: You agree to not intentionally jeopardize the health and safety of others or yourself." (https://www.reddit.com/help/useragreement#section_reddit_rul...)

So, many of the deleted posts could have been deleted by the admins, in theory.

I notice in the article that Coca Cola is an investor. Anyone care to explain why Coca Cola would make such an investment? I assume it's because they're sitting on a bunch of extra cash; but wouldn't it be more efficient to distribute that cash to their shareholders?

If person A and person B commit the same fineable offense, it seems fair to me that the fine should be the same for both people. After all, shouldn't the fine be, in expectation, equivalent to the damage caused by the offense?

To be clear, there's another innovation here that you're not mentioning. The number of restaurants from which I can get food delivered to my doorstep is greatly increasing.

If we're going to critique the value of a service, we might as well include the benefit to consumers.

Do you have a source on the number of U.S. citizens on the no fly list?

I see a report from 2012 which cites 500 Americans, out of a total 21,000 (https://www.aclu.org/national-security/factsheet-aclus-chall...), and a report from 2014 which cites 47,000 total (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/05/watch-commande...), so I would assume the number of U.S. citizens on the no fly list is at least double the figure you list.

Could you elaborate? Which confounding variables?

sure, this might make the most sense for web pages, but for programming, I prefer to view my files in columns, and landscape maximizes the number of columns on the screen.

In a more positive direction, the state can provide those at risk with counseling and other mental health services to try to prevent the predicted scenario.

A similar idea was attempted in Chicago with those on the other side of this: those with high risk of being homicide victims.

An account of a boy in the program here: http://harpers.org/archive/2014/03/chronicle-of-a-death-fore...

Unfortunately the story ends tragically for him, but the idea seems promising.

Pen and paper requires manual subtraction: time finished - time started. An easier UI would be a button to press at start and at finish; the subtraction being done automatically.

It seems to me, that much personal information should be transmitted over a secure connection.

The part about salting confuses me. Shouldn't salting remain effective against rainbow tables even when the salting mechanism is known?

I just did the same ping from Stanford to Mit:

90.340 ms

It's interesting to me that the latency has not improved since 1996. I guess it's probably hard to maintain (let alone improve) latency as network complexity greatly increases.

It gives the full name associated with an email address. A more dramatic but analogous situation would be if an attacker were able to attain password info or credit card info associated with an email address.

Just because email address is known does not imply that other personal information should be given away.

What is wrong with a fixed header?

Isn't it more convenient than scrolling back to the top of the page to access important links?

The only possible issue I can think of is if screen space is limited.

You mention pause+rewind as a killer feature. Another nice feature is the ability to watch at a faster or slower pace (I usually watch 1.5x). These conveniences have made it such that I strongly prefer watching taped lecture to physically attending class. Add to that the fact that you can almost always get a faster response from posting in an online forum (often Piazza for my Stanford CS classes) than attending overcrowded and understaffed office hours. Most of my education has already moved online.

Even if online class doesn't make professors extinct, I think it will certainly make physical class time a thing of the past.

Doesn't negate your point, but I checked out of curiosity, and at least with American Airlines, it is easy to buy an airline ticket with cash. http://www.aa.com/i18n/reservations/paymentOptions/cashPayme...

I would argue that the desire to censor is the result of its effectiveness in maintaining existing power structures.

transcript of the daily news briefing: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/19/transcript-white-ho...

"The most common form of request comes from police investigating robberies and other crimes, searching for missing children, trying to locate a patient with Alzheimer’s disease, or hoping to prevent a suicide."

Such a broad range of things included in 'the most common form of request' really reduces the power of the statement.