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But is it really critical to make chores feel fun for the kids?

By definition, chores are routine tasks, and it's natural for kids and adults to feel them as "not fun". I believe it's important to make kids realize that for the household to run successfully, we have to do them despite them being "not fun".

How is blocking all calls even remotely legal?

Can you explain how that sandboxing would work? Can the malicious app not just transcode/encrypt email, and transmit it back to their server? How would that be detected?

Also, depending on the email client and its purpose, siphoning the email to the server might as well be a valid use case. e.g., I can think of an app which manages my email by smartly figuring out which email is important and/or urgent. For the app to achieve this, having access to the email body is critical and a valid use case.

What prevents the manufacturer from rebranding themselves and listing their products again on Amazon? I really hope Amazon takes some proactive steps here, otherwise, people would lose trust in Amazon products and ratings.

> As such, they are not helping society to become post-racial - as must be our goal

Can you explain what's your definition of "post-racial"? I have seen it defined at least 2 ways: (1) Past the period the anti-racism laws were enacted (2) The period when the effects of racism are over. There are many ways to measure it. One possible way is to check if races that were victims of racism have proportional representation in jobs.

With time, I have come to realize that giving to charity is not a good measure of goodness. In statistical terms, it would be if the data was not biased. However, that's not true.

A lot of religious institutions tell followers that charity is required by God, and doing charity would make them more liked by God (and hence you will get a better treatment in after-life). This makes it very difficult to compare the data across the two groups.

This seems pretty outrageous. Do you have any source for this?

> especially when that company avoids human support.

If I understand correctly, that's not true for paid gsuite customers.

I think the post that you linked to describes a much simpler case: One Google account violated the policies and could land Google in bad water (privacy laws around children as well as COPPA), so they blocked access to that specific account. It can be argued that it is reasonable. It can also be argued that Google should put more engineering effort in collecting less information especially when account holder is minor.

However, blocking access of other co-workers as well as blocking access to personal accounts (which are simply set as recovery accounts, and could as well be accounts of spouses/partners) because of some other account holder's mistake is completely different. So, I would argue that the incident described in Reddit is indeed the first case.

Wait, are we sure that this really happened? Seems very unlikely, and even the OP did not present any evidence. I would be really surprised if Google would be scanning emails, and using that to ban the gsuite account of the entire company.

A red flag for me is the claim that Google also blocked accounts that were set for recovery which seems almost close to impossible (or insane).

Also, the measurement involves reloading the same page infinite number of times which is really not even remotely represents how users probably use Reddit.

May be the new design is preloading content to make the subsequent clicks faster? May be the new design enables usage of HTTP resources with better cache lifetimes?

> Don't use web technologies to implement it. Make a native app.

> Javascript is a cancer that has lead to a slow, bloatware-, spyware-, and malware-infested web. Getting rid of it should be a priority.

That may or may not be correct from developer's point of view. I am not sure and I am not going to argue that.

However, how about user's point of view. A lot of users (including me!) prefer not to install native apps but use Web apps especially when achieving one-time tasks. Do you have any thoughts/data on what users prefer?

> If you're an employee and/or a student then everything you do should be reported to the government, taxes should have automatically been withheld, and the government should be able to figure out everything on their own.

In such cases, isn't it already super straightforward to file taxes? Just copy-paste information from W2 to 1040ez, and you are done?

There are lot of things that government does not know e.g., how much I donated to Goodwill or other charities, or if I have multiple homes with mortgages , then which one is my primary residence.

We can argue that the tax code should be simpler but that's a different argument.

> With the pre-Google system, at least Mark gets his foot in the door and has a chance to impress the prospective employer during the interview process.

Would the companies start asking in their screening process "Have you been committed of crime before" and that would wash out all the benefits of censoring Google?

> While for now the positioning of autopilot is to increase safety for non attentive drivers, eventually autopilot's main goal is to have completely self driven cars and that is where the industry is heading (and Tesla wants to be in the forefronts of it).

In that case they should issue a recall, and not use real users as their test drivers. Once they get to their eventual goal, they can resume selling autopilot cars.

> We can differ in opinions but I strongly feel that the eventual utopia of self driving cars will be much safer than the current world. And we are making progress on this daily. There will be few unfortunate incidents but in the long term a lot more lives will be saved.

I totally agree with you that in the long term self-driving cars are much safer. What I do not agree with is Tesla's approach towards achieving that goal. They are selling an unsafe product while marketing it as much safer than the existing products. This is just plain fraud.

Sorry, comparison with airplanes is not fair in my opinion.

The purpose of the autopilot is to increase safety for drivers that are not attentive. However, it turns out that Tesla requires drivers to be even more attentive than regular vehicles. This is not a sign of progression.

> Tesla's system demands more from drivers than manual driving.

This is a great point. With regular cars, drivers can reliably predict where the car will be after 5 seconds. However, with Tesla, there is really no way to know what the auto-driver will do, and so the driver has to stay even more attentive to ensure that it does not do something wrong. It's like driving a car that is not under your control, and may go in random directions.

> "...but her beef with Youtube is entirely justified."

I am curious as to how we concluded that? Until now, we have only heard her side of the story, and not that of YouTube. May be she was violating ToS? There could be thousands of well-justified reasons for YouTube to terminate her account.

Without hearing the other side of the story, how do we know that her beef was entirely justified?

And, of course, there is the usual argument that YouTube is a platform owned by a private entity. Nobody has a justifiable right to put their video on YouTube and earn revenue from it.

That's because Uber never released an official statement on the accident. At least, I can't find one on their website.

Why no gzip/brotli the content? Does it not help because html is small?

Does anybody know if there were any safety inspections of the park by the city, state or federal bodies? If so, how did it pass the inspections?

> It proves what the ad company Google itself could have done had they not been an ad company.

I think you make fair points, but I think this does not prove anything. CopperheadOS has a different user base than Android. A permission model that CopperheadOS users understand (e.g., CopperheadOS users are likely to be more technical) may not work for Android user base.

> We have some corners where old houses are even intruding a bit on the road. When passing these corners you will have to slow down so you can stop in case a child runs out behind the corner. You can't just blame the victim if you are in control of your own speed.

Yes, but this is a 4-lane roadway. I can totally imagine driving cautiously and slowing down near residential areas where houses are close to the road. However, this seems like a different case.

> whole « narrative « of the experiment is in serious jeopardy.

Not really. Self driving cars are supposed to be better than average human driver. That does not imply that they NEVER make mistakes.

I do not know specifics of this case, but a general comment: If somebody is hiding behind a bush, and (deliberately or by mistake) run in front of the car, there is no way the car can anticipate that. There is no way to avoid accidents in 100% of the cases.

But is that really comparable? Wikipedia is compiled by volunteers, but Google search algorithm or results are not. If Wikipedia was really a paid service, it very likely would not have access to so many unpaid volunteers.

May be I am missing something about the American culture...What's wrong with having Linuxfest next to cheerleading competition?

Mr. Money Mustache reported $7 per hour earnings after taking off the car costs (https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/11/22/mr-money-mustache...).

> They do not solve any problem I as a user have.

That's a pretty broad statement. As a user, I hate installing apps. They take up disk space, and then I need to remember to remove them if I am not using it.

Also as a user, I am not sure how much additional security holes are created by installing a third-party binary. With a webapp, there is only a single source of security issues (browser).

Are the stillborns counted when computing the average life expectancy?