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'Desire to offload more processing to end user machines to save compute' strikes me as a real possibility

I suppose they do that so you know what using a Mac is like when you develop for it. Macs are, in my experience, different than other machines.

Fencepost error– great visual, thanks

I have heard people complain that building a house is N times more difficult today than 20 years ago, and as someone who wishes to build a house in the future, these complaints worry me. Perhaps there is no need for worry over second hand mutterings, though. I will see what the situation is like when I actually start building.

It seems that usually the legal burden of compliance and regulation forms an efficient service sector that is able to meet it– but in a sort of roundabout way I question the very need for this compliance sector. Thank God for fire safety and non-toxic building materials, but some law is absurd, and represents a process for process' sake when you look at its effect.

How can government give folks a purpose? I always assumed that in our strange age purpose is up to the individual, but now I am curious how a nation-state could foster `a purpose-driven life`.

It's encouraging to hear about good use of all the free time we have, so thank you.

The negative extremes are, well, extreme. I am not a parent myself, yet, but I think you'd be surprised how great the incentive truly is. If we had a tidy causal analysis of what drives people the world over, I suspect parental instincts would make up a visible chunk of motivations.

My understanding is the cost of construction has risen dramatically in recent decades, in proportion to an explosion of construction regulation.

I wonder what you think about the necessity of the health insurance industry? Seeing as how apparently it began as a sort of subscription service to keep hospitals afloat when beds were empty... It is a lot to wrap my mind around, but I have the general feeling that insurance drives the prices of health care way up and we would be better if we could all pay out of pocket for most things, but be covered by a true 'risk mitigation' insurance solution that would kick in when indeed we got cancer, or got in a car accident or the like.

I assume you meant ‘learning curve’ but learning curse is hilarious here in the context of PowerPoint.

It is just a matter of time. Right now, we’re in the thick of things and as pointed out by others, the problem domain is very complex. As we move forward, though, our solutions will become simpler and our container tools will work more elegantly.

Today is my off day. On my off days, when I catch myself feeling guilty for not getting stuff done, I remind myself it’s my off day, and my job is to rest. This, I think, makes the other days a little easier.

And all of these 'upsides' will occur regardless in a few years. Why hasten economic benefit at the cost of human life? Economic benefit is only of benefit to human being so it's not an arguable equation.

You could always go the 'dummies' route

Ditto. The design in the article is a stellar look!

I don’t see the effect this piece aimed to solve as a bad thing. It’s effectively the Pareto principle and it is found in so many places.

Mr. Dot as in the php stir concatenation operator?

I went to a magic leap developer event and tried the headset first hand. It was truly magical. It made me giggle. Now, at the current price point it’s too high for me to buy as a toy and I haven’t really been struck with any killer app ideas to buy it as a dev kit, but I really think it’s an extremely cool piece of kit.

I read it in the list, at first, as bitcoin, and had to do a double take.

The title of this post is misleading. Perhaps better would be Sites are using Audio Stack fingerprinting to track users.