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If we consider using the services of a prostitute as emotional violence - which is a reasonable case considering the mental health risks of the profession - and as violence towards weaker people - we should disallow it on a similar basis to minimum wage laws.

True - demand increases - prices rise.

But than new factories should open and prices would return to normal.

> and for whatever reason wanted to hobble it with the same restrictions as Airplay

They want to work with the big content companies. The end game might be ads on the chromecast served through Google with the stick is access to chromecast and the carrot is ad-optimization by Google and maybe blocking pirated content.

It all depends on what are the powers your attackers have. If your attackers can monitor the whole web, inject packets as he wish and control every computer in the world - there probably isn't any way to offer secrecy.

On the other hand, if we're talking about an adversary with a more limited capabilities - maybe he can access only 50% of the computers in the world and that cannot crack encryption at will - Than there are papers talking about theoretically sound systems that can give you anonymity with very high reliability.

You're right. My knowledge is about the Buddhist traditions.

The kind of situation(of identity loss and connectedness to nature ,etc) is kind of a goal in eastern meditation traditions. But another goal is creating compassionate people who care about others while carrying that identity-less feeling with them. And true, one risk is that one would be happy with himself and isolate himself. But those traditions know and try to manage those risks.

And i don't think this loss of self comes from self introspection, but more from long solitude(which tends to break the psych construct we call ego).

And no wonder he like solitude so strongly - he didn't find happiness among humans before. Hopefully after he get released , he can find some way to make a living while having the ability to live mostly alone and in nature.

Yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkuO-8hfGhM

UBER is reducing prices through both unfair and fair(ride sharing fr ex.) means.

Valuations are about the best possible future. In that future , nobody uses a car but uses UBER to order a personal or a shared car(automated or manual). 17 Billion is nothing for that.

I don't know. Could it be that rich angels are already investing small amounts of money into crazy tech startups ,but nobody hears about that ?

What does YC bring to tech heavy startups except connections to funding ? because most of the risk there is technology risk , not market risk, and YC is no tech expert at those subjects.

In general Apportable sounds great. But in reality - we see little results, relatively. Lots of IOS only apps, still. None of the big guys, who would surely be interested in offering devices/app-stores with full access to ios apps have bought you.

So i wonder: why is that gap between the marketing and reality ? and maybe an emulator will close that gap ?

This list replaces a centralized list. Maybe with the magic of git this will work better. Or maybe we need better community building and connection around such list.

But since such a knowledge source is highly useful for people, and very valuable and people could get lots of credit for helping(in theory), i could see something like this built up.

On the other hand comparing just the current list(5 days of operation) , with the best openhub or github search could offer for the queries "python cryptography" and "python xml", i don't think analytics alone should do. But sure analytics can(and are through Google/Github) being used to guide curators.

> but in practise virtually everyone uses the dynamic typing only.

Why ? is it a social thing? or a technical thing?

I agree that Google should add more languages to android. And while Scala is a great language, it's very complex - so it won't benefit many of the less skilled users.

A better language would be something with the simplicity and power of python, but with good performance.Groovy could be one such language.

Personally i think human curation is much better than curation by activity analytics, and it can offer better context.

Maybe the way to judge curation is by comparing curation+search to search alone. With good curation effort, i think that curation+search is a winner , at a relatively minor cost(needing more time).

Also curation has the benefit of being a useful discovery tool.

>the mysterious absence of Down's Syndrome children in many places these days.

could you please expand ?

I have great appreciation for russian technology, but aren't those exaggeration ?

If setun , the ternary computer was so efficient - how is ithat today we use binary machines(and that in general the russians didn't have a moore's law ) ?

Elizabeth Green , in her book[1] claims that this whole debate regarding teacher evaluation, free markets VS teacher autonomy is wrong. The answer lies in better teacher training. [2] Is an interesting article about that, which shows what can be done and how does it work when you offer better teacher training.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Building-Better-Teacher-Teaching-Every...

[2]http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html...

There are some cases when encouraging shorter messages is very beneficial.

V-nand is probably not a solution to scaling flash , according to memory experts :

http://thememoryguy.com/comparing-samsung-v-nand-to-micron-1...

If it's running on AWS , isn't it possible to just develop your whole system in AWS and gain the efficiencies?

BTW ersatz has recently started to offer a deep learning cloud service, which it claims is very easy to use. Has anybody used it ? how is it ?

The doll concept sounds awfully close to either tor or anonymous remailers(which are much more private). But anonymous remailers had much trouble with authorities so i wonder how that will work.

for life like communication ,there's high quality telepresence that includes eye contact . does it lose the emotional element? how? and is it possible to add that element, by virtual reality ?

I wonder: were past disruptive efforts more sucsessfull in unseating incumbents ? And is Clayton Christensen theory responsible for bigger companies' better defense against disruption ?

As far as i know, good parent-infant attachment is critical in shaping stable adults with good emotional regulation(because in this attachment process the baby learns how to regulate his own emotions) , and that emotional regulation is critical in good delay gratification(i.e. passing the marshmallow test).

We also know that stress while a mother is pregnant affects the epi-genes of an unborn kid, making him more susceptible to stress - which again delay gratification harder.

We also know from research that depression has a direct impact on negative attachment between mother and baby. We also know that poverty tend to increase depression and stress a great deal - it's just common sense.

In the same vane, we know quite a lot of other things on how to greatly increase the likelihood of creating mentally stable persons who have good delay gratification. Psychologists haven't been resting all these years, you know.

In the same spirit , Christensen talks about incumbents improving their performance more than customers care about. It doesn't seem to describe the voice recognition industry ,at all. I'm not sure even today's voice recognition systems can be considered "good enough".

For a technical article about the architecture , see :

http://www.research.ibm.com/software/IBMResearch/multimedia/...