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Depends on what you mean by efficiency. Building a widget faster means nothing if there's no buyers.

You can kind of achieve this in the U.S., at least in my school district, through AP classes or taking equivalent classes at the local junior college to satisfy high school credits. The structure of the school day was still exactly the same, but it allowed you to knock out two years of undergrad in high school.

I wonder how early my 2-month-old niece will be able to achieve a high school education. Not that the resources weren't always available, but it's just so accessible now through efforts like Khan (mostly Khan). We could easily have kids work their way through a high school curriculum in half the time, or maybe give them more time for socialization and interesting projects during the traditional school day.

It's extremely obvious that it is.

The smartest kids I knew were those with very intellectual, but hands off, parents.

I always thought it was misguided to advice parents to demand homework be done at a certain time or enforce certain metrics (test scores, volunteer hours, etc), rather than just having intelligent conversations about, well, anything!

Did HN react to the Kinect or Kinect 2 this way? It seems like there's a lot of burden put on Google to not do stuff that could be creepy even though that's all they do.

What's the disconnect between Google's value and the information they gather. Obviously that's intentional most of the time, but it doesn't seem like a bad deal to me.

The first thing I imagined is a wearable with a clicker for the blind. You say navigate me to ___, and the clicker gives you hot and cold signals (lots of feedback vs. less) as well as maybe a buzzing feedback if you're approaching a hazard.

"Plus I find the Bay Area congested, racist, incestuous, and overpriced."

I like this guy.

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Interesting given these statements:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Apple-Google-Smartphone-Ste...

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Elon-Musk-says-Android-apps-c...

I wonder if Musk made these statements to coerce Apple into a better deal?

Hangouts is also a messaging app that is meant to replace texts.

I'm saying this isn't needed and serious innovation. It's a popularity and standards game. We definitely didn't use carrier pigeons before Whatsapp. IM clients have been ubiquitous for years.

So should facebook absorb every social threat? What would happen if Google's hangouts started to become popular, or another startup?

This is pretty hilarious. It's as if he knew what would happen.

Social isn't serious. It really shouldn't be.

Except for any promise of privacy.

The bubble spreads across all tech startups. Before it was whether your product could be viral enough to match snapchat's $1 billion, now it's whatsapp's $16 billion.

This creates a very unhealthy attitude around tech startups that will have a cascading effect on the entire industry. It's like a hegemonic military policy. The strategy doesn't matter, as long as you have a big stick.

Before this people were comparing their value to snapchat's. This is a very unhealthy market that they're creating.

Or facebook is trying to trivialize and destroy the startup market.

I'm convinced that Facebook is just investing in the market for ridiculously high purchases, artificially inflating the market.

They both seem ridiculous.

You live in Philadelphia, don't you?

The mythologizing of the random crap that happens in the game is the best part. I like how opposing cults are being built around different items/characters in the game. It's more interesting than the fact that things actually get accomplished with the seemingly random actions.

Basic income will likely be the answer.

Sounds like something that could be easily automated.

It's not random, just needlessly obfuscated.

Basic income wouldn't take work away. It would assure that not working when there isn't work to do wouldn't leave people impoverished or lead to an economic collapse.

It would allow people to participate in the economy and pursue productivity or creative pursuits without worrying about starving.

I doubt it's coming, but I don't see its downside in a world where per capita productivity is trivial.

This was made clear in the video.

You just completely ignored the point he was trying to make with the fake likes. You're going to have to come up with a better bullshit defense.