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seatonist··on Cobalt Robotics Raises $13M from Sequoia for Indoor Security Robots
Gosh, does it ever look like a Dalek!
seatonist··on Introducing Airbnb Plus
Many Airbnbs I've stayed in will just have a key under a house plant or doormat. The key can be a little tricky to find that way but for a lower cost listing it's totally fine (by me).

I suspect that's the sort of practice they're trying to parse out for this Plus offering.

seatonist··on Your company can increase voter turnout: make Election Day a company holiday
While I agree with you on many of these, [most] politics is about incremental change, and it is messy. The perfect cannot be the enemy of the good here. This website and project is a terrific idea.
seatonist··on Founders, tech and charity
FYI: I live in D.C., my list reflects that.
seatonist··on Keeping your account protected
Shared as an example of the right way to talk about a security threat.
seatonist··on A Doctor Trying to Stop Heart Attacks
Here's a slide deck with data about the results of the trial (of Glucose Insulin Potassium) mentioned in the article.

http://clinicaltrialresults.org/Slides/ACC2012/Selker_IMMEDI...

From the conclusions slide:

"Composite endpoint of cardiac arrest or acute mortality was significantly reduced, and FFA levels were lower, consistent with the proposed FFA link to arrhythmias"

seatonist··on [dead]
..."an artificial neural network for machine vision (whatever that is)"...

It's hard to take seriously an article that so unabashedly flaunts its own ignorance. Especially when the answer to this rhetorical question could be found with a five second Google search.

There are legitimate arguments to be had about Google's current strategy. But this piece is not part of them! He doesn't even really seem to assess any of the allegedly ill advised Google projects he lists...instead he makes fun of the names.

seatonist··on Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers
It's important to know one's rights, but I think that's by no means the best we can do. For starters, we can support organizations like the Equal Justice Initiative (http://www.eji.org) or the author of TFA's org, Equal Justice Under Law (http://equaljusticeunderlaw.org) that are working to both defend indigent defendants and fundamentally reform the criminal justice system.

Beyond that, I think that there is a lot of opportunity to advocate around these issues on the state and local level right now. Whatever you think of bodycams for police, you have to admit that in light of recent events they're going to become dramaticaly more common. That's just one example of how a crisis can provide a great opportunity for advocacy, and ultimately change. That's not to say that we will be able to make fundamental change quickly on this very difficult issue. But it is to say that there are paths forward, and I would invite people who care to dive in.

seatonist··on Death for stealing candles
"Prov'd" is just a contraction of "proved". It was common at that time. This might have a familiar ring...

  If this be error, and upon me prov'd,
  I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
(It's from Shakespeare's famous sonnet that begins "Let me not to the marriage of true minds / admit impediments".)

Beyond that, "prove", "proof", "proven", etc are all from the latin provare - to try, or test.

seatonist··on NVMe, the fast future for SSDs
I can remember putting ISA "hardcards" in my 286s and similar. Full circle!
seatonist··on I put a GPS tracker on my boyfriend's mother's cat
Because it's neat to see how the cat moves about! Why is it a problem if it's "inexpensive" and "commercially available"?
seatonist··on PullClean: Door handles as sanitizers
Despite actually watching the video and reading the site, I was still kind of visualizing a push door when I wrote this (whoops!) but I have definitely hooked my elbow or shoulder into the right sort of pull doors if I'm carrying a bunch of equipment, or bags, or something. Or, more likely, I'll brace the equipment against the door and grab with a hand, then keep it open with a foot. Raises the same issues with the dispenser.

In any case, I still think there is risk having this ambiguous button like thing, both from passersby bumping it and from normal use. And, as my comment (and the immortal Far Side comic) illustrates, many pull doors and push doors look confusingly similar, so people will push the pull handles.

Also, may I suggest making your correction in a friendlier way next time? Especially because it is possible that the person you're correcting may not be the total doofus you imagine them to be!

seatonist··on PullClean: Door handles as sanitizers
Is it just me, or is this a recipe for slippery sanitizer-covered floors after people bump into these handles and trigger the pump? (Whether deliberately, by opening the door with their backs with hands full, or inadvertently just walking around in a crowded corridor.)
seatonist··on Decoupled from IP, TCP is at last able to support multihomed hosts
FWIW, if anyone is looking for a dead simple bonding tool, I'd suggest Connectify Switchboard: http://www.connectify.me/switchboard/

I'm using it to bond two 4G interfaces (Verizon + Clearwire) on the train at this very moment. Need to remember to bring a USB wifi adapter next time so I can add the Amtrak wifi to the mix!

edit: No linux support though. :/