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shaggerty··on Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling
Were you homeschooled before the age of 12?
shaggerty··on OK Soda
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone is reviving it, I’ve seen it mentioned a few places recently.
shaggerty··on Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Psychedelic Research
The process you’re describing is called recuperation[1] and I believe your skepticism is well-founded. The effects of these drugs on the human mind and culture is more powerful than any other drug in history. The effects may not be immediate but I believe they will be more dramatic than any other pharmaceutical society has experienced so far.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

shaggerty··on On me, and the Media Lab
I never accused you of defending Epstein, I was responding to the second paragraph of your comment.

You seemed to be arguing there that we shouldn’t make negative judgments of those who choose to be friends with others who have committed “extreme wrong” which I assume includes crimes like those committed by Epstein.

That is specifically what I take issue with, and I stand by my assertion that any defense of that position in the context of pedophila constitutes pedophilic apologetics.

The mandate to “love thy neighbor as yourself” does not require Christians to refrain from making negative moral judgements of others based on who they choose to associate with.

shaggerty··on On me, and the Media Lab
I find your apologetics for those who associate with known pedophiles deeply disturbing.

Pedophiles require a network of enablers to operate, much more so for high-profile cases like Epstein. If someone you know chooses to associate with a known pedophile, you should cut all ties with them. If you don’t, then you are potentially complicit in the crime insofar as you could potentially provide assistance to someone who is enabling a known pedophile.

This is why anyone with a functioning moral system will negatively judge associates of known pedophiles. I’m not sure why this needs to be spelled out for you.

shaggerty··on U.S. is behind on 5G rules and deployment
I’m not sure if it’s accurate but I’ve heard that 5g (or at least some form of next generation physical infrastructure) will be required for the transition to autonomous vehicles. I think you’re right about media consumption however, I don’t see how most users could justify upgrading to a 5g mobile plan.
shaggerty··on We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
The average age of a software startup founder is 40 [1].

[1] https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...

shaggerty··on U.S. Supreme Court to hear Apple App Store antitrust dispute
How is it a problem for consumers if you can get a cheaper subscription to Spotify by buying it off the App Store?
shaggerty··on Mac mini Late 2018 Teardown
Yes, if the soldered-on SSD has failed you can boot from an external drive by holding down the alt/option key while the system powers on to bring up the boot selection menu.
shaggerty··on The Coders of Kentucky
Do you mind sharing the name of the out-of-state bootcamp? I've been researching programs to apply to.
shaggerty··on Top geneticist loses 3.5M grant in first test of landmark bullying policy
The article links to another article discussing Wellcome's policy.

"The policy defines bullying as a misuse of power that can make people feel vulnerable, upset, humiliated, undermined or threatened. It says harassment is unwanted physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct that has the purpose or effect of violating someone else’s dignity, or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them."

shaggerty··on Half of all adults in the world have less than $2,300 in wealth (2016)
Even if your house ends up being less than you bought it for you still have a house. Assuming you want to live in the same area long term it seems wiser to finish a mortgage and be left with a house that's worth less than you paid for it versus paying rent for the same amount of time and ending up with nothing.
shaggerty··on Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad blockers on app store
The latter is WKWebView https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkwebview
shaggerty··on First LED cinema screen in the U.S.A. officially opened
All three of them do! I'm not sure how it slipped my mind. Thankfully, Cunningham's Law [1].

[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law

shaggerty··on First LED cinema screen in the U.S.A. officially opened
The only Apple device with an OLED screen is the iPhone X; the built-in displays on the 2012-2015 retina MacBook Pros as well as the ones made after the 2016 redesign are IPS with a 60hz refresh rate. There were issues with the graphics on the mid 2012 to early 2013 retina MacBook Pros - perhaps the parent got one of the defective models.
shaggerty··on The reason Facebook won’t ever change
I don't think we will see another Facebook-scale social media service until the shift to AR wearables. However, at that point I think Facebook's disruption will be almost inevitable.
shaggerty··on Steve Yegge Quits, Saying Google Is 100% Competitor Focused
Apple is rumored to be launching an AR product line in 2019.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16622802/apple-ar-headset...

shaggerty··on MacOS High Sierra
OpenOffice stopped being supported in 2011. Most distros use LibreOffice.
shaggerty··on Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Prison After Two Years
The article says that there are hashes of known child pornography content on the drive.
shaggerty··on Increased acidity found in schizophrenia and bipolar patients’ brains
I've never heard someone refer to a schizophrenic as "a schizoid". Schizophrenia and schizoid personality disorder are distinct disorders with different symptoms.
shaggerty··on Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai
Its intetesting how in the last couple years bigot has been redefined from "someone who is not tolerant of the opinions of others" to "anyone who disagrees with leftist moral thought"
shaggerty··on IT is the cause of rising income and wealth inequality since the 1970s [pdf]
They had telegraph systems.
shaggerty··on Uber Posts $708M Loss as Finance Head Leaves
I wouldn't doubt it, Uber comes preinstalled on most android phones.
shaggerty··on The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure
I think he means electric single driver cars.
shaggerty··on People Who Train Robots to Do Their Own Jobs
This can't happen unless the system makes a lot of assumptions about how to impliment the idea, which will ultimately result a in suboptimal implementation.
shaggerty··on People Who Train Robots to Do Their Own Jobs
I disagree. Programming is the act of interacting with AI (the compiler) in language (code) detailed enough to specify what we want it to build for us. As tasks become abstracted to a single click or line of code, the programmer is free to work at higher levels of abstraction.
shaggerty··on The Grim Biology of Being Poor
Where I live $2 a day will get you a hand of bananas and a couple ears of corn, which doesn't seem like it'd be enough to subsist on. What would your grocery list for a weeks worth of food on a $14 budget look like?
shaggerty··on Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
The potential silver lining is that this resuls in FOSS operating systems getting more users, which in turn will mean even better support/stability in FOSS options.
shaggerty··on Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones
You can play YouTube audio in the background and with the phone locked if you use Firefox.
shaggerty··on Lost Diamonds: How our current system is failing underprivileged talent
How would myself or anyone else interested get on the crypto nerd slack?