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It was already the case that no one reads the article before commenting. Soon it will be that no one writes the article either.

Seems like you need your accountant since you can’t count to three

This is super freaking cool. I'm curious how you feel about Austin vs Bay Area in terms of general quality of life, culture, things like that?

Would you have argued that the American civil war was recent in 1940?

Maybe all of these victims can get their wish of Wikipedia notoriety on a page called “List of victims of Wikipedia article scams”

Self-defense is violent, yes

You can drive to 8 national parks and monuments in half a day from SF.

Accurate. On one hand, we didn't want to fuel the fire, but on the other, that inflammatory article forced the attacker to reveal their hand. So it was actually to our benefit, strangely enough.

I think two key parts of what you said are "most people" and "normal people". This normativity is taken for granted here. Preference for terse messages is ultimately a matter of taste and I've yet to see evidence that one belongs to a clear majority.

"current" is more precise than "actual"

I like to think of dog training as programming an emotional computer. There are lots of similarities (breaking up problems into smal steps for one) and the payoff feels just as great.

Unfortunately it seems the lectures have been taken down.

So upvote every submission except for the one you don't like.

Is it ok to respond with "then why haven't you done it already?"

Though it's a good point I don't think it's valid counter-argument to the moral imperative "we should provide good education to our nation's children." Globalism may be around the corner, but until then, "our" nation's society is the one "we" are responsible for.

Your anecdote against hers. Thrilling.

Engineerist.

Gamestop may have Streisand effected themselves. I hadn't heard of OnLive before today but will probably try it out tonight.

So it's like enforcing speed limit laws- the government can't possibly ticket every person who drives over the speed limit, so they ticket some percentage of speeders and from that expect that less people will speed.

I already knew the about the vast disparity in the top 1% of earners, but I did not know how difficult it is to retire comfortably. A 30-year retirement is quite a luxury.

What is the modern lead? BPA?

I think the way people are responding isn't helping this question. This could have been good if responders had elaborated on what was promised vs what was delivered, but instead they just list the technology and write, essentially, "this was overhyped".

Pot kettle black.

Let's not get caught in a false dichotomy. Not having a Facebook does not necessarily make you anti-social. But if we take "anti-social" to be a measure of one's social availability, not having Facebook decreases that measure. Communicating only by smoke signal or carrier pigeon would make you extremely unavailable whereas communicating by email and telephone would make you very available. In some demographics, users check their Facebook 3+ times per day, so depending on your social circle, being on Facebook makes you highly available.

For the record, I do not use Facebook, but I accept that it makes me less available. Friends who make Facebook events to organize events can invite nearly everyone they want to invite to their event on Facebook, but have to go out of their way to invite me via different means. This makes me anti-social to some (pretty small) degree.

The difference is that sudont explained why one would conflate the two while the child only said "Do not do it" with no explanation.

Don't make assertions without support.

The best kind of quote- entertaining and instructive.

Though Kurzweil is well respected I find myself unconvinced of most of his assertions.

Can anyone with a medical background chime in on whether or not this is even possible?