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Yes, that's true, point to you! I'm not sure I would call it 'popular' though. Maybe 'somewhat common among people with no other possible options outside of death or prison (death).'

> He makes an explicit case for both (1) and (2). He doesn't try and merely imply (2).

You read wrong. tvladek did not say Buecheler implied anything, only that being correct about one thing does not imply being correct about another.

And if you advertised for a slave you would presumably be dealing with the owner of said slave, so if you were offering a reasonable price, then no that would not be an exploitative offer.

Khoo's job posting offers value and leaves it up to the applicant to decide if that is inline with their requirements. For some it will be a dream job. For others it will not.

Slaves do not choose to be slaves, that is part of the definition of the term. The introduction of hyperbole and apples to oranges comparisons does not further conversation.

I wondered what the actual number was, related to HN's issues of course. Would be fun to know something like this.

I kept reading expecting an explanation for this, but there isn't one. Does he understand the difference? Who knows.

The explanation of "every step of the build" is pretty limited too.

They probably left reddit out of the list since it's kind of a dirty word on HN. :)

Um, since Instagram is Facebook, by my estimate Facebook owns 46% of that graph and is still most popular by a long-shot.

Same here. I love Alfred but I often forget it's even around because of my visor terminal.

All fair points, but I never defined adulthood, only disagreed with the parent which stated "the cut-off is not biological, it's social". Of course there are social factors as well as biological. I'm sure I'm not qualified to form such a definition, though if I tried it would have to include many factors.

I, for example, moved out of my parents' house at 18, but I wouldn't say I became an 'adult' until at least my early 30's. Even now I feel like a kid most of the time, in spite of my many responsibilities - even with a kid of my own!

I don't think we ever finish maturing, and I think we never stop learning, even though our 'peak' mental ability may come and go.

No, it was sarcasm.

Can't trust that graph because the x axis doesn't start at 0 ;)

> And that's because the cut-off is not biological, it's social.

I disagree. There is a wealth of biological evidence to show that a human's brain doesn't finish maturing until (approx.) age 25. By that standard you could make the argument that 25 is when people reach adulthood.

Of course, what we're really talking about here is expectations of responsibility, so even though "by 15 or 16 people should already be expected to act like adults" these young people still have maturing to do.

It's not surprising that in our rich modern society the age of 'adulthood' has risen to 25, especially considering we live so much longer than we used to.

Glad to help a fellow Portlander! :o)

I should clarify that the video quality was fine, but it would pause for buffering often at the beginning. Once I made it a few minutes in this cleared up. I'm in the Pacific Northwest, USA if that helps with troubleshooting.

You should consider expanding this to include other types of therapy workers. I know from doing tech work amongst mental health professionals that most are required to log x amount of hours doing y before they can obtain licensing as a z. Since you have the platform and domain knowledge you should be able to add features to widen your target demographic.

Thanks for the link! I Googled this half-heartedly this morning while cleaning out my inbox but didn't have time to sift through the results. Funny stuff!

Your demo video is stuttering and unwatchable. I'm guessing it's getting hammered from this post.

The site looks really nice, and appears to have really great content. Signup achieved.

I would read it. As you are seemingly living my dream I would love to do a bit of vicarious living through your blog. :)

Carrier pigeons? On my commute this morning, while dodging a flock of Canada Geese that live in park, I was wondering if anyone has ever tried to ship illegal items via migrating birds. I had to ponder how much cocaine, or other illicit substance, a goose could carry. And if the shipment didn't make it, does the bird get whacked?

Anyway, if you're face-to-face with someone they still tracked both of your positions to/from the meeting and used cameras in the area to run facial recognition. Then they transcribed the convo to text by hijacking area mics or using the cameras for speech recognition.

If you're really important they'll land a tiny UAV on your person and literally 'bug' you. Better to just stay inside and keep your waste in mason jars...

Minor note, but the p (or i) is not important here, so it would just be HD720 or HD1080. The p/i denotes a method of displaying the image, either through interlacing[0] or progressive scan[1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_scan

The best advice I can give for exercising is to turn off your brain (or part of it) for a while. Concentrate on visceral things like breathing and posture, not performance metrics or meal strategies. Let your subconscious chew on technical stuff and focus your attention on being a physical machine that pulls in oxygen and burns fuel to produce energy. Also, try not to get hit by cars! (I ride a bike)

This isn't something that needs to be researched, it just needs to get done. Put something together and push it out, gain domain knowledge, refactor, repeat. Experience will be your guide and most of what you read during 'research' won't relate anyway, but you won't realize this until you have the experience. That's assuming the research phase doesn't paralyze you with options and statistics and metrics. You don't need a comprehensive prospectus, just change one thing. Then change another when you feel like it or it makes sense to do so.

I could expand on this if anyone is interested. I actually wrote a lot more here but decided it was probably irritating and chopped a bunch off.

As someone who assigns little value to academia I would like to say, without irony or pretense:

Best of luck to you, sir! I hope it's fulfilling, but never to the point of satisfaction! :)

Because if they don't exhaust their budget they won't get as much funding next year. Got to put some boots on the ground and make it look like they're busy!

EDIT: Seriously, though. It occurs to me that I'm being a smart ass around a terrible situation (even if there is truth in what I said). I hope all is well with you and yours. If I was religious I would pray for you!

It's true. My first thought when reading "if it is managed properly" was "yeah, right." We humans tend to fuck things up.

You see? Cynical.

This was my first thought too, except for rogue/nethack/other ascii-based roguelikes.

Appropriate use of the word. Look here [0] as it pertains to law.

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+violence

I agree with everything except the 'next segway' bit. The segway had it's day partly due to the novelty, but this is just a fancy (and heavy!) electric mo-ped. Mo-peds have been around a long time.

Nothing to see here.

I found the KitKat site to flow better than the Android site it was parodying. In Chrome, even.

Key Lime Pie would have been better. I don't have a problem with the name or Nestle getting on board, though if 4.4 turns out to be horrible they're going to regret the tie-in. I just think sticking to dessert names rather than brand names is better.

Side note: This guy [0] owes us a video!!

[0] http://bit.ly/xGxKfy

Edit: Didn't want anything to melt.

Hah! Well, usually I can get past things like a lack of apostrophe or incorrect use of there/their/they're, I wouldn't consider myself a "Grammar Nazi". But for some reason this one causes me to lose my place when reading. I kept having to go back and find where I was in the paragraph and re-read the sentence to be sure of who is involved and what they were doing.

Do these inventions just have to be complete or in widespread use?

Smart glass is done and has been for a long time. See Transitions Lenses or Speedglas welding masks. I realize it's cost-prohibitive to scale, but there's also SAGE windows, which use liquid crystal to block light.

I'm not sure what qualifies as an EL panel, but LED panels have gotten crazy bright and cheap and are being used more and more.

I count the conveyors in airports as 'moving sidewalks'. :)

I agree Moon colonization was a fail, but to be fair we could colonize the moon, but why would we want to?