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Kept looking for the hate with no luck.

Your "outing" is appreciated. [deleted/emailed]

There is only one core product that Facebook has. It's not a platform for anything other than that. Any new features must pass that test, and the implementation of this one didn't.

Mouseover is a little screwed up for touch devices. Nice job though, very useful.

Indeed. And maybe that straight lines on a map of Africa do not countries make.

The interesting question for Apple buying this is if battery life is a factor in their planned obsolescence. I'm not sure it is at this point.

Apologies for the extreme simplification, but I think the time line assumed in your post is backwards: during the industrial revolution (and long after) there wasn't much of a reason to think about this, given the surplus of manual labor and fast technological advancements. It was not a very humane time.

>I forbid my 4yo son to touch my tools, but he is allowed to watch when I'm fixing something, and sometime I ask him for help

This is hilariously reminiscent of my early childhood, so I can confidently speculate that your kid will also become an expert at putting things back just the way they were before you left the house.

Just got lost in there for a very nice hour. Much more practical and to my taste than Kurzweil. Then I found this, a Kurzweil/McCarthy disagreement: http://www.edge.org/discourse/singularity.html

Edit: really enjoyed the story, thanks Colin.

>I don't think that the new owner would take security more serious than them.

I don't know about that. Their dismissal was (at least framed as) "well that's a lot of data, so it's not going to happen!"

Actual excerpt from their blog, on the 27th: "Theoretically, if someone were able to upload a huge set of phone numbers, like every number in an area code, or every possible number in the U.S., they could create a database of the results and match usernames to phone numbers that way."

This is kind of a joke.

I submitted that blog post here because it was so irritating. I wasn't daring anyone to do anything and had nothing to do with snapchatdb.

Didn't that make you feel a little better?

It wouldn't be hiding biases, it would be making them inconsequential. That's pretty much the best you can hope for, once you admit the possibility that there's no such state as bias-free.

This is not a plain level field. Many are still suffering from institutional discrimination based on race, generations later, just as some are still enjoying the fruits of it. The bubbles exist. Obvious point made because this ties into culture, which is what programs like this help with. You're trying to deal with social issues at a universal human level which is orders of magnitude harder, if not impossible in practice. If I'm understanding you correctly.

My point was, however: you're taking an absolute view of discrimination based on race being racism. It's not the case.

Since you seem to be very connected to the a generic literal meaning of things, try taking one more step and imagine how this "racism" would manifest itself, what the negative repercussions could be. Would whites and males be kicked out or jailed for trying to attend?

You're ignoring the cultural context in favor of whatever correct perspective you have. Unfortunately, natural language doesn't respond well to simple analysis like yours.

1+1=2[0]

Happy now?

[0] http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=umhist...

Good thing he didn't chemically castrate anyone, they'd never pardon that.

>I don't care where the money comes from.

This is what the study is about. A decent conversation is hoped for around that alone, not opinions on the climate change debate.

Another funny side effect of non-lethal weapons is very likely testimony against the perpetrator, by the victim.

>do backups manually to media not normally connected to the computer

Yup. This is really the only 100% way to have control over your stuff, local, physically separated storage.

> notice that something has gone wrong sometime between when the infection starts and when you connect the drive.

This assumes a chronological/incremental order for complete backups, which in practice is lazy and not related to the value of your data. Your only enemy should be the hardware. Dealing with the ugliest virus/worm/trojan turns into a mere nuisance when you have that kind of headroom.

Yes, lets. In the meantime, if your data is not in at least two places, it doesn't exist. I'm a fan of three.

I'm not saying having servants is only exploitation, I'm pointing out that to chalk it all up to economics is the mistake you're making. That's all.

Here's my point: even the job you can offer someone in India as a servant, cook, driver, DJ, depends on having access to that opportunity. You don't just go in a slum and randomly pick somebody (if you do, I admire you, but you're not the average). That access itself is based on a lot of other factors that have nothing to do with economics, and the rules for that access vary greatly accross India.

That really depends on your definition of "reasonable". I'm not saying you don't have a good point about the economics of it, that would be the one thing included in "reasonable" metrics. But the fact is that all of the cities you listed have different versions of everything from traditions to religion to language. Ignoring that gets you nowhere when talking about India, though politicians and nationalists would have you believe otherwise.

>India's problem is poverty, not inequality.

I would agree, but life in a city like Kolkata is very different from a place like tribal Odisha. Sheer numbers (as opposed to percentages) are more important when you get in the hundreds of millions.

Your sample is too small. India is more of a fragmented subcontinent than a country. There is no "city like Bombay" (other than Mumbai).

Thanks, looks great.

You cannot figure out the "servant" business in India without considering the caste system. We get the income inequality side pretty well, it makes sense. But until the caste crap gets replaced by a different currency, being/having a servant is a different concept from a westerner's.

AutoHotkey is a great way to get your kids coding. Not sure if there's anything like it for what kids use most nowadays, iOS and Android tablets, but having them make macros and letting them manipulate their favorite piece of software in ways they didn't think possible is usually an eye opener.

Edit: I'd add SpaceSniffer to this list.

A different take on the printed speaker, this was news a couple days ago: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/12/fully-functional...