Teodolfo

The USA desperately needs federally mandated paid parental leave and paid pregnancy leave along with strong incentives to actually take the time off.

I love deep learning and I am sympathetic to the concern that too much of it will end up patented. However, these garbage popsci tech journalist articles need to slow down. I can't imagine anyone who doesn't already love it not starting to hate deep learning after all the garbage articles about it.

The user needs to control the encryption, not Google or Yahoo. Surely Google is not proposing a system that prevents them from reading your email and serving you ads? Until we have something that actually prevents Google and Yahoo from getting the plaintext, none of the other problems matter that much.

The NSA isn't my concern, Google etc. are. I don't want to bother going to the lengths necessary to secure myself from the NSA since that just isn't practical. But it would be nice if google and its employees didn't have access to the plaintext of my email. If I send an email to anyone using gmail and they decrypt it in a way that lets google see my text when they reply, all of my own security steps are worthless.

A lot of these ideas, with the possible exception of conformal prediction, have quite a lot of academic literature. They are hardly neglected.

Markets can't solve everything. If "the market" creates massive firms, maybe some things need massive central planning? See http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/john-galt-and-th...

Bar associations should demand that lawyers allow clients encrypted email communication. The adoption problem for encrypted email (all encrypted controlled by the client machine using open source software so google or whoever doesn't also have access to the plaintext) is so hard because it takes BOTH parties to keep communication secure. If all lawyers had to do this, people would become much more aware and maybe demand their medical and tax information sent over email also be encrypted.