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It is perfectly fine to judge. Having been a juror in criminal cases involving repeat offenders and lived in cities with crime problems, I can tell you that actual criminals being found "not guilty" or guilty and given probation (nothing) is MORE common than justice being served. The system is comically far from perfect.

I really like this idea, but honestly, isn't it basically a reformulation of the Socratic method? A really good teacher will naturally use dialectical techniques to engage their students. Is this just some way to structure that in a way that can be measured?

Yeah, but they do solve hard problems, very hard. I'll give him a pass for saying that. A bit of hyperbole doesn't discredit his claim.

I have a hard time feeling sorry for the white-collar workforce at Amazon. They have choices, are well-paid, do interesting stuff and can leave if and when they want. The story is very different for the warehouse workers.

Yes, there is: "kinematic synthesis." It is not typically considered a "computer science" topic; it is instead taught in various forms in mechanical engineering curriculums.

OK, but you have to admit it does the job and few (none?) people complain about the limitations of VT100 terminal emulation.

If we could start from scratch what would a contemporary TTY be like? Would it be better in terms of functionality, multi-platform capability? What would be the advantage?

Haven't tried it yet, but the history visualization looks very cool. It can be useful to actually SEE branches sometimes. As for why its not on linux desktop? Probably too much work to adapt for many different flavors for a small number of people.

Good for them. But sadly, people who live there are habituated to driving from everywhere to everywhere simply because home, workplace and "third places" (shopping,recreation,entertainment,etc) are 10's of miles apart from each other.

When the sprawling highways were put in, nobody ever considered that everybody would get sick of driving all the time and that each highway widening project would precipitate even more driving and ever-increasing congestion.

Fortunately, there are some compact mainstreet communities in the LA area. These are excellent candidates for complete streets and biking infrastructure. If this can nucleate in some communities more folks will gravitate towards communities with less driving. That will be a very "long game" process however.

The fact that I didn't need to provide answers to security questions for Mint to use means (I think) that Mint has worked out some agreement with the banks which allow "query-only" interactions.

Also, many banks have a way to alert users to logins from new machines and many have things like 2-factor authentication and security questions which would make it hard for a criminal to use my credentials if they were somehow swiped from Mint.

It is perfectly fine to applaud Deloitte, sadly, this concept won't spread.

HR departments are so entrenched with annual review bullshit that even if they call it a different name and put a new "spin" on it, it will just end up being even more disappointing shit-work for everyone.

I wouldn't call it "shenanigans" unless there were ever a case of Mint making any change to a user's account. So far none. They're clearly not trying to trick people into giving up credentials for nefarious purposes.

Yes, I've been a mint user since well before they were bought by Intuit.

I didn't think it was a bad idea, because it is clearly explained that Mint can't make changes to your accounts. It is only used for query. I am under the impression that the banks only allow Mint query capabilities. They've lately released a new service called "Mint Bills"-- which does make changes but that is separate from their main "Mint" service.

I've recommended Mint to friends and those who've tried it like it.

Things are changing lately, however. Banks are providing more and more "Mint-like" analytic services for their customers. These days, if you have your stuff at one bank there's little need for something like Mint.

I think there will always be room for a service that can work with multiple financial services/banks/accounts at the same time and with a uniform interface. Unfortunately, this is an exceedingly hard business for start-ups to crack (my opinion). To do it right (without asking users to literally surrender control of their accounts), services like Mint need to negotiate with multiple financial institutions-- not fun at all, just to get to the starting-point where one can compete with Mint.

It depends. Floyd Landis was pinched by a test performed on a mass spectrometer !

I suppose that "supercomputers" are all multi-processor these days, so the colossal FLOP numbers are counted as an aggregation over many processors and one has to coordinate these processors in any application that takes advantage of the FLOP specs.

Now I am curious what is the fastest single processor?

Blood samples, I believe, can be stored cryogenically for some period of time and evaluated at a future date using tests/techniques not yet developed at the time the sample was originally drawn.

The efficacy of all this depends on having a rock-solid chain-of-custody for the blood samples-- just like evidence used for a criminal court. Not easy.

Really, its because they have cats as pets. Look at the first picture in the article. Cats.

Yep, very practical for getting stuff displayed cogently and with minimal fuss. I wish other platforms besides R would have something like this.

Finally, a real tricorder to call my own! (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/a6eb/)

Well, if we do detect a signal, we're not going to just transmit "wassup?" and wait for an answer. I think it will be an interesting problem to have a conversation with other beings where the lag time is measured in decades!

There was quite a bit of outrage about "content farms" a few years ago. Not so much now. Did readers or search engines get better at filtering the crap out?

Why are you thinking of "a million other things" you need to learn?

That's the core obstacle these days to picking up new skills and knowledge.

Mastery of any subject-matter ALWAYS takes practice and repetition. Simple, but those things require sustained repeated investments of your time and attention.

If it is from a house guest who attended a party or social function I've hosted, it is a much appreciated expression of gratitude and may end up temporarily on the fridge especially if there's witty quip or cool-looking stationery.

If it is from an elderly relative or child under 10 years old, it is appreciated as a quaint old-fashioned gesture: awww isn't that cute! It goes on the fridge.

If it is from a job candidate who I've just interviewed? I will assume it was from a hapless out-of-touch person who took out-of-date job-interview advice uncritically and verbatim. It raises a small red-flag for awkwardness. It goes in the shredder.

I think you underestimate the bliss many people receive from being able to flap their gums endlessly about their favorite topics.

It is very nice to have separated bike lanes, but they're of limited utility if they don't connect useful transportation endpoints (eg residential, commercial, recreational).

Yes, it is more work to stop and start at a red light, but there are other trade-offs as well. In particular, if a cyclist can "get through" an intersection BEFORE cars in the same & opposite direction start moving again, it is easier to negotiate the intersection: The cyclist doesn't have to worry as much about the infamous "right-hook" of turning motorists. This requires, of course, that the cyclist has correctly assessed cross traffic.

Unfortunately, some personality types just can't handle the fact that cyclists openly subvert "the rules". I don't think that explaining _why_ cyclists do this is going to work on them, regardless of how pragmatic the cyclist behavior is.

What people do with ashes is completely unenforceable. How can anyone stop somebody from putting remains wherever they like? How would anyone know?

Technically, they're not "ashes" but "cremains" and are composed almost entirely calcium and salts which is very different from ash (the residue of a fire burning).

And the point is...?

What, that there are cultural and economic differences between countries in Europe as far as young adults are concerned?

Some of those "jargons" would better be classified as a "figure of speech".

Jargon refers more accurately to a set of words or specialized language used exclusively by a particular group of people. SNAFU, Elevator pitch, *.elfie could be used by anybody, they're not considered jargon.

"monkey-patch" and "spike" might be considered developer jargon.

Jargon should only be plural if you are specifically referring to more than one specialized language or jargon.

This discussion is useless without specific examples. Who/Where are these politically incorrect people who are having their careers systematically "ruined" to the scale that one would think that "tech" itself is under siege?

touché !

Yeah, but if we ever get driverless cars, you can bet on it that the log files will be detailed enough for really fine accident reconstruction. In other words, a "replay" could expose such hacking.