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I'm a little confused by augur. It can only predict things well based on a large crowd of people betting on it? So the more specific or niche the event, the less chances it will be correct?

Aren't all investments "betting on an outcome"? Betting the stock will be worth more, betting my house will be worth more, betting my car will maintain more of its value versus a different model or betting its better to buy now against the outcome of inflation? Even a date is betting my time that the outcome will be me getting along with stranger.

My understanding is it is often common for people to have seizures in their sleep so they wake up sore and tired but unsure if they actually had one. This will be awesome to have an "always on" sensor that can give the full picture.

I have no idea why this is controversial. The previous day's Gladwell article even comes to the same conclusion as most that notoriety and coverage are major factor in these types of attacks.

At what point does the constant retread of mass murders' ideals become fetishization? Does anyone really think we'll prevent more of these attacks by deep analysis of their writings or are we just obsessed with the possibility of understanding horrible tragedies?

I'm tired of reading these monsters' names and quotes. They all thought they were the smartest people on the planet and everyone should read their words.

I'm going to stick with remembering the amazing people taken from us instead. I think about people like Liviu Librescu and Alex Teves a lot as a reminder of the requirement for good people to stand up to evil. http://nonotoriety.com/

I found out about nextdoor.com from reddit. I thought it was so bizarre people would want their full names, address and sometimes pictures broadcast. I wanted to see if I could get in with a fake address and name and they do require you to somehow verify you live there (they mail you a card or you link it to a phone number) so I just gave up. Lo and behold I get an email the next week saying my account had been approved anyone because "one of my neighbors verified I lived there".

What does disturbed even mean? Mentally ill?

Ah I misunderstood, I thought it was OCR.

Could you give me an example? They just write a ticket for something that never happened?

I can't even remember a parking ticket I got that wasn't my fault.

>Using its app, Fixed customers could snap a photo of their parking ticket using their phone’s camera, and then Fixed would check against a variety of common errors before writing a customized letter to the city on the user’s behalf. The app also cleverly tapped into Google Street View to check to see if the city had the proper signage in place in the area a ticket was received.

They should open source that so it can just be a web app, entirely possible it could still be really useful.

I'm probably younger than you and not married so this might be a silly question, but do you still have a social life with moving so much? Also the Airstream looks so cool, like your trailing a space ship from 1955.

Pretty cool. On a side note the Pinewood Derby was really exciting for me in Scouts until I showed up with my dinky handmade car and saw basically everyone else's car was built by their parents. What a disappointment.

I think the mindset is more "bring the parts you like, leave the parts you don't." I know there are some hypocritical people (especially the Anarcho-primitivism people) that have romanticized ideas but the people in this article at least just seem to like it and aren't trying to avoid all progress or society.

Did you save to make the trip or are you still working during (or both)? Were you an RVer before hand? Are you doing it alone?

So many questions, I always thought this was an interesting avenue to take when considering "working remotely".

> If it doesn't have a keyboard, I feel that my thoughts are being forced out through a straw.

Wow I've been feeling this exactly but never had such a good description. Great interview, thanks for posting.

> In June, the university concluded that Dr. Marcy had engaged in inappropriate behavior with students, including groping them, kissing them and touching or massaging them.

Very gross.

Permutation City by Greg Egan explores what it would mean if you could easily upload your consciousness but wealth meant access to better, faster, hardware to store it.

A picture of a child seems especially personal too.

He doesn't. Just wants the publicity and to hurt people he feels have "wronged" him.

Click the "Info" tab near the top for a key.

I think most people would use the word "mindfulness" for what you're describing. It is an amazing feeling that I get from lifting but never quite got from cardio.

Wouldn't all this be effectively prevented with either blacklisting all numbers outside the US or a whitelist on the elderly person's phone?

I wonder if that corridor is going to fill up with dead birds soon.

In my head it is the difference between coming to a thread and seeing some hypothetical hidden racist/sexist/ist comment that has been downvoted to hell and ignored or seeing the conversation being dominated with people having a discourse trying to change the ignorant opinion.

I'm all for trying to help people understand the reaction to their comments but it also sidetracks every conversation and there seems to be an endless supply of people making ignorant comments.

Equality doesn't mean hiding the parts of your identity. You may want that total anonymity where I can't even tell if you're a human or a very smart dog but some people enjoy bringing in parts of their identity to conversations and that isn't wrong or anti-equality. It is akin to saying "I don't want to see race". Well that may seem equal but you're really just ignoring something that many people find very important to their identity.

And there are plenty of times on 4chan when people identify as male without any aversion to the label. It sounds like some people just don't want the "others" to identify themselves.

Wouldn't the racist want to self alter their behavior if they kept being excluded from a group?

Sure I'd love a world where I could really help change someone's mind but it is often easier and safer to just ignore those people as putting effort into trying to "help" them doesn't really offer me anything besides more abuse.

I think that might be an intuitive reaction but I don't agree because those type of hateful ideas aren't engaged with. Those people just enter echo chambers with other like minded people and their opinions bounce back and force, picking up velocity until they can't be altered in those people's minds.

Really not about washing dishes but about mindfulness.

I'm pretty sure new cars are storing this information anyway.