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Thoughts:

* Standards of living are variable, and especially so between different social classes.

* Debt requires someone to earn more money than they would otherwise need to in order to meet the same standard of living as someone without debt.

* The variety of higher margin products and lower margin counterparts create inefficiency in making consistent spending choices, particularly when it comes to visibility (e.g. marketing).

* Healthcare costs can be extremely variable from person to person.

* A big question is what it takes for a person to feel contentment. E.g. I have multiple family members living hundreds to thousands of miles away from me, from each other even, that I never get to see, and I would be a much happier person today if I was able to spend more time with them. Other factors can include obtaining a sense of achievement in what you do with your time, or a sense of approval from your peers.

* People have a much smaller pool of peers to identify with if they don't go to a regular workplace or gathering of some kind.

* There are regional differences in supply and demand, especially for property, housing, water, and egress. I'd include food, too, if I didn't think you were targeting the US.

I can probably come up with more, but I'll just leave it at that for now.

It seems more of an effort to retain people working on the project that fall into the protected categories, and losing those people is a real possibility if someone else's negative attitudes get back to them, regardless of whether they're vocal about it.

I'm not sure whether I think the public spaces bit should apply to everyone though. Certainly project leadership should be held to it if that's what they're aspiring to.

I've read a grand total of two of those. Working Effectively with Legacy Code seems like it would make for a good read.

Well, I suppose you could argue either way, but I think it's a better question in the sense that humans are going to be used as a control group by most people that follow pop science, and they're going to make assumptions that humans have this ability innately (I imagine development psychology has some degree of understanding for this already). Most discussion about this is going to be comparing the results to something else. Then there are questions like, could someone tell themselves apart from an identical twin without error?

Better question is whether humans are capable of self-recognition without false positives/negatives.

> Also, fraudulent payments/chargebacks are non-existent, so some costs are even reduced

That's a farce. Someone can take control of someone else's bitcoin wallet. Then there's the question of refunds and when you can write off an unclaimed bitcoin refund.

I've stated elsewhere in the thread that there would need to be privacy protections, e.g. require Google or anyone using biometrics to be HIPAA compliant, make it opt-in only, but if anyone is actually going to implement this, medical research should benefit.

Medical researchers?

If you combined this with multifactor authentication (e.g. fallback to a password for a 100% trust score), it could potentially match your change in biometrics against a diagnostics knowledge base and use any new data following to further train the diagnostics knowledge base. Of course, that would have to be opt-in with patient confidentiality as strongly defended as possible (there needs to be laws and regulations defending privacy with this model), but it would be an interesting source of data collection.

Calling it a trust score instead of a confidence score was pretty stupid of them and lends to the whole creepy vibe mentioned in the title.

Well, I would say that vertically centering a thumbnail to the left of a block of text would certainly be easier with flex box. My previous solution would have been:

    .container { position: relative; }
    .thumbnail { position: absolute; margin: auto 0; width: w; height: h; margin: auto 0; top: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; }
    .summary { padding-left: w; min-height: h; }

With flexbox that becomes:

    .container { display: flex; }
    .thumbnail { align-self: center; }

There are a lot fewer traps and design is a lot more scalable in that you don't have to worry per se about width and height.

Well, at least camel case is generally agreed upon. Meanwhile, I wonder if anyone anywhere takes advantage of the breadth of unicode support for variable names.

Known or hypothesized?

Probably should have included that.

Meanwhile, reviewing my post it reminded me of my US History teacher in middle school telling me that the Conquistadors in the Americas were after the 5 Gs: Gold, Gold, Gold, God, and Glory. I listed five things: Time, Time, Time, Degrees and Factors. I'd be thrilled if someone could say the same thing but with all of the words starting with the same letter.

Radians are superior IMO. Using degrees for measurement is archaic compared to radians, but I imagine whole arabic-numeral numbers are more familiar than PI symbols in the learning process at the point in life when most kids are first learning geometry something related to angles. Understanding PI symbols for the first time could possibly come alongside an algebra curriculum, but I'm not a K-12 educator so if I had an opinion, it wouldn't be worth any weight.

Meanwhile, your response got me to look up whether there's a metric equivalent to degrees or radians. Apparently that exists and it's a measure called Gradians. There are 400 Gradians in a circle, and 400 is not divisible by 12. I guess that idea went the way of the French Republican Calendar.

I disagree.

1. We have time. Days are 24 hours, a multiple of 12.

2. We still have time. Hours are 60 minutes, a multiple of 12.

3. Yet more time. Minutes are 60 seconds, a multiple of 12.

4. We have circles. There are 360 degrees in a circle, another multiple of 12.

5. The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12 itself divide into 12 evenly. The next smallest number that has more factors than 12 is 24, which manages to be a multiple of 12.

Unless it's been cleaned up significantly, I don't really like the database that Urton has (as of ~2-3 years ago). It is a great resource, but I'd have to spend a few weeks trying to chew out the inconsistencies if I were to be able to use it in a way that I would be comfortable analyzing. Much of the text data is outright messy, which I guess is an artifact of hand-entry. Imagery alongside the data would be nice. Aside from that, the biggest thing that could probably be done to improve the data (at least to make it easier to process) is to develop one or more serialized string forms for cords instead of having solely a related table with individual knots.

I guess now the question is whether they can do it the majority of the time.

Really good way to prevent drunk driving: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignition_interlock_device

I've also seen breathalyzers in some bars where you can check your BAC before going anywhere.

This article doesn't seem to be representative of its title. If you're going to ask that question, you have to make comparisons. I would probably say no, because until most of the web supports HTTP/2.0, there's no server-push capability which makes a lot of things a pain in the ass.

You talk about ethics like it is an entirely black and white concept. I would consider a lot of Facebook's practices unethical in comparison to my own set of ethics. There are ethical dilemmas, which are basically what most discussion about ethics is about to begin with. You use the word unethical but without discussing ethical dilemmas, and that makes your argument weak even though you potentially have a very strong argument.

If only they did a release where that was the only change that broke backwards-compatibility with Python 2.

Weird that a guy with the know-hows to prepare for such a situation didn't survive.

Is this Facebook's future? After all, they're pretty much AOL 2.0 (2.0).

There's a melting pot effect, too.

I don't consider Wordpress's market penetration a plus, because it makes it a target. On the other hand, I made some money recently (unfortunately only for analysis rather than a solution) because a website that someone I know manages got a virus.

Meanwhile, I'm very disappointed in the expectation of abandonment of the email client I've been using for over 10 years.

They're now favoring Firefox branding over Mozilla branding?

This is what I'm not understanding about this. How in the world do you make the mistake of storing credential files in a repo? And this seems to be beyond people not making template files for configs. Then again, I don't know anything about NodeJS packaging.

My initial interpretation of the title was that someone at Amazon had managed to purchase truck trailers for Amazon on Amazon.