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> It feels like colleges are turning into breeding grounds for social justice warriors

Is this really the case? All colleges probably have a vocal minority of activists, and some colleges have more than others. But I'd guess the vast majority of students are still there to learn and have fun?

> It feels like the onus should be on the colleges to make costs more reasonable, rather than getting another handout from a rich benefactor (which will not last long).

Agreed, this won't do anything to solve the underlying problem. Lately, it seems like throwing money at a problem is all we prepared to do (see also the Proposition 10 homeless tax).

> It's a really unfortunate strategy the Atlantic has taken.

The Atlantic's title is "Killer Tulips Hiding in Plain Sight."

Or did they change it?

How about allowing teenagers to tag photos of each other drunk or high or doing something regrettable?

How about not actually deleting those photos from your servers when the kids request them to be deleted?

Uber is disrupting walking.

"One" person is two, and they made valid points that you refused to acknowledge.

> Red light cameras or speeding cameras on a few areas !== all encompassing surveillance that implements 100% compliance with the laws.

Who said there would be all-encompassing surveillance, or that 100% compliance with the laws would be enforced? That's a straw man that you created.

I like this quote too, but it portrays Facebook leadership as bumbling but good-hearted. I'm not sure if that's the case, or if they've been aware of the problems and just never gave a shit.

I had a CEO who always kept a gaggle of yes-men at his heels. They were very enthusiastic about the product, even as degraded into a flaming pile of garbage and the walls crumbled around us.

You know who owns WhatsApp, right?

Of course, but this doesn't negate the fact that more evidence (and better evidence) is generally good.

As others have pointed out, your example doesn't hold water: other countries have speeding cameras already, and our speedometers are already sufficiently accurate.

Do you have a better example?

> Where did I say street crime doesn't exist?

Your argument is that if cameras don't help with fraud or wage theft or domestic violence, they serve no purpose.

Cameras may impact street crime, and street crime is rampant in many U.S. cities. White collar crime has no bearing on this, and it's irrelevant to the discussion.

There were 30,000 car break-ins reported in San Francisco last year.

Just because fraud exists, this does not mean street crime does not exist. What a strange argument.

> "Innocent until proven guilty."

Whose innocence being questioned here? The quote is a non-sequitur in this context, unless you consider "being on camera" a punishment reserved for the guilty. I have bad news for you, if you've ever set foot inside a supermarket, drugstore, fast-food restaurant, corporate office, etc.

Good thing we leave officers to rely on their intuitions, their biases, and secondhand accounts, instead of video evidence.

> We'd never have consented to many of them if we knew they'd be 100% enforced.

Like what?

Times change with technology, whether we like it or not. Thankfully, laws can adapt too.

> being able to select targets after-the-fact at little additional cost because of indiscriminate surveillance

This seems like a bizarre way of thinking, that crimes should only be punished if the criminal happens to be caught in the act, or if law enforcement follows a trail of breadcrumbs involving unreliable eyewitness accounts and scraps of evidence.

How many people have been wrongfully convicted because the police needed to get the crime off the books, or evidence was misleading, or eyewitnesses gave false testimony?

You speak as if it's a forgone conclusion that this is the way things should be, but what's the basis?

The Art Institute of Chicago is where I appreciated art for the first time. It has an amazing collection, and it's not an overcrowded zoo, especially on weekdays.

I believe they’re using GPS data here more for analytics, rather than navigation.

They can use GPS data to chart usage metrics, plan pool rides, check for anomalies, and harass journalists, for example.

And if he felt so strongly about not working for them, why not just delete the email? You’re not obligated to apply when a recruiter spams you.

That said, I do think the big tech companies have abysmal hiring processes. It’s not horrifying, but it’s a bit depressing.

How did Amazon cause the heroin problem in Seattle? There's been a growing heroin and homelessness problem all over the country. Did it cause this too?

That’s not the problem.

The problem is I can only see about 50% of the slide, and pinch-to-zoom doesn’t work.

Ouch, Go not included in languages Google commonly uses.

Why don’t the numbers always add up? A Tesla P3 engineer lists his or her base as $130k, stock grant as $150k and TC is listed as as $168,000?

Does it not check whether the numbers make sense?

Why does he have an axe to grind with Intel?

> You don't want a general "radio decoder". You want a 4G modem

Might we not want both, for different purposes? Software-defined radio won't match the performance or efficiency of specialized RF hardware, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have any utility.

> for flatter schema's I do personally think TOML is more readable than it's JSON, YAML and XML

Yes. But for nested data, I find TOML becomes the least readable and I have to fall back to YAML or JSON.

Maybe we need just one more ML...

In my discussions with people, it seems like he’s becoming increasingly polarizing. His fans are idolizing him, but others see his behavior as attention-seeking theatrics. Interesting to see how it plays out in the long run, in terms of company PR.

$3500 is median asking price for a 1BR now.

We'll see how that works out for them.

I'm not very familiar with the subject, but I've been hearing about academic work on optical integrated circuits for a few years now. Is this work being commercialized yet? Are there photonic ICs in use in industry?