homingbrain

> he probably threw that in just to make you think there's an option besides the police

That's what I thought, too. For some reason, scammers often have high social intelligence. Maybe it's like with any other domain: if you understand how computers work, you are compelled to use computers a lot. If you understand how people work, you must be compelled to use people?

> That is like saying Ernie and Bert are gay.

It turns out that they are not gay, but not because it's inconceivable to children. They just aren't gay. (http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Are_Ernie_and_Bert_gay%3F)

The point is being able to see the menu bar (with the current date/time etc.) without hovering the mouse over it.

It's not that they're bad at what they do with computers. It's just what they do with computers is not worth doing.

Summary: When people are good at what they do, they don't mistake the author for another person and are able to discuss intelligent topics while working.

However, since only one age value can be actually correct in this case, the use of logic looks less like a feature of the programmer's mind and more like a bug.

I'm amazed at how quickly Pokémon have taken over the world. The stories, the hype, the crazy projects, they're everywhere.

I wonder what it's like for the developers to work on a project and then see it succeed like that.

If your only worry is malware, vanilla iOS is probably OK. But malware is not the only problem they're trying to solve.

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

Also, strangely enough (not being a Harry Potter fan), I immensely enjoyed Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

Unfortunately, this looks like a localization bug that will probably be fixed soon.

I'm not sure how to describe this in rigorous Bayesian terms, but things usually happen in patterns. When we make inferences, we cannot ignore the context.

Based on the recent history of violence in France, is it more likely that a mass killing committed by a Franco-Tunisian (who are mostly Muslims) on a clearly suicide mission is related or is not related to islamic terrorism? Better yet (since money does have a tendency to clear the mind), what would you bet $100 on?

I'm not saying that we don't need facts. We still have to confirm everything, and strange unlikely things do happen. But at the same time, we cannot act as if we are completely ignorant until we get substantial evidence.

> The driver has been identified locally as a 31-year-old man of Franco-Tunisian origin (http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-36799172)

There's not much evidence yet, but also not much doubt.

It's disturbing that in the age when we can manipulate atoms, we still cannot do anything about religious fanaticism, and about religion itself for that matter.

One might think that mankind is just a bunch of stupid monkeys that happen to be very good with tools.