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Tens of thousands of dollars total is far less than it costs a company just to moot the question.

A world with smart cables is a dumb world. I want smart devices/adaptors and cheap dumb cables.

That's still distributing a copy. Price is irrelevant

Heliocentricism is not a religious belief.

>The advice for people will be to abstain.

Which is a well-proven failed strategy.

Because _nomap gets 99.999% coverage, and _mappable would get 0.001% coverage.

In the USA we believe that once you turn 18 you are an adult and responsible for yourself, and have no right to blame your upbringing (parents, and schools, and doctors) for any of your mental, health, and economic deficiencies.

And that's the problem with USA.

Often poor means underemployed, not overworked. It's the middle class that have no time.

What do you do with the "negligible" 15-30% of your money?

The bans on fresh foods are due to lobbying by national good companies to regulate against local competitors. It isn't because of citizen complaints.

Bread is the cheapest food. Dairy is heavily subsidized in USA. Pizza is famous because it is the cheapest cooked meal known to cow-owning humanity. McRib literally exists only during times of pork market collapse. This stuff is absolutely cheaper than cooking with vegetables.

Humanity is also immortal and self-modifying, it uses human bodies as the unit of program transfer and modification. Humanity's version is extremely slow, of course, and limited in quantity and quality of copies of a good program.

What if ramanijam was a CS scholar? you would refuse Ramanujan access to this data until after he got into a school program which he would not be able to do without access to this data.

Since nowadays universities are run as start-up accelerators with closed source software, the .edu restriction is antiquated and obnoxious

Male on female sexual harassment is worse per female capita (which is the effect people complain about, whether the realize it or not) wherever women are a smaller minority. This is basic math. It isn't anything special about SV culture beyond that. The base rate of male on female sexual harassment varies locally due to accidents of cultural background history. Having females in positions of power can likely help with that, so it is all tied into the virtuous/vicious cycles that relate to gender imbalance.

And techie women are better than average of raising awareness of problems in their industry, because they know how to Internet.

What's to teach? Everyone knows how to say "stop it." The hard part is feeling safe saying it.

They celebrated by sending spam email to past donors.

Sharecropping literally means farming on someone's land and paying rent.

No, it means that the scientists were incorrect when thet built a model of a dinosaur from fossil, and the actual dinosaurs were smaller than the model predicts.

Amazon deploys huge physical machines sells virtual machines, why would they not charge linearly? Doubling your compute isn't cheaper than selling someone else the same compute as you.

This is just pollution laundering, selling people smug self righteousness.

See also: every give one get one company that way overcharges and then dumps shit noone needs like cheap shoes and and thin socks.

Because Python's philosophy is that the language designers known the one best way to do everything.

Do you think lawyers consume malpractice insurance? Juries and lawsuit winners consume malpractice insurance

Congratulations in advance for when EPIC buys your company and then ruins your product.

Confidentiality is overrated, outside of narrow areas of core tech. A few years ago, Facebook hired a massive fleet of Google experts, and replicated a lot of the tech and open sourced it. But the reason they cause Google competitive trouble is because Google didn't understand the social product and have a culture to build it, not trade secret tech problems.

Another way to look at it: avoid the open/academic community stop doing xrypto research because NSA mathematicians are (secretly) way ahead of them?

"Open" is a different league from proprietary. It doesn't matter that they are behind proprietary. but it matters when they are working on the wrong problems.

Matt is talking about academic who publish papers showing that System X is Y% better than System Z, under completely nonsensical conditions. They aren't advancing the state of the art, they are mapping the terrain of the compost heap, but don't realize it.

OK, mark is going to something bad, then stop doing it to prove how good it is, to convince people to ask for it back. Because it is bad.

It already is a great TED talk. I forget by who.

The punchline is that when yo look at earth from space, the places that don't have visible (artificial) light are the places where innovation is happening, leapfrogging legacy wired infrastructure.

"Manifest Destiny"