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They may be lottery winners, but you have to buy a ticket to play. Maybe the goal of stories like this is to inspire people to try, even if winning is very unlikely people have to play for there to be some winners.

AI is good for rules based systems, but most of the worlds problems that need to be solved don't have rules in the same way a board game does. Sure it's cool that a computer beat a human at a board game, but thats like celebrating a penguin being better at fishing than a person with bare hand

AI is good for rules based systems, but most of the worlds problems that need to be solved don't have rules in the same way a board game does.

Sure it's cool that a computer beat a human at a board game, but thats like celebrating a penguin being better at fishing than a person with bare hands.

Likely the sense of saving has been erased from most peoples minds.

I bought one of those in Japan, unfortunately it doesn't fit my current toilet.

Spellcheck used to be a problem for me, but over time my muscle memory has improved and it has become easier to type words (ask me to spell a word and ill have no idea). Sometimes my spelling is so off spellcheck doesn't give me options, but putting it into google usually helps, googles guessing algorithm is better than most spellchecks it seems.

This is certainly a cool effect, but as someone with dyslexia I've never experienced text like this.

Blind users don't need to use a mouse, they can use (tabbing or double swiping). This is why web accessibility is so important, and while relatively easy to implement the basics, most developer seem to skip it or forget it.

Screen reader accessibility can be archived by coding pages in clean and standards based HTML. alt attributes are basic, but often are missing or have unclear text. Form elements need to be properly labelled, links need clear descriptions etc.

I agree that screen readers aren't the greatest technology, but the truth is developers of websites and applications aren't doing their part to make their products accessible.

JAWS seems to be the standard big businesses target, it costs around $1000.

Although NVDA is free, its not as high a priority for some reason.

Isn't a simpler explanation that innovative people have unique experiences, or experiences outside the norm? Immigrants, college dropouts, people with parents from other countries, people with learning disabilities etc, etc, all have different life experiences from the norm, thus they see things differently and have the ability to come up with different ideas (innovate).

That sounds reasonable.

There could be informal conspiracy, take the 2008 financial crisis. Everyone was working in their own self-interest, and there were thousands of them doing it. From the outside it could look like they were working together to some nefarious ends.

I've read that incorporation isn't worth the effort and cost if the business makes less than 60k, maybe this is a hidden cost in some of these situations.

I don't understand the the trend these days to disprove conspiracy theories as a category. Obviously some conspiracy theories are true and most of them are false.

That said conspiracy theories are based around areas where a complete knowledge is not available. The description of the problem maybe correct, but the motivations of the parties involved wrong. To discredit an idea simply because it is a conspiracy theory is illogical.

I'm also Canadian, a high school teacher told me a whole bunch of students got suspended for selling weed brownies at school. He also said a girl got suspend for being drunk around the same time.

The law hardly matter in these cases, people do what they will do. If edibles are illegal kids will just make them at home.

I agree that there is something more beyond the cheap money, however it is possible that the cheap money, combined with a few bad actors has driven up the prices.

Say one or two houses sell way over market value, that drives up the price of all the houses in the neighbourhood. If that happens a few times you have massive price increases fueled by easy access to money.

I live in Toronto, 10 years ago a house in the suburbs may have been affordable for someone like me, now they are hugely over priced. I could make a 5% downpayment and have a mortgage till the day I die, but that doesn't seem reasonable to me.

Maybe rational buyers have been priced out of the market?

I want to read this article but the colours and white text on black background is too painful. Does anyone know how to read this in normal colours?

Yeah, they kind of won. Also they were one of the famous firms in Toronto, Canada.

My original STEM degree (Biology) was pretty unless, my second STEM degree (Web Dev) has paid off much better.

Maybe they are building something like those in eye projectors that were featured in a couple of episodes of Black Mirror.

Some people don't change their lifestyle and save the extra income they make.

I agree with your suggestion that "both sides tend to suffer from a tendency to not actually care about the truth."

Alex Jones jumps on any possible conspiracy, debunkers write off every suggestion as a 'conspiracy theory' so that they don't have to investigate.

Free-trade moved manufacturing over seas, but the types of industry that grew domestically required fewer workers with greater skill sets.

Free trade has certainly caused problems, but domestic efficiency improvements have exaggerated those problems.

Serious reading is best with a book, but news and quick reads are ok on a screen.

These days I find I can focus much better with a physical book, maybe I've trained myself. With digital reading I'm automatically in skim mode - though I might be obtaining a broader sense of knowledge.

That quote was strange to me too, but for another reason, reading is a solitude activity, the point is to think for yourself.

I sent a letter from Japan to Canada for 70 cents. Sending the same letter from Canada to Japan would cost at least $2.50

China must simply have cheaper shipping rates, obviously not 3 cents, but probably a fraction of what you are used to spending.