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> If you are operating under the presumption that the government is always a bad-faith actor, then we have much, much bigger problems.

It needn't be "always", just (perceived as) too often. It seems fair to say the broad sentiment is that the national security arms of U.S. government have broached that barrier.

I'm curious how this will perform in the real world since humans also cannot see the lane markings but, unlike the system described in the article, do not refer to stored or ad hoc environment mapping and instead operate on an entirely improvised "lanes by consensus".

“In the future, people are going to be wearing more electronics..."

Are they though?

"useless as you are"?

Are you so unhappy with your life that you have to tear others down to feels better?

why would you say that to someone.

So sad.

Wow. Sad.

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Fuck it, I don't give a shit. It's painfully lazy headline writing like every other commercial site on the web and it has made Hacker News as fucking useless as the articles it links to...

Came to comment specifically with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

If you require so many peripherals concurrently, why would you consider a notebook?

Incorrect, but, ultimately, I don't give a fuck.

We should just remain comfortably cocooned in our contextual containers.

No, I suppose you're right. That's not at all fascinating to consider...

Incidentally, the news from Prague 70 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Bombing_of_Prague

What about a Bandcamp+Vimeo partnership?

I understand his educational status. But my point was, for example, dismissing an idea suggested by a child simply because the idea came from a child, not on a qualitative basis.

Clearly higher learning institutions can, have, and do serve an important role in modern society. As one would expect from a concentrated collection of intelligent, educated people.

Maybe it's not a new phenomenon and just indicative of the information age, but there seems to be a trend where they—large reputable institutions that would have previously been a source of innovative ideas—have become increasingly been a source of suppression (subjugation, even?) of enterprising, forward-thinkers who upset the status quo.

Don't get caught.

And make sure there's no one above you when you do.

There's just something wrong with a system when a "a third-year medical student and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute scholar" is considered "lowly status."

Years of innovative thinking from highly intelligent individuals wasted by tenured illusions of grandeur and beaten into institutional submission to serve the status quo...

Geez, spoiler aler... never mind...

Use your Freelancer portfolio to get contract work with agencies. They tend to fancy themselves one stop shops for clients and you can capitalize on that.

No, their motivations are far more varied and far less clear.

While I certainly don't subscribe to anything so foolish as wholesale dismissal of the entire establishment, it's not as if every medical professional came out of a factory with no bias, flaws, or even fully developed critical thinking skills.

I admire the idea of transparency on principle but wonder how practical it is long term or under likely scenarios in the future of a company.

And I wonder how that profit compares to similar businesses? And if it is sustainable? (Just to start...)

A quick search provides some rough "data" on other small businesses: "The average net profits of a small manufacturing wood products business, with $2 million in revenue annually, according to the website "Biz Stats," is 14.56 percent per year. Medical equipment and suppliers, with $2 million in revenue, have a net profit margin of 26.95 percent annually. By contrast, computer and electronics products return a net profit of 53.94 percent, and the food processing sector, according to "Biz Stats," has a net profit margin of 10.28 percent." (http://smallbusiness.chron.com/average-profit-margin-small-b...)