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The problem when you start throwing around empathy alongside such concepts as 'helping' abusers 'mend their ways' is that one rather feels that anyone whose views do not rather clo…

Isn't that essentially what Cortana, Siri and whatever that Google assistant (Google Now?) are supposed to be? They don't seem to work very well atm.

I agree with forest, someone should not be penalised for answering a question honestly.

Roles can help to keep conversations civil when the participants are benign as well as malign by removing communication friction. For malign actors they make it easier to pick out …

> Would it make it worse (easier to get drugs) or better (less stigma about treatment). That may not be as binary as it seems on idle reflection. There certainly are drugs that use…

Yes, because some people's utility functions are strongly inimical to other's likely happiness. It will be feudalism all over again, with vastly higher stakes. If you have a bunch …

> Would you stay at a company in whose purpose you don't believe, if you liked your manager? There are a couple of people on my current project whose company I enjoy and who have p…

Despite checking email what appears to be abnormally infrequently, I wonder how prevalent setups like freehunter's are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10736086

22.7%, according to the forbes quote that my search engine serves me. - I shan't bother to view their article, for obvious reasons.

One danger is that driver B will respond by driving without taking out insurance if it becomes too expensive. Which would leave people in a bad situation when he finally runs someo…

> Please in the future consider the concept of rhetorical license. I considered it, but I didn't grant it since it was not clear that it applied - nor for like discussions would it…

> [P]eople will continue to pick the "no Evil/no privacy" option If that was an available option, it would be fine. I'd choose no evil and no privacy because I'd know that my infor…

What evanpw seems to be suggesting grows faster than you might think. There's a neat story on that point: http://mathforum.org/sanders/geometry/GP11Fable.html

If it's a mass of stats or something like that, I'll fire up a flash card program. If it's something more abstract, an important concept or the like, then I'll try to apply it to s…

Mmm. There's a connotation with shields that they are just as you say, protective in nature. There's consequently a negative association with their removal. However, the person's s…

As long as I can get the data, it's fine. What I'd be worried about would be if apps become the only way that an end user can get access to information about their environment. Tha…

The article's title is bad but the core of it seems to be that IFF there's a perceived desires/offers mismatch on the part of the employee, then that employee will investigate the …

The piece given here is how she would look at a CV of that pattern - and as far as it goes that's fair enough. Personally if I see you with a four to eight year gap on your CV my f…

> If you have your heart set on seeing the Pyramids but get frustrated at the Egyptian visa process, are you really willing to settle for, say, Lebanon? No, but I'm probably willin…

> Why is it more likely that we're going to develop superintelligent autonomous insect drones than we are to annihilate ourselves with human-controlled mechanical systems, as we've…

It's a long shot gamble funded by some people who maybe should and maybe shouldn't know better - I don't pretend to be in a position to judge the science in this case. So, who care…

> Because I'm not taking anything for granted. You seem to be taking that progress ('Towards what?' one is tempted to ask) has value in and of itself for granted.

Maybe we'll finally get some interesting processor architectures. The race for ever more speed has its reasons, but it's not been built on a particularly helpful abstraction layer.…

The cost to OP is all the opportunities they don't take in the mean time and whatever mental cost they're paying by persisting in a horrible environment. It might be worth it if th…

In all the successful companies I've ever worked in/with, there have been different sub-cultures depending on what role you were fulfilling and what team you were part of. I suspec…