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I agree. People who don't understand need to know that big / Retina displays are not accessible to people who, let's say it, are poor immigrant geniuses who only have access to a 1…

> Just because systems exist today that are bringing to your attention every single problem known to man doesn't mean you need to be involved in the solutions that are above your p…

That is odd indeed. I had the opposite experience a few years ago when I had a broken iPhone. I tried to give my account (iCloud) password but the clerk (Genius) stopped me and sai…

I would go with something outside the US. Like Mullvad (cheap + same-day email support) or / AirVPN (better UI, slightly more expensive). If you go on reddit.com/r/VPN you'll find …

Setting your wake-up time isn't enough? I am new to Flux but unless they introduced this feature in the last 6 days, I don't understand your critique.

I disagree. This is an analysis piece. Its arguments are properly supported.

I disagree for a very simple reason: Screening is not being carried out properly. http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/01/politics/tsa-failed-undercover... I think we suffer from authority b…

Why is it rubbish? Would you please elaborate?

> this is clearly motivated by economical considerations more than security. Can you elaborate?

Privacy is weighed against public safety all the time. The question is at which point does it become unreasonable. Warrantless searches of American individuals just so happens to b…

I'm surprised most people don't think like this. I think that we have a cultural problem. People chose to take out loans for their tertiary education because of our beliefs in the …

As a percentage, how many US colleges would you say are excluded from the opportunities provided by "rigorous course of study"? Would you say you could get this kind of rigorous st…

Well, like you said, it really depends on what you'll be doing. Granted, there are different paths one's trajectory will take, and you won't know them in advance. On the other hand…

None. At least not on the first 9 months. Mostly it has been about performance, data structures, algorithms, and time complexities. So far, the first part (9 months) the focus is m…

This may or may not scale but I've been lucky to be part of a startup program that roughly matches your description of a "better option". It's a 2-year program; I was, and still am…

Interesting. Your use of `git commit -am` resounded with me. I can't stand doing `git add .` ; `git commit -m "message"`; `git push`. I aliased "commit" to "ci" in git-config, and …

Ironically, Germany is quite strong on privacy laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesdatenschutzgesetz

> It follows that constant enforcement is contingent on constant supervision I think I've found that it's neither necessary nor sufficient. Constant enforcement just means that you…

Yes! In the book Rationality: From AI to Zombies [1], Eliezer Yudkowsky talks about this as the "availability" bias (Chapter 5.) [1] https://intelligence.org/rationality-ai-zombies…

I think people like this were that way before they had kids.

> I think you don't understand the implications here. My knowledge and familiarity with the US and South America more than likely doesn't supersede yours. I think we can agree that…

I think there is an implicit assumption that your last sentence is justification for condoning this type of hacking behavior, when it happens to us. I challenge this. Just because …