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You are responding to a parent poster who wants "society ... to change its ways regarding transacting". They are directly arguing that society is wrong and needs fixing. You cannot…

This is the best comment so far, because it helps others understand the other 400 comments so far. What I'm seeing play out is a lot of smart people defending their tribe the only …

Thank you for taking the time to run the numbers. Your parent poster stuck out as obviously wrong based on high-school math.

My undergrad thesis advisor, Bill McKeeman, wrote his parsers in this fashion. I implemented a parser using this model and extended its existing lexer. The token stream is an array…

According to a recent report, the NSA has thousands of partner companies. If there really are thousands of partners, then the NSA has seriously scaled up their ability to process i…

When arbitrary limits like "18+ years old to get paid to report bugs" come up, I look first to the legal system for blame. Consider that these bug bounties are going to be filed wi…

"I refuse to understand addiction." Gotcha!

> Nope, it's bullshit, just like badgar's half ounce-a-week descent into ruin. Excuse me ? First of all, nothing I described was "descent into ruin." I said I'm having a hard time …

Nobody in this thread knows what they're talking about. You might as well have said "As entertainment, food is no worse or distracting than television." Look, not everybody gets ad…

Yep, Galaxy Nexus here and it is completely unresponsive to any interaction whatsoever.

> Problem? The problem is you aren't sticking with the narrative folks here are comfortable with. This particular Internet forum assumes Google has zero support, even though this i…

What's up with Peter Norvig's comment at the bottom? Did he not RTFA? He suggests a solution that the article criticizes heavily halfway through.

The last I've heard of this was 2 years ago, an article in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/24/110124fa_fact_... At that point, it was ~40% of revenue and…

Random is incorrect.

That's because it's Google Now, not Google Planner. It's for giving you information relevant to right now. You don't plan to use Google Now for something, you check it when you wan…

> You can't be sure if a card will appear for flights In my experience, Google Now finds my flights in my Gmail 100% of the time. For at least a dozen flights across the US. And fo…

You buy expensive makes then, I really hope you know that you're way above what most people spend on cars. Most cars don't have those chips yet. The only sort of mainstream car I'v…

He had root, so he could have instead installed a rootkit, which can hide the existence of processes from all of userland. In a graduate OS class I took, we had an assignment to do…

> uptime percentages are a useless measure Uptime is only useless if you don't care about high availability. Many startups don't, but Google sure does.

Whenever I go to bed early, I wake up for the best hour or two of my life around midnight. Good to know I'm in working order.

When people don't argue in good faith, I think it's more important to make sure others following along see so and aren't misled by FUD and ignorance. I value that over being sensit…

IANAL, but cell phone calls are encrypted, and I'm pretty damn sure you need a warrant to legally decrypt a cell phone conversation over the air. But I bet you wouldn't need a warr…

> Google offers support for exactly one product (adwords). Since this a bald-faced lie, my unpleasantness is clearly warranted. You are clearly deriving arguments from a predetermi…

Generally, we consider a service being too expensive to be a good reason for a company not to offer that service. So not offering a service might be evidence that said service is t…