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Yeah, you have to think that was a joke, right? Can you imagine the headlines, "Google Drone kills 7 on Somali border"

And I don't get why they should use Bitcoin. You're trying to secure your data, not obfuscate your financial transactions.

I think the point was that now that so much of our interactions take place through our phone it is very easy to migrate to new platforms. Think of how quickly Snapchat or Instagram…

I started out using vim because when I first looked at it and emacs, vim seemed like the more elegant of the two. I tried both out one afternoon, and the commands in vim made more …

Just a nit-picky thing, but I thought it would be nice to get a heads-up. In the third sentence of the first paragraph it should be "your senators" rather than "you're senators"

The only problem I see with this is that value isn't always proportional to time. Sometimes I spend a long time reading an article because it is written in an inscrutable style and…

See how that entry says "usu. with negative or in questions"? The usage in this case is neither negative nor a question, and so many, like the gp and myself, found it confusing.

A similar thing happened to me. I picked it up, read 200-300 pages and thought I could see where the book was going but found that it took such an agonizingly long time to reach it…

Ah, thanks for that info, I wasn't aware that the time from development to deployment was that low now.

My guess would be this is more for capital reasons than legal ones. It is extremely expensive to form a company of either type. I think the standard drug pipeline costs somewhere b…

I've heard that almost the entire flight can be/is automated now, including the landing and that most commercial pilots have to land the planes by hand just so they can keep their …

Thanks for the awesome reply! I think you've just convinced me to check out Haskell more thoroughly at the next chance I get. Edit: It's great that you mention OCaml's module syste…

I'm curious what advantages you think Haskell has over ML/Ocaml. I'm pretty familiar with OCaml and like it a lot, and Haskell seems to be very similar, but I haven't used it for a…

I think the difference is we all come in contact with writing every day. So literacy is required if you want to get around in the world and if you want to communicate with others. …

Over the past week or so I've seen a lot of food and diet related articles make the front page, and in the comments everyone is going on about how great their favorite diet is and …

No, they are ranked by their peers.

Have you tried using Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji"? I have never tried to learn Japanese, but I have heard very good things about using this book to learn the Kanji.

This is why you get a lawyer. So they can explain that almost no one gets anything close to the maximum sentence. See this post for more information http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/1…

You can actually still go in the cockpit on commercial airlines, just not during the flight. Before or after the flight the pilots are usually happy to show you the cockpit.

I think people are willing to take criticism much better when it is phrased in a respectfully way, rather than an "I'm right you're wrong, here let me prove it" perspective. The OP…

I agree. It is pretty timely that this article was posted around the same time when almost half the front page is covering the same topic.

I think this would be very nice in an ebook or other long form writing where I need to backtrack to find some earlier reference. Where it doesn't work well is in hierarchical data …

I don't think this is true. I follow tech trends fairly closely, but I use very few of the consumer tech startups, with the exception of Spotify, which was created in Sweden. Those…

I'm not really sure why this is being downvoted. At least with a firing squad the person dies nearly instantly. The anticipation may be slightly worse however.