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I'm surprised no one has brought up lead - childhood lead exposure leads to more rash behavior, and the drop in teen pregnancy starts roughly when the first children who were born …

Incremental computation is an interesting idea, and could be very useful to big data processing. However, the particular incremental technique of self-adjusting computation has two…

The car has many fewer limitations on its peripheral vision when checking hazards because it has dozens of sensors all over the car, as opposed to the humans' very limited eyesight…

Maybe these are personal problems? I use Google Maps on the web all the time, and have never seen it hang. As for finding directions: there's a search box, you type in an address, …

I agree with the overall point of the responses that Google isn't in fact evil to be doing this, but I want to disagree somewhat with one point - the idea that Google doesn't have …

To be clear, I'm not saying that Google should break the law. Instead, I'm saying that it's clearly the case that there are some bad laws in the world, and that its perfectly reaso…

So then I suppose Google should have just given in to the Chinese government's demands for censorship, or the US government's demands for access to private data?