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I think we kind of know. I mean, wolves and dog like creatures live along side humans all over the world. They hunt with us and eat what we leave behind and we use things or did fo…

First of all, I really like it. I think it is nice. Some questions, then some thoughts, and some prognostications. What is the OpenID box? I don't know what to put there. I don't h…

Depends on the woman, but in a crowd of 20 men and women, the self-aggrandizing male is almost guaranteed a ride home.

If they put it to a shareholder vote and everyone decides leaving china is good that is fine. If they make a vote among a few insiders at the top and leave china and then it turns …

Google's board and executives have a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders to do what is in the best interest of shareholders -- not Chinese dissidents. It doesn't matter if…

If one were to set out on such a path and accomplish the goal out of hobby or desire to learn a new language, or for whatever reason, how long would something like that take? How l…

It's a matter of privacy. You have created this feature to reward participation, but someone who should be receiving that reward is telling you it is actually a curse. It may be a …

Google doesn't give you the best answers, they give you the last answer someone else chose. That's how google works, because google believes the best answer is the one after which …

Not really. It just means that when people type "How do I" in front of a search and then click on a link with how do i and then whatever it was, then google picked the right result…

Empathy for athletes during competition is an evolved phenomenon that aids the assimilation of useful hunting and fighting skills for the audience.

ANSI SQL and configuration changes everywhere you need them to be flexible.

Mhm, this was the state of the industry the last time I checked. I suppose it would be easier to take an existing laptop and replace the parts...

The same reason I built my own workstation. The same reason I build servers. Because you can build better equipment and gain an intimate understanding of the system so if something…

It's like one people saying "I don't want to use guns, because they are difficult to understand and I can do bad things with them." Meanwhile, the people who are taking the time to…

What if, like physics, each "improvement" to mankind has an equal and opposite negative impact on the world? If we think about benefit and harm, these are usually with respect to e…

I don't think you have to be an evolutionary biologist to understand it or find patterns in evolution across timescales. Hawking is a brilliant man and I'm sure he knows a lot of s…

is there a reasonable way to build ones own laptop these days?

There’s always some ratio of developers working for monetary benefit to those working their way up. Additionally, the corporates can depress wages by pointing to plenty of inexpens…

first sentence of the article: Courier is a real device, and we've heard that it's in the "late prototype" stage of development. So It's at least a prototype

It would be nice, for automation, to standardize information locations. For example, the standard logo for a company could always be at http://website.com/images/logo.png Perhaps t…