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I'm also wondering why this kind of intervention is necessary at all. The NoSQL solution we use at work has load based automatic splitting, and I'd have thought (though I haven't c…

> suggesting American's do something inferior to other countries No, it very clearly is only suggesting that Americans are doing something inferior compared to the ideal.

Roger, but I'm talking about how it was announced months ago at Google IO, not this current announcement.

It was announced many months ago. I'm using this opportunity to talk about how unfortunate it is that we announced it so long ago and are only launching it now. I'm not saying this…

Cool. Unfortunately I can't use it because I have this nervous tic where I click all over the page randomly.

My thing is, whatever happened to Google just launching things without announcing them? They still do it for features, but no longer for products. Maybe it's something you can't do…

> Of course that would 'give away' . . . Meh, I have trouble believing that spammers cannot experiment to find this number out themselves. The binary search on rate would require o…

That is extraordinarily unlikely. I can't think of more than one or two big products that have ever been totally shut down as a result of patent infringement. It simply is not done…

I guess you are a Motorola shareholder or something? If not, is this likely to harm you in any way?

You might benefit from rereading this article. http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/09/how-to-read-a-patent-...

I always thought so too, but it was surprisingly much less than this at my local Fry's. I didn't opt to buy, but these services ran in the $200-400 range there, IIRC.

> Why can't we get interfaces right? We have all this processing speed available and yet our computers are slow. My computer is not slow. I rarely see issues like a cursor that is …

On the contrary, almost all of Facebook's data is stored in SQL systems. Cassandra and such were developed as ephemeral stores for certain types of data, like lists of people who "…

Maybe. On the other hand, people do things every day for the love of it that get little traction in the market place. It seems more likely this confluence is just a coincidence.

I agree that it's not about competing to see who can be the biggest victim. I doubt most women wish to be victimized in any way at all. Nonetheless, considering women have been opp…

I can think of a few ways they continue to be discriminated against: - More likely to be the victim of a rape. - Representation in the media. http://bechdeltest.com/ I'm sure there…

Sure, but there are already a number of machines you can do that with. I'm sure there is some reason to do this, but I can't think of many good ones.

A rare moment of clarity, maybe? Let's stick to things we can do for a profit?

Temporary overcorrection seems more equitable than a longer time before reaching true equality. I.e. this[1] is OK. Or, even better, in this image[2] we prefer the light blue line …

That is too bad. I bought one of their games too, and I thought it was definitely worth the money I spent on it.

That sounds nice, but I'd appreciate some concreteness. Personally I don't think "history" has much to teach you unless you are a general, world leader, or someone who likes learni…

Why would there be?

The only one I disagree with is: "You care far more about current nearby events than similar distant or past/future events." That just seems rational to me. I spend more time devel…

There are already jumplists for other applications. That's what I was asking about.