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It's partially babysitting. But also waiting for them to mature. They might make a great mechanic, truck driver or factory worker, all valid good and required jobs, but at 13-14 it…

There are social pressures why a kid wouldn't want to move between tracks. All their friends are there. They may also want to avoid moving to a higher track to avoid teasing from c…

The people who run today's society use the creations of yesterday's gifted and motivated, along with their own, important, incremental updates. The people who create tomorrow's soc…

In generality they might believe the law will catch up to them. However, they would have chosen to steal bread from this store this time because it would minimize getting caught. B…

While punishment may lead to justice it is not required for justice to take place. What is required is accountability, rehabilitation and restitution. The current focus from the pu…

Prisons don't deter crime. They might give the impression of deterrence to honest individuals. However, I think everyone in prison believed they had a scheme, process, or system in…

I wish a similar system also existed for account recovery instead of being stonewalled by customer service I might be able to recover some years old accounts

Adversarial compatibility is a good thing for users. If the site doesn't want to implement what your extension would do then either they will try to shake you down, buy you out, or…

I shared the content of an email I sent out to a few different groups the other day here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36888156&p=2#36889971 There were some reasonable crit…

The original reCAPTCHA, with two words: It knew the answer to one of the words and didn't know the other. At one point some users were inserting purposefully wrong answers or slurs…

Bundling of SaaS apps would be a great idea. OAuth might one way to enable it. Instead of logging in via Google/Facebook/Apple you could login via "SaaSBundler", this would registe…

Getting the internet archive onboard would be a good start. They have a legitimate interest in automating crawling of sites. It could also hinder pentesters hired to test the owner…

Here is a copy of a letter I have sent out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36889971 Basically my arguments were it's anti-competitive, against the open web, and a risk to coun…

I tried to put it in language and terms anyone could understand while building up terminology. Maybe I need to rethink the audience. In the emails I sent I did use judicious format…

Not sure that it is in Sony's case. But creating patents for anti-user ideas, where you don't intend on using them, locks the idea away for at least a while, and could be seen as p…

This is the content of a email I have sent to a number of politicians, government agencies, and consumer advocacy groups. You are welcome to use as is, reformat or modify as you se…