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4-5 seconds on your machine? Check for a button usually next to the power button on the CPU labeled “turbo” and give it a click. Might help.

Personally, I'm kind of amused by the appalled and horrified tech bloggers I see posting about the sky falling. I keep reading about "life long" Apple users threatening to switch e…

It appears that the Startup/issuer sets a static offering price [0]. When I envision how crowdsourced investing would reinvent this space, a huge component of the value added would…

Neither of those two features have been released by Apple.

Am I misunderstanding you? SF's legendary rent control creates a clear incentive for landlords to use a service like Airbnb to continually rent at market rate (though lower occupan…

WPEngine, who were just recently compromised and only finally announced 2FA less than two weeks ago... Other than that, I don't disagree with your point. :)

Really? If a well-funded superpac would systematically and indefinitely try every legal exploit to re-enact slavery you'd be grinning each attempt because "democracy"? .... The ide…

It's disgusting that we treat humans like this. A reasonable person can understand perspectives on both sides of many contemporary hot topics, but I see no such leeway here. Isn't …

I don't disagree with you. I'm not being an Apple apologist, just commenting why from their viewpoint it makes sense to bring the very best features into the fold of standard, nati…

A big part of Apple's product appeal is the ecosystem, and a big part of the ecosystem is that amazing features simply work, and work well. They don't have to be configured or hunt…

That's right. However, there are still indexes, even if they aren't necessary for traversal. Ideally you'll use an index to find a start node and traverse on from there (or in the …

Index-free-adjacency. There are myriad pros/cons between graph/relational/nosql, but to me, a "real" graph db will have index free adjacency, allowing it to do deep traversals (fri…

Perhaps the average user is more tech and social-tech savvy now than then. That would be my guess. It feels like there are a lot of things now that seem intuitive that would've bee…

VERY interesting. Thanks for posting. I wasn't familiar with CALEA. For clarity, a CALEA type approach wouldn't compel a company to ACTIVELY subvert their own systems (as in Apple …

Ha - thanks. :) I'll watch it. But I'm specifically asking here because I'm trying to understand and learn from the rational arguments. There's never a challenge finding inflammato…

Thanks for writing - The 'legal warrants' part that you said is interesting. I'm not sure I'd heard that thought clearly articulated. The idea that when a legal warrant is issued t…

Can someone ELI5 a typical opinion in support of the Government's case? I've read through various comments and I haven't seen a concise opinion in favor and am genuinely curious. D…

Very well put!

It's not that specific. It's everywhere. I see it all the time in programming terminology. There are technical terms that annoy me when I first hear them. It appears people are try…

I'm intrigued by the idea/necessity of some "non-omniscience" factor in weighing 4th amendment cases moving forward. The argument is always that they're only tracking the "same vie…

A lottery ticket doesn't buy a chance, it buys a pleasant daydream. It buys a mental escape hatch. It buys the 'what would I do' game for another week. A movie costs $12 in a theat…

I can't help but think politics whenever I read an article like this. Invariably, I always end up at the same place: Human governance structures are complicated. On one hand, we ha…

Please make sure your loops converge. I read and modified this paragraph 3,984 times and then crashed.

I agree. That's a great little writeup - thanks for posting it.