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With that framing, I agree. However, I don’t think it needs to be. I’m hoping it’s more that virtual reality is where to go to interact professionally and you’ll take off the goggl…

I’m assuming that running multiple 5-6k monitors will still require multiple cables/ports though. One thunderbolt port per monitor. I’m still waiting for the day we can hook 2 5k m…

Yikes

I generally see that rational applied to whaling only when discussing indigenous populations such as the Inuit in Alaska. They are whaling in small boats and canoes using tradition…

What is your default advice when asked how to become a software developer? Assume that you are trying to be helpful and that the person has no or limited computer science backgroun…

There are two reasons why you should absolutely boil your water instead of purifying with the sun on a backpacking trip. 1. Fuel is light, water is heavy. A liter of water weighs r…

The mathematics standards for Common Core were released in June 2010. So college freshmen this year would have been in 5th grade (seniors in 8th grade) at the earliest when introdu…

This is also why Imodium is included in most thru-hikers first aid kits. It decreases the effects of diarrhea to keep you hydrated long enough to reach civilization if you get giar…

Sure but this is a highly impractical method when you are hiking from dawn to dusk and consuming 1L of the water an hour on a backpacking trip. For most backcountry excursions, wat…

I like this interpretation. It’s been a while since I saw Interstellar, but from my somewhat fuzzy memory of the film, that does seem to resolve everything nicely.

Telcos in the US have localized monopolies. Their customers are a captive audience. The incentive in that situation is for the telcos to wring as much money out of its customers as…

Fair enough and I apologize for adding that assumption. It was unnecessary for making my point and disrespectful to you. I will leave it in for context but please disregard it.

You're right, the Guardian and the Intercept have done some very good investigative journalism in the last few years, particularly around Snowden and the US surveillance state. How…

You may be right, but if so, that is quite a self-defeating and unproductive stance to take. If I accidentally start a fire on my stove, I don't say "screw it" and let my whole hou…

There are comfy media bubbles on both sides of the ideological spectrum and it is a serious problem. It is easy to criticize the other bubble while sitting comfortably in your own …

Your question is a red herring. Of course the owners of news organizations have biases, as do the reporters, editors, readers, and everyone else in society. Sometimes the bias is p…

I would posit that you haven't looked very hard... http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/206

Many people, myself included, have supported the media long before Trump became president. It is easy to forget now, but Obama was also known at times for having an adversarial rel…

I completely agree. It is one thing to give reasonable criticism of a specific incidence of news media misconduct. It is another thing to blanket condemn every news organization ba…

Good catch! Its always good when your typos completely invalidate the argument you are making.

If we are going to go down this road, then very well... Being the descendant of Isildur does not, by birth right, make Aragorn king. When the two kingdoms of the Dunedin were forme…

Thanks so much! This is really exciting.

Oh it can definitely be applied to computer science classes. At my college, most computer science classes had optional lectures and were heavily project based. Some of the slower o…