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If companies like Apple didn't try to make things as incompatible as possible, maybe software engineers wouldn't have to keep adding new layers of abstraction and things would run …

It seems very relevant because the military was apparently completely unprepared for biological warfare. Like in all their talk of terrorism they hadn't even considered the possibi…

Without being any kind of copyright expert, this argument doesn't make much sense. If you have the relevant indices into pi, I guess you could claim copyright. The index will be mu…

Seems to me the real problem is people in the same row who don't board together, since frequently someone has to squeeze back into the isle and block things until their neighbor is…

That seems fair to me because it results in a tax based on how much the property is worth to you specifically. The "value" may be inflated from real market value, but as long as th…

I think our emotional responses exist to guide us towards good decisions. If you take a reinforcement learning system and you always give it positive reinforcement, it will not lea…

It's a setting, you can keep the soft buttons if you like.

I think people forgot that a 10 year old car means 2009. Newer cars are still safer, sure, but that's easily recent enough for good crumple zones, strong pillars and plenty of air …

This is actually weird to me. It seemed like it should be possible to stamp out bicycle frames like a car, so I researched it. Such a bike does exist, but is extremely expensive, w…

So binary search is not logn time because it only reads logn values from the input? To know which parts are not read you basically have to run the algorithm. I find your definition…

Internal combustion engines throw off heat whether you want them to or not, plus the total amount of energy stored in a gas tank is vastly greater than a battery, so wasting some o…

Funny you mention magsafe, because that was defective too. They settled a class action but didn't actually fix anything. It would slowly toast it's own cable (probably due to dust …

I think you are asking the wrong questions. Why not ask: Why are there so many men in tech? To answer that I would compare it to a field like finance, where people are well paid an…

Feel free, it exists to be read. And you just gained a subscriber.

If anyone has a tougher path planning problem and needs a better heuristic, I wrote an article a few years ago that might help: http://razorcode.net/articles/vehicle-path-planning.…

I tried finding data on insurance payout/refusal rate when I was considering switching to a cheaper but lesser known car insurance company. It doesn't seem to exist. So much for co…

Look at big cities around the world and you'll find buildings with retail at the bottom and office space further up. I don't think it would be an issue, unless you stroll around th…

Redistributing money from people who use more to people who use less is an incentive to use less. It can be an arbirarily large incentive depending on how much you decide to redist…

If that's true, then in Manhattan the cars should go. Even as a pedestrian it is frustrating to wait for cars at the end of every short block. I'm not sure how gridlock is helping …

If Grandma needs subsidized housing, that is something that should be separately agreed upon and implemented, presumably from tax revenue. The idea of forcing landlords to pay that…

This is the kind of thing that needs an institution (government or not) because otherwise the money goes to the most convincingly miserable looking people, not the ones in need. It…

I think they've got the evolutionary argument backwards. Rather than the older generation aging and dying because there is some evolutionary reason why they should, I think there i…

24/7 "service". Sometimes I feel like I'm stuck in the middle of a tunnel just so some middle manager can claim that the line is still running. I would prefer they closed the thing…

Some tips, just in case they help. When disabling apps, you can generally ignore the warning that other apps may break. Do not disable Google play services, though. Also, go into t…

That's intentionally misleading. If it's not largely accurate the disclaimer should be "inspired by".