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Agree. Also just like in India, if you are crawling around in a traffic jam most of the time what's the point of all that safety? Local cars are designed for local conditions.

I never understood why the Gigafactory is viable with China around. Does this have to do with location of the mines?

How do you know what my corrective ideology is? Without even knowing that or expressing any kind of curiosity about it, just look at the assumptions you are making about me. Social…

Yes. Misguided ignorant people are surrounded by misguided ignorant people. If they are supplied bad info on youtube or on a social network, there is no corrective mechanism. It's …

You mean anyone whom you have interacted with can. If you visit India, I can introduce you to people who spend many hours a day on YouTube without knowing how to read. It's not com…

Most of the underdeveloped world can't and don't get on twitter and make a noise about things they are seeing on YouTube that they might find offensive. The reactions and consequen…

What has changed is speed and scale. If you want to understand what the implications are you need to spend time not with technologists but with ecologists. In nature there is a rea…

Visit a good library. There are really great ones with lovely reading rooms still all over the place. Totally under used and under appreciated imho.

You could call it version 1.0 of the system Neo uses to learn everything about everything in the Matrix :) I don't think NLP is necessary though. If you take a look at the stackove…

Well Zuckerberg in his infinite wisdom is trying to tell you to be a little more like Kim Kardashian or Trump.

It's like the Engineering teams at Google and Facebook have never heard of Microsoft or Sun or Adobe. There are so many lessons (learnt the hard way) in the evolution of .NET, Java…

My comment is not about eliminating the feedback loop. It's about delaying gratification. This is a core feature of any educational system that has arisen across any culture anywhe…

The fix is easy. The root cause is the like/retweet/upvote/view count and the instant gratification it produces. The social networks like FB/Twitter/Youtube benefit greatly from al…

People have been conditioned now for a decade to attach value to their like/retweet/view/karma counts. It's the core piece of the architecture producing the instant gratification h…

I don't know about corporations having all this wrapped up. There is a lot of pressure on them since 2008 plus one leak after another - Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Panama, Switzerlan…

> people will admit they don't know something Trump is working hard on changing that misconception.

It's a long list. Google Paul Kennedy.

Rather than heads rolling what will happen is doubling or tripling of budget requests to safeguard the crown jewels, setting up new battalions of watchmen to watch the watchmen and…

Stone degrades faster than bone? Stone tools have been found that are 2-3 million years old - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_tool

What goes through the minds of the people at the Pentagon who release such info? Do they see this as some achievement?

The craziest story to me is the building of the Colditz Cock - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colditz_Cock

I mostly use it for offline stackoverflow. Open ended offline wiki journeys have happened but I personally think much less. When online there are many more triggers to send one off…

For devs who want to go offline for a bit I recommend Zeal (offline docs) + kiwix (Offline Wikipedia app that also parses stackexchange/stackoverflow dumps) Check their github page…

Centaur chess has been a thing since Deep Blue. I think the problem their future of ai stuff is having is most orgs have no idea which of their zillion problems actually needs this…