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That's how you end up with echo chambers and parallel online universes.

That's the core of the author's argument. Protobuffers optimize for something besides usability and maintainability, because Google cares more about incremental performance than de…

Technically, there might have been N>2 parties involved in the switcheroo. Someone expecting the antenna received shirts, someone expecting X received the antenna, someone expectin…

15 minutes of synchronous time waiting at the store versus 1 week of asynchronous time while you live your life though.

Tweets have the side effect of being public. Sometimes that becomes the main effect. Emails and the rest of your examples don't have that property.

Not sure about Android phones with "Ok Google" but on iOS, all of Siri's voice processing is on the device. As opposed to Amazon Alexa which sends the data to the cloud for process…

> You can't stop market forces. Surely you can, we do it all the time. That's why we have subsidies on American sugar and tariffs on Chinese steel and higher taxes on cigarettes th…

The EmDrive claimed to violate conservation of momentum. To extend your analogy, instead of shining the light out the back of your spacecraft, you shined it inside the spacecraft a…

The BLS calculator ( https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm ) says $400 in 2013 is ~ $430 today. Seems unlikely to account for that much of the change.

No robot, no robot. You're the robot!

You're probably being sarcastic but I think the parent meant Curriculum Vitae. Making technical decisions based on what will look good on your resume instead of what's the best way…

Who is setting back self-driving tech? Law enforcement who are trying to keep real people safe? Or Uber by being their cavalier selves about safety standards?

The market should correct that though. Those companies will (should) quickly run out of money to invest. While those who pick the ones with the right 10 year plan will (should) hav…

At the absolute bare minimum, hit the brakes and reduce the impact. An attentive human driver would have at least started to hit the brakes. The software should have had plenty of …

I believe it's the first "third-party" death.

At what point is it no longer a gift though? What if I write a contract with Boeing where I "gift" them $X million dollars and they "gift" me a brand new jumbo jet? Do you think th…

They could also call out the flip side though, right? Dropbox could negotiate deals with the ISPs to "box out" smaller competitors. Maybe it costs them upfront but it also solidifi…

I agree. Zero out the stockholders and send some executives to prison for negligence and fraud. The corporate death penalty is the only way we'll see companies take infosec serious…

That has been Matt Levine's thesis for a while, "Private markets are the new public markets". The public markets used to be the biggest source of capital, subject to stringent rule…

Would it be possible to do a 1-time verification, and then throw away the data? Twitter needs to see a driver's license or passport once, not keep a scan of it.

> and if it isn't a fraud it will stay right where it is I'm not actually qualified to give investing advice. But this part isn't strictly true. In a functioning market, the price …

If 100 million of them were stolen you could also imagine that decreasing demand.

Without being too crude, a female professional athlete probably has some physical attributes that help out during something like a routine speeding stop.

Oh, like LIBOR! That's always worked perfectly, hasn't it?