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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Irony? Filing taxes is a government-imposed obligation for many Americans. Accessing content from a private company is neither an obligation nor a right.

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

This goes beyond just breaking the law. This endangers others' lives.

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

So where has your focus been when it has needed to snap back in?

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

So the benefit is strictly in slow-moving traffic?

And it's never occurred to me that steering wheel torque is an issue. And so many of these processes -- lane centering, not bumping into the car ahead of me -- are subconscious for me at this point, but I've been driving for decades.

May I ask how good is the technology that notices when someone is distracted and forces them to attend to the road?

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

I'm still unclear as to the benefit given that you're required to attend to the road and it detects distracted people in the driver's seat?

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

But if you still need to keep your attention on the road, what is the actual gain?

What else can you be doing that gets past the distraction detection?

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vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

You got the core facts wrong -- Tesla will, in fact, continue to patent their technology. They need to to protect themselves from others.

What Musk did say is, "Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology."

Furthermore he said, "We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla’s position in this regard."

And given that this was posted 3.5 years ago, how about "announced" rather than "announces"?

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Apple has figured out a way to allow us to track the NSA now?

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vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Well there was evidence -- a vehicle that was registered to him was photographed as it was involved in a civil infraction. It wasn't conclusive evidence, much less proof. But it was evidence.

And although I'm not a lawyer, my understanding is that probable cause is a relatively low standard to meet, much lower than preponderance of the evidence and certainly much lower than beyond reasonable doubt.

Ask yourself this -- if a witness saw a car (and noted its license plate) parked in a house's driveway during the time when a burglary was likely to have taken place, and the car was unknown to those who lived at that address, would a judge sign a search warrant on that vehicle and the registrant's address based on probable cause?

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vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

I was not claiming the NYTimes is a commons. Rather I was using the commons as an example of a) how one's short- and long-term interests are not always aligned, and b) how mechanisms that curtail one's own short-term interests can benefit one's long-term interests.

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vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

You haven't demonstrated convincingly that she is wrong. At best you've explained why ad blockers don't serve the short-term interests of those who consume the NYTimes. Your mistake is that you extrapolate that the short-term interests of consumers are aligned with their long-term interests.

I suggest you read Garrett Hardin's writings about The Tragedy of the Commons, so you can see how one's short-term and long-term interests are not always aligned and that finding mechanisms to curtail one's own and others' short-term interests might be in most's long-term interests. You might also be interested in Elinor Ostram's work on managing the commons, for which she won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

(Of course examples of short- and long-term interests not being aligned abound -- high tobacco use, high alcohol use, high-cholesterol diets, etc.)

I think the key question is whether NYTimes' readers' long-term interests are closely aligned with the NYTimes' long-term interests. I suspect they are (disclosure: I pay monthly for online access). Many of us believe the NYTimes produces quality content, primarily news reporting, that's expensive to produce. And we realize if we want to have long-term access to it, the NYTimes needs to generate income by various means, which can include subscriptions and advertising.

Furthermore, your use of the term "customer" for those who neither subscribe nor view the ads is problematic and defies the common definition of "customer".

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vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

I wish they wouldn't have curved/smoothed the graphs. Since it's by year, there are discrete points and values. When you curve a line it has implications for the underlying data, which in this case are incorrect.

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vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

I have never heard him referred to as "Steve Woz". Steve Wozniak, sure. Woz, yes. Or even "the Woz".

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vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

I'm not sure what Github's stated policy was, but it's clear from Julie Ann Horvath's description of how things operated there that quite a few of her co-workers were far from being fully-formed adults.

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vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Nikoli has a lot of interesting puzzles.

[0] https://member.nikoli.com/index.html?lang=en

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

That idea is just plain silly. And who exactly advocates it? It's just a plain, silly straw man.

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Well, I find Dad Meyer's talk to be helpful in thinking about math school education: https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover .

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

'I don't know any evidence, that teaching the "mechanistics" of math should lower the chance of understanding it.' I think that's a bit of a straw man.

The challenge is that simply getting the right answer, especially in terms of arithmetic (one small piece of math), can mask how well a student understands the underlying concepts and whether s/he can flexibly apply the concepts.

Here's a great video on that topic:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ofQ_WnQiZ4

And here's a great video that shows what a participatory classroom with a great teacher can achieve:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlvKWEvKSi8

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vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

I predict the average value of fair dice thrown into the future will be 3.5.

I predict the next value thrown by a given fair die is _____.

Sometimes aggregate predictions are easier than fine-grained ones.

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Some people maliciously or accidentally provide another's email address, and now that person is getting your unsolicited commercial email (i.e., spam). And now they must actively do something to try to get off the list.

Double opt-in means by doing nothing they will only receive your original confirmation email.

It's not a matter of being crazy. It's a matter of being considerate.

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