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Your response is what Aubrey de Grey calls the pro-aging trance. And he offers a lot of possible explanations about the psychology behind why many people pretend death is a good thing.

Agreed. Android's all-or-nothing permissions is horrendous and causes me to avoid most apps.

Landlords deliver value by managing and providing a physical space to work in, but when the landlords have lobbies and use their political power to artificially restrict the supply of space and jack u…

I have the Dell Precision M3800 with 15' screen. I haven't found it to be bulky. I got it with Ubuntu preinstalled and it's been my favorite laptop so far.

Same here, it would be nice for SF and NYC to have some more competition for the tech scene, which may force them to loosen their restrictions on housing.

I think as income inequality continues to sky rocket up, we'll see more examples of some people flying in "steerage" while some fly in reclining beds. Inequality in flight is not the pr…

Aren't Python programmers already sloppy enough?

Those are great, I could start reading those immediately for piano. I think it would be more enticing for newcomers to learn this "Guitar Hero sheet music" than traditional sheet music. Jus…

Yeah, the only thing holding me back from trying out Sublime Text is that I don't want to invest time learning proprietary software when there's good open-source alternatives.

Thermodynamics doesn't say that "everything is bound to break down, and that we won't be able to predict all of the ways it can happen". I guess you're referring to the second…

A win for the hotel industry lobby groups and a loss for the general public.

If anyone at the NSA is reading this, I urge you to consider following Snowden's example and help to further weaken the NSA and protect our constitution. (case in point: I was slightly nervous wr…

This makes me very happy to hear that people are steering clear of the NSA. It often surprises me how easy it is to find people to do whatever you want them to do, regardless of the ethics of it. How…

Definitely, this is a huge opportunity for innovation if they would open it up. I would like to see there be no rules on the cars except that they must weigh in under a certain number.

The Talking Machines is my favorite machine learning podcast. So far they've had interviews with many of the big names in ML: Yann LeCun, Goeff Hinton, Yoshua Bengio.

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Even Microsoft uses their evil proprietary format as a selling point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAUJa7Ng2xg&hd=1 …

Noob question: Is it reasonable to think that the spyware on these hard drives is targeted for specific OS's? I have a Seagate HDD and I run Linux (Ubuntu), so I'm wondering if I'd be i…

EFF is an amazing organization! I wish you guys had a Data Scientist position open!