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Wikipedia has the basic issues explained: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration

This study, while perhaps not very relevant to real world software engineering (development, maintenance, refactoring), seems to show that there when developers design code and applications, there's little difference for them between using dynamically or statically typed languages. And that's interesting, because it implies that the way developers think about code is somehow type independent.

Schengen Agreement, which eliminates border control is in effect in 26 countries (including non-EU countries, like Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, but excluding some EU countries, for example UK).

Fun! It would be nice if the source of the image was given, so credit can be given to the author, if possible.

"The structure is basically HotorNot/FaceMash"

The biggest advantage of Drupal is, that probably you won't have to write a single line of code for this. You would need to learn how Drupal works (on a high-level, basic stuff), then just piece together existing modules and configure your website. That's the main idea behind Drupal - to be able to build and maintain websites without the help of a developer. This doesn't mean that the resulting Drupal module code is overly complicated and difficult to maintain, quite the opposite, it has a great community with high coding standards. Drupal was also meant to be used to build community websites, so it supports structures for multiple users creating content.

This doesn't make sense to me. Doesn't that mean, that Japanese (and German, and Indian and anywhere else in the world) markets are completely open to (and from a certain point of view desperate for) startups? I understand problems with getting funding or the right people, but can't you import those?

You've got a point there. More data would be nice too.

My understanding of it, is that the data is used to check whether some groups don't receive too much unnecessary attention at the cost of not paying enough attention to other groups because of some non concious bias.

"On the other hand, in day-to-day police work, I'd think that statistics are everything"

Statistics are worth attention, but I really hope they're not everything in police work;)

I find this fragment really insightful. Seems like it's a common mistake in a lot of domains.

"Over the last fifteen years or so, many police agencies started capturing data on police interactions. The primary purpose was to document what had historically been undocumented: informal street contacts. By capturing specific data, we were able to ask ourselves tough questions about potentially biased-policing. Many agencies are still struggling with the answers to those questions.

Regardless, the data permitted us to detect problematic patterns, commonly referred to as passive discrimination. This is a type of discrimination that occurs when we are not aware of how our own biases affect our decisions. This kind of bias must be called to our attention, and there must be accountability to correct it."

Isn't that an 'egg and chicken' type of problem? You can, after all, learn self-control / to defer gratification.