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The broken windows theory introduced by Wilson and Kelling.

People care about privacy up to a point. The majority of people (myself included) are apparently willing to give up their privacy if it means not having to pay for email service, or other information (search results, news).

As someone in the industry (with domain knowledge), I can tell you that you are oversimplifying the problem and ignoring Tesla’s advantage and leadership in this space. Other manufacturers have to account for legacy systems/designs, it is not as trivial as you make it sound.

“Tesla has spent a lot of resources reinventing car manufacturing and yet they can't produce a vehicle that meets their needs.” Where are you getting this information? Design and manufacturing influence one another. None of the “leaders” in automotive space outsource their design or manufacturing. You need to control and master both to compete in this space. Perhaps you can take the Apple route and outsource the labor (Foxconn), but Apple still controls much of the manufacturing process such as introducing friction-stir welding to shrink the iMac or introducing unibody aluminum machining to the MacBooks and iPhones.

There are certain software bugs that cause undefined behavior. Debugging tools such as GDB can only get you so far in identifying and solving such bugs. That’s where static analysis can help.

If the jail cell is as comfortable as the unlocked room, there is absolutely no difference—until you try to leave. Any sane distribution should come with built binary blobs—and an option to rebuild them at will. But forcing you to build everything from scratch is pedantically impractical. But what do I know, I only do this on regular basis at work!

You don’t trust binary blobs? But do you read through all the source you compile? If not, there is little difference.

There are gaming keyboards with 1000hz poll rates.

the market will by itself weed out companies doing excessive environmental damage

Do you have any data to support this fairytale?

Although unlikely, they might be interested in seeing it turned on to make sure that it's a functional telephone.

You should have nothing to worry about. Just follow directions and be cooperative. The people at the border get off on authority. Don't give them a reason to harass you.

I would like to see research of which nations stand to gain the most due to climate change. My guesses are Russia and Canada. Perhaps in the future, Canadians will want to build a wall to keep out Americans, assuming they don't want that already. ;)

Does anyone know any details regarding why the moderators are each being charged with "one count of conspiracy to commit computer hacking"? I cringe at the thought that this is only because they happened to commit crimes using a computer.

These days I much prefer CTRL+SHIFT+ESC.

Is religion not an authority structure?

That reads to me as an atheist statement, yet C.S. Lewis was a Christian apologist according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis

What phone do you use, sir?

Yup, I've run OSX as a vmWare guest on Windows. It's possible and it works.

Thunderbolt was co-developed with Intel.

Technically, Facebook was around since 2004 and open to anyone over 12 since 2006, so she jumped in about 5 seasons in.

Thanks for the term. It looks like there is one nearby, in Ann Arbor, MI. http://workantile.com/

I don't think that argument would stand with any of my previous teachers/professors. But, I would have loved to see someone use that line back at school.

I have used those exact sprinkler system controls and can attest that they are absolutely terrible.

When reward points are being offered, you are being inefficient with your money if you do not take advantage of them when everyone else does. I agree that they shouldn't exist in the first place, but that is out of my control.

Sounds awful. With the rewards of credit cards these days, you're basically throwing away money. Fidelity offers an AmEx card with 2% cashback on all purchases, and there are plenty of other options to choose from. If it's self control you're after, does cash really make a difference? I think modern personal finance tools as Mint do a better job with budgeting. Personally, I have used plastic ever since I was old enough to have a debit card, and I've never looked back.

MH seems like a great place to work. I want to congratulate the founders on the culture they put in place. If I was brave enough to switch jobs, this would be the type of place near the top of my list.

This bring to mind the Kevin Spacey monologue in Casino Jack:

Cause in reality, mediocrity is where most people live. Mediocrity is the elephant in the room. It's ubiquitous. Mediocrity in your schools. It's in your dreams. It's in your family. And those of us who know this - those of us who understand the disease of the dull - we do something about it. We do more because we have to.

Read more at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194417/quotes?qt=qt1477054

Google, stop trying to make ChromeOS happen, it's not going to happen.

This reminds me of Richard Feynman answering a question about magnets.

I really can't do a good job, any job, of explaining magnetic force in terms of something else you're more familiar with, because I don't understand it in terms of anything else that you're more familiar with.

Transcript: http://lesswrong.com/lw/99c/transcript_richard_feynman_on_wh... Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM

Insect screens on openable windows are quite popular in the US.