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500 error?

At the end of the article they say they’re releasing the source code, does anyone know where?

Then why are there ads in my Windows 10 OS? Why the aggressive data sponging behavior?

Microsoft is a lot better than Google, but I still feel like I am their product when I use their OS.

... compared to a authoritarian regime with literal concentration camps?

+1 on this, paragraphs are meant to group ideas. The way they’re used here, there might as well be just a wall of text with no paragraph delineations at all.

I’m not sure I really needed “fart” to be censored to “f——“. Am I out of touch with how acceptable it is to use the word fart? Am I going to accidentally offend someone?

I actually graduated from WPI at the same time as this research was going on (2017), and I remember discussing this with a few graduate students who worked in the same lab but on other research.

All the students in the lab knew the research wasn't particularly exciting but that the research space had a lot of potential. There was a lot of hype on the campus when this article (and I think a few other similar ones) came out and started circulating, but I think it made the students who actually did the research uncomfortable, because it was made clear that their advisor had hyped the research for funding purposes.

Academia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sorry, but this is just... True?

https://www.collegedata.com/cs/content/content_payarticle_tm...

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-...

In the article, they discuss a few times how a consideration for this drug is servicemen in the field.

I think that's just how things are. I'm 23 and haven't found a better way yet!

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, last month, a year ago. Stop comparing yourself to others, remap comparing yourself against others to comparing yourself against your past self.

"A study of young, urban injection drug users interviewed in 2008 and 2009 found that 86 percent had used opioid pain relievers nonmedically prior to using heroin... Of people entering treatment for heroin addiction who began abusing opioids in the 1960s, more than 80 percent started with heroin. Of those who began abusing opioids in the 2000s, 75 percent reported that their first opioid was a prescription drug."[0]

What if they're being intentionally coerced by pharma?

[0]: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/rela...

This is a terrifying thing to read on acid.

What you’re doing is worth it. Thank you for it.

Slowdowns here in Boston.

As a software engineer who graduated college about a year ago -- with a degree in robotics engineering -- somehow the end has always seemed both near and far. Botnets and massive hacks aren't something I grew up with, but they feel commonplace ever since my introduction to the world of tech. I don't know if I'll even be surprised when the grey goo starts pouring out of my USB port, other than the surprise something else malicious didn't start pouring out first :)

I think they may mean alcohol.

... As opposed to all those non-text-based programming languages?

“No one is bombing Hawaii”

Seems that the sentiment analysis speedometer graphic can go "too positive" and the needle disappears.

Re: your first point

I don't think it's an attempted solution to a problem of efficient wealth transfer, I think it's an attempt to solve the issue of marketing a charity. Any charity's argument is essentially 'give us your wealth so we can do something good with it for people who do not have wealth'. Being able to reduce the cost for donators to something as low as the cost of electricity and the simplicity of downloading and running an app seems like a viable strategy for targeting a much wider audience of donators.

That's not to say it will succeed, or that there aren't other issues with this idea. But I do think that it is a good idea to try to target people who wouldn't be making a direct donation anyways.

I find the same issue with working on Python.