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> There will be false positives and negatives. Lots.

And as usual, the people who appear to be targetted with the laws (the four digital horsemen) will figure out simple workarounds, so the laws really only harm honest people.

So I take it you implicitly agree with the original article's thesis?

I'd be careful reading it: Kuhn is excellent at building narratives, and what is more narrative friendly than revolution? In reality science is far more messy than he acknowledges.

Unfortunately while I think many of Kuhn's observations are interesting, I'm confused what you think scientists might learn from them. After all, the work in question is science, not philosophy of science, and frankly it seems a lot of time like the latter gets in the way of work (see: Popper's radical empiricism). Poetic? Sure. Useful? Difficult to see how.... Mostly his work seems useful for bolstering the credibility of speculative Popular Science articles (or Axios in this case).

> Who really wants to take a Hyperloop from Houston to Dallas?

Presumably people living there, about 12 million of them.

> And even if you can, then you need to rent a car just to get around, or spend several hundred dollars on Uber/Lyft.

Are you joking or describing LA?

Actually fingerprints are relatively easy, if painful, to change.

Your point stands, of course.

> To me, this says more about Ars than about the (non)issue at hand - it's finally slid down to the level of a typical net publication.

One swallow does not a summer make!

> Gibbs said in the TLS article that he did his research for an unnamed "television network." Given that Gibbs' main claim to fame before this article was a series of books about how to write and sell television screenplays, it seems that his goal in this research was probably to sell a television screenplay of his own. In 2015, Gibbs did an interview where he said that in five years, "I would like to think I could have a returnable series up and running." Considering the dubious accuracy of many History Channel "documentaries," he might just get his wish.

Welp, this just killed any interest I had even if his idea was intriguing.

Well, you can, but you probably won't get any serious critique and people will dismiss you (it seems like rightfully so in this case).

> Sure, dlopen does tons of more stuff behind the scenes, but ultimately it is about loading bunch of bytes into memory and executing those as functions.

That's pretty much mprotect, though. dlopen mostly does the other things, and it does a lot.

Agreed; grew up in the Berkshires and these were just a gimmick. I never saw them.

> but I think the social expectations are much clearer than when a team uses email for everything.

In my experience, this is typically the expectation to respond immediately regardless of the query.

Nope.

Wait you think email is LESS searchable than Slack?

> All links are curated by hand from Hacker News.

My fear is that I have a different taste than you. How do you curate it?

Morally or nutritionally? These are two entirely different evaluations.

It's not clear why Google relies on demanding browsers change to provide the experience the users expect.

> You can have natural scrolling, an accurate reader view, a working back button and other highly performant features in a mobile-optimized HTML and CSS standard like AMP. In fact, you practically have to go out of your way to break these things in the way that AMP does.

> Why does AMP have to suck so much?

Because it violates every assumption on how browsers should work. I would prefer a slow browser I understand to a fast one I can't control.

That's an ethical problem, which is orthogonal to the fact that this fake meat is basically a soy hot dog in terms of nutrition.

Is MSG considered an artificial flavoring? I was under the impression that it is both naturally occurring in biology and that its health problems are greatly over-exaggerated.

Nonetheless, point taken.

Taxes ≠ rents.

I'd hazard a guess that most people don't differentiate between race and ethnicity.

I'm not sure why you'd conflate the two, to be honest—understanding your race is fairly necessary to understand how you're viewed in the US, and how you might be expected to behave. Understanding your ethnicity is an entirely different thing—e.g. legally, nobody cared if a person was french, german, or english if the question was 'black or white'. But you might care.