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“I have no idea how this “maximizes airflow”—I suspect maximum airflow would come if the holes from one side were drilled straight through.”

I believe the claim apple are making is that increases the surface area, and therefore it acts as a more effective heat sink, not that it maximises airflow.

I find Primer interesting for the relatable human story. What are they doing with this knowledge and why?

Even Primer is fairy dust. The plot makes enough up to suspend your disbelief. For instance, I just made a rule up for my hypothetical new movie: travelling through time drops the traveler in the same location of the frame of reference they inhabit. This is always a fixed location relative to the Earth if the traveller is static relative to the Earth, and hence in the same frame of reference.

A fair question but one that requires significant qualification on what the virtues and competencies of each are. If you consider religion in its entirety there are elements that certainly do compete and contradict scientific endeavour. I enjoyed the book Religion for Athiests by Alain de Botton on qualifying those virtues of religion from the perspective of one who isn't.

Definitions can blur since biometric data can play more than one role.

A username can identify (but not authenticate) an individual, biometric data can do both, whereas a password is nothing by itself. It’s only meaningful in conjunction with an identifier as a shared secret in order to authenticate.

I see where you're going with this and I agree.

A significant consideration is whether owners of self driving cars will have the right to make code modifications to their vehicles.

Captured aptly here by Cory Doctrow.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/23/the-probl...

Edit: salient quotes from the article:

"Here’s a different way of thinking about [the trolley] problem: if you wanted to design a car that intentionally murdered its driver under certain circumstances, how would you make sure that the driver never altered its programming so that they could be assured that their property would never intentionally murder them?"

"If self-driving cars can only be safe if we are sure no one can reconfigure them without manufacturer approval, then they will never be safe."

"Your relationship to the car you ride in, but do not own, makes all the problems mentioned even harder."

A fascinating account of how a wide range of species exhibit sophisticated intelligent behaviour we normally only ascribe to humans.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/10/08/amazing-inner-liv...

We can't know whether animals have a soul any more conclusively than we can know that about ourselves. But it's arguable that one is not less probable than the other.