nekomancer

The Brussels atttacks were against strategic targets though.

As for the indiscriminate killing of civilians, what else would you call the example from the article?

> in Pakistan, in attempts to take out 41 men, American drones actually killed an estimated 1,147 people (while not all of the 41 targeted figures even died).

There have actually been a ton of examples over the years of researchers hacking into car systems wirelessly, some of which used the media system as the attack vector.

Even if the media subsystem is running on dedicated hardware, the fact that it's networked with the rest of the car means that there's still a risk of it being used to gain access to other components.

Why couldn't/shouldn't people complain about it? It's like how you can be against paparazzi. The fact that something is legal doesn't make it morally right or immune to criticism.

I'm trying to understand what was going through peoples' heads for something like this to happen in the first place, but I'm drawing a blank.

Is this what mass hysteria looks like?

Wouldn't you usually know them already before cofounding a startup with them? It seems like a pretty big committment.

With memorizing numbers as well, splitting them into chunks is also a good tactic, for example 392619582767 -> 392 619 582 767. It makes the whole thing a lot more tractable.

True, but I also need people I want to talk to to be on the messaging tool, which is the real issue here.

As for email, to me it just doesn't serve the same purpose that IM does. It's analogous to sending letters back and forth as opposed to having a face-to-face conversation -- the increased time lag between replies encouraged by the medium has a huge influence on the nature of conversations that occur through it.

I still use email, for example when I want to send something more in-depth to someone and I don't expect a quick reply. But it's not the right tool if I want a real-time, informal conversation with someone, which is most of my conversations.

As much as I dislike facebook, I've moved around a lot throughout my life, as have a lot of my friends, both from high school and university. So realistically, I just don't see any realistic alternative single platform which allows me to keep in touch with all these people.

If such a platform did exist, and I knew about it, I would switch immediately. Their entire business model revolves around getting users addicted, and their history of abusing user's data means I will never be able to even trust the platform.

That being said, I limit my facebook usage to messanger and wishing people happy birthday, so I guess it could be worse.

Somewhat related, I started out using Emacs and have since moved to using vim. I'm at the point where I feel semi-proficient in it, and I've started playing around with .vimrc, pathogen-based addons, as well as other stuff like ctags a bit, and based on my experience so far this extensibility and customization is what makes the text editor so powerful compared to other ones (although I can't really speak for Emacs since I didn't get as far with it).

That being said, I've recently started picking up an interest in lisp (currently slowly making my way through sicp), and I've seen indications that Emacs is somehow more suited to lisp development than vim. As a result, I've actually been considering switching back again, despite emacs pinky, although I'm still on the fence about this.

If anybody here has some knowledge about what Emacs offers in terms of lisp development that vim doesn't (or vice versa) and/or has some good references, I would be very interested to know.