"Probably that musk wants to have intercourse with his mother and kill his father.
Isn't that pretty much the sum total of Freud? (cocaine, it's a helluva drug)"

Hmmm ...says something about Freud as well...

Here's what "cliques" made me think of: high school.

Cliques form - and people get mean to each other - when individuals become saturated with friends. You only have enough energy / empathy / extroversion to maintain friendship with a certain number of people. If you have more people swirling around you than that, then you start to push some away.

That's what the internet is. It's too many people. Immerse yourself in it too deeply and you'll exceed your capacity for friendly interaction, and start rejecting people.

Some social situations are this way as well.

Just an idea.

"All you need is a quick google search on HFT and Flash crash. The one in 2010 was attributed to HFT bots."

It is for this reason that I propose a random small amount of time (say, 30 sec to 2 min?) be added to all trades.

There sure won't be any issues with this!

"...app installation only from the windows store..."

"Disabled by default, then enabled by default, then mandatory, then not able to be worked around. Give it time."

Keep your win7 install disk, ppl.

"I still have to wonder how sound their business model is."

Business model now have sound by default!

Facebook playing videos with audio on by default -
reaction 1: oh, this is terrible!
reaction 2: wait, I only unmute my computer for specific media consumption. This probably won't be a big deal.
reaction 3: wait, wait. I'll probably listening to music, and then think "oh, I'll surf FB while checking out this album" and then give myself a heart attack when my mom or someone's dog or something starts coming out of my speakers.

Reagan cut taxes and _increased_ gov't spending. The result (unsurprisingly) was a boom economy, and growth in the national debt. IJS.

Wikipedia:

"Reagan significantly increased public expenditures, primarily the Department of Defense, which rose (in constant 2000 dollars) from $267.1 billion in 1980 (4.9% of GDP and 22.7% of public expenditure) to $393.1 billion in 1988 (5.8% of GDP and 27.3% of public expenditure)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Look. These "Smart Babies" are dangerous. Regular babies will cry all night and keep their parents up, but when you combine this lack of diurnal schedule with the cunning intelligence of "Smart Babies" you'll have infants crawling out of bed, hatching plots in the middle of the night! Looking for the cookie jar, wandering outside, making off with the silver! Stealing the breath of the family cat!

Smart babies must be monitored! Won't somebody think of the babies?!

You miss the point of Uber (and Lyft and other ride sharing servies). The point being that they know where you are and sell that for money. TFA has a picture (before their "hey turn off your add blocker" screen comes up) showing the value of location based adds in 2014, and projected in 2019. Guess which one is higher? Remember when Uber went through their data and figured out who went home with someone else after they hit the bar and published a thing on the web about it? Wouldn't it be great if they could mine that sort of info about you without you even having to be actually using their app? Yeah, Uber thinks so too.

Uber doesn't care to rip you off over your ride 'cause that's not even where the real money is.

The easier it is to scan you, the more often you will be scanned.

Holy shit, magsafe is the best freaking thing in the entirety of the Apple universe. It is an oversight that it isn't on everything. iphones. ipads. Other vendors laptops. Electric toothbrushes. Vacuum sweepers. Magsafe is the pinnacle of all of Apple's output. It is genius so banal that mediocrity must slay it.

insight!

Huh. I wonder what they look like? I'll have to start eyeing up utility poles. Anyone got a (non locating!) picture? If you're in Seattle have you seen any unusual equipment on the poles?

Snapchat Secretly Acquires Seene, A Startup That Let's Mobile Users Make 3D Selfies

Let's make unnecessary apostrophe jokes!