Not entirely. There are some genetic metabolic disorders for which antibodies resulting from vaccines potentially present a serious risk. Not just ASD, but a few other risks. Can't find the journal articles at the moment, but they are out there.

Agreed. My wife may have an MTHFR mutation, which would give any potential future children serious risks to vaccination. Not having enough medical exceptions is what scares me about laws like this. We would have to rely on herd immunity, which of course this law would help with if it weren't for the fact that it would mandate vaccines to people who may be at risk from them.

Because it's most likely overkill if all you want is indexing.

Zardoz, The Room, Birdemic...

I'll second everything but step 3. I would get some standard libraries set up to extract the plain text from each format and make that searchable. Probably much simpler.

Their stupid rewards program is tied to a gift card. And ONLY works on purchases paid via that gift card (which can be auto-reloaded and have balance transfers to it from gift cards you receive as gifts). The answer for most people is not to use their rewards program at all.

colony != individual. If you're having trouble with the word colony, replace it with the word "city" in your mind.

Well said.

Using your "human" analogy, human colonies survive for thousands of years. Damascus, Syria is over 6,000 years old. If human colonies started dying out, you'd notice.

eleventy billion? Wouldn't that be 110 billion? I guess someone's making up for the bees' absence.

I could be wrong (can't make much sense of it either), but it may scale up exponentially rather than linearly as opposed to traditional circuits. I don't really see any proof that this is true, other than they highlighted how this would somehow be an improvement.

The only thing I can gather from the article is that this enables a massively parallel comparator. And then somehow that translates to someday faster pattern recognition for speech / image. Very scarce on details.

Early adopters or Eternal September?

From their marketing:

I have no idea if that means 25MB per email or total for your mailbox. I'd hope it was the former. They support POP3 or IMAP.

Their current webmail client seems to be somewhat OK (if not cloned outright from Google and then had banner ads slapped in) - screenshot is over 2 years old:
http://venturebeat.com/2012/07...

I don't think it means they're leading edge in any way, but they're not lagging behind nearly as much as I thought they were.

Most don't need to get rich to be happy. For some, struggling with low income doing what they love is better than holding a regular job.

But really, it's like starting any small business. A large number of them fail. And you have to be entering a market that has room for you. It's about making a living and not getting rich or famous.