Nope. Almost all of the difference between men's brains and women's brains appears to be culturally-produced, and has little to nothing to do with, "optimal reproductive strategies." I'm pretty sure that no purported difference in brain structure or behavior between men and women has held up under scrutiny. I'm sure there are some differences that are not dependent upon culture (else we wouldn't have transgender people and everybody would be bisexual), but those differences are so small as to be unmeasurable in practice (so far).

The problem with moving in that direction is that this moves Android in the direction of TOS agreements: nobody bothers to read TOS because they're too long and take too much time to read.

Sure, it's true that grouping permissions reduces how fine-grained the information is, but it also lowers the cognitive burden, making it more likely that people will actually pay attention to the permissions that an app has. Users should naturally assume that an app that has SMS permissions may, at some point, send SMS messages, and should therefore be wary about installing such apps.

I think you missed the point that allowing cache servers to be built lowers the overall cost to the ISP for their network. Also, they shouldn't be advertising bandwidth they can't deliver.

They don't actually need to throttle anything. They just have to fail to build the infrastructure required to support the bandwidth needs of their customers from a Netflix source. Basically, as video streaming has increased, it's created bottlenecks in existing internet infrastructure. If they don't keep up with the new bandwidth demands, they can't deliver the content.

Video streaming providers like YouTube and Netflix have been colocating cache servers at ISP's for a while now. These cache servers are actually cheaper for everybody: they're cheaper for the ISP because they don't need to build out as much new upstream bandwidth to keep their service going. They're cheaper for the content provider because the content provider doesn't get as many hits on its datacenters. And everybody else in between has a less-congested network.

So really it's a matter of ISP's like Verizon and Comcast refusing to allow Netflix/YouTube to build cache servers at the ISP's sites, despite the clear benefits to everybody.

Indexing to inflation really isn't enough, sadly. This is more or less what has happened to the minimum wage since 1968, when the minimum wage was about $10 in real dollars (the minimum wage has dropped somewhat in real dollars when Republicans have had enough power to block minimum wage increases, but has mostly tracked inflation).

What is really needed is to have the minimum wage track productivity. This is what the minimum wage did from the time it was first implemented until 1968. Back then, a person could actually support a family with a high school education. If the minimum wage had tracked productivity since then, it would today be around $20/hr.

I really hope that this increase in the minimum wage in Seattle is just a start. It's a good thing, for sure, but I hope that complacency doesn't settle in over the next few years. It needs to be increased further.

Google actually does support public transportation. They're paying some $6.8 million to fund a San Francisco public transit program, for example.

Honestly, the big problem with public transportation isn't companies like Google. It's racism and classism. Here's a good article describing how racism has crippled Atlanta's public transportation and exacerbated the effects of this winter's snow storm, for example.

Intel has probably spent an order of magnitude more engineering time in optimizing its Windows display drivers specifically for smooth motion under Aero.

Also, I wouldn't at all be surprised if Windows Aero is (slightly) inherently more efficient, for the simple reason that they developed DirectX 10 to do Aero well, while in Linux the developers of the various desktop effects options had to make use of software developed by other people, and hope that the Khronos Group would advance OpenGL in such a way that desktop effects become more efficient.

Linux is also inherently more difficult to optimize for because it is far more diverse. This isn't a problem for more powerful CPUs and graphics cards, but those with less powerful devices are going to feel some pain.

This doesn't make any sense. If they completely disable this functionality, how will anybody ever develop a new extension? Some sort of developer mode which allows users to disable this blocking will be absolutely necessary. So I don't think this will impact power users very much, but it will make more casual users safer.

You'll be less misinformed if you stop listening to conservative talk radio and Fox News.

The article describes a technique for sensing infrared light, turning it into an electric current. It's not possible to do that and display an image on a contact lens that we could actually focus on (you can't focus on something that's right on your eye).

The only way to make a contact lens that would allow somebody to see infrared light would be to have a lens made out of a material such that when it receives an infrared photon, it absorbs that photon and emits a visible-light photon traveling in the same direction. That's very much not going to be possible with a technology built for sensing in this manner. The use of this tech would basically be lighter-weight infrared goggles and other sensors.

Why would he have to move/hire protection? I guess I can see that he might be paranoid enough to think it's necessary, but why would it be actually necessary?

They are a benefit to you, however, because they reduce the city's traffic (provided you use the city's roads).

As for Google paying for the stops, Google is in support of that. It's not Google's fault the city is slow to act on the issue.

This is only the case if the bus stop has a red curb. Not all bus stops do. Do you have evidence that Google primarily (or even occasionally) stops its buses at stops with red curbs?

The Google shuttles are a net benefit to the city as a whole. But they are a symbol of much deeper, broader problems brought on by economic growth, increases in income inequality, and slow housing growth. Economic growth in the bay area has brought a tremendous influx of people, but various regulations have made it difficult to feed demand. This, combined with sharp increases in income inequality, has resulted in soaring housing prices. For a lot of residents, that means they're being forced out of their homes, sometimes their homes of many years.

I would very much like to see the city change the laws so that Google pays for its use of public bus stops, and the city in turn uses that money to expand its public transportation system. It would furthermore be nice to see some action on the side of increasing incentives for building new housing.

Except the survey you linked didn't asked the professionals in the field. It asked people in a different field, many of whom aren't scientists at all.

You can keep burying your head in your ass all you like, but the real world isn't going to wait for you to start paying attention to it. The Earth is warming. Humans are causing it. And the effects are not going to be good. You would be far, far better off if you would pay attention to the actual physical evidence sometime.