I understand that innovation for innovation's sake is not necessarily what this specific market calls for, but there's no way that the hardware they are selling should cost what they're charging. That's the problem. They should either find a way to make it better, or find a way to make it cheaper. Continuing to sell the same ancient hardware for the same inflated price is neglectful, and they're begging to have somebody else eat their lunch in the free market.

They've had a good run of doing nothing and not updating their hardware or software in any kind of meaningful way for the past couple decades. No other company would have been so neglectful to such a profitable product line.

I like an online reader because I use it from multiple computers with multiple operating systems, and I never have to worry about syncing what articles I've already seen and/or starred. My current favorite is Inoreader, but I've used The Old Reader and Feedly before, and they get the job done as well.

My feeds are Associated Press, Denver Post, Ars, Slashdot, Boing Boing, Kottke, AV Club, and a handful of web comics that I like. I can skim the headlines, and if there are articles I want to read later, I use the "Send to Kindle" browser plugin to push them out to my Kindle. I would be sad to have to give up my leisure reading workflow if sites stopped supporting RSS.

So if you drink six a week, there's no change to risk of dementia, but somehow the seventh triples your risk?

These are two distinct groups:

• group A drinks less than one a day.
• group B drinks more than one a day.

Crossing from group A into group B doesn't magically triple your risk, but group B, collectively, has a much higher risk.

Because group B does not have a cap, (7 to infinity sodas), it's intuitive that the collective risk jumps dramatically. That group includes people who are drinking a fucking ridiculous amount of diet soda.

Snow Flake won't have to worry about a scratch on her precious cell phone marring her narcissistic shell.

Yeah! You tell those cell phone using cucks! With their participation trophies and whatnot! Right guys??!!??!!

Take it down a notch, would you? Commercialism drives innovation, which means that developments that have a viable, marketable commercial application are the ones that get funding. There will be other applications for this cool new material. There's no reason to get mad about it being used in a cell phone.

Because shutting down extremist accounts ends violent extremism

For Twitter, you can assume that this is not so much about pushing agendas or silencing voices (or ending extremism). This is about making sure Twitter doesn't become an unpleasant place to be. If people stop going there because it sucks because it's full of lulz nazi eggs shouting caps-locked slurs at them, that hurts Twitter right in the pocketbook.

Argue all you want about Twitter's responsibility to defend free speech, but ultimately they're a business, and a business can't be perceived as though they're looking the other way while extremists harass and threaten their user base.

Exxon did nothing wrong... it could not, a company is not animate. People do things on behalf of the company.

You are apparently not familiar with Citizens United. Corporations are, for many legal purposes, people. You may think that's stupid (I certainly do), but it is the law of the land.

I commute on bicycle whenever I can, which is when most of my podcast listening happens (it's mostly trails and low-traffic neighborhoods, and I use earbuds that let a lot of ambient noise through). I also usually listen to them at about 1.3x speed, to pack a little more in. Unless my wife is listening with me, because she can't stand the sped-up talking. She says it makes her feel like bugs are crawling on her. Some kind of weird synesthesia thing, I guess.

Anyway, most of my podcasts are comedy:

• Comedy Bang Bang - Comedy and improv from mostly L.A. based comedians, hosted by Scott Awkerman
• Doug Loves Movies - Comedian Doug Benson has friends from comedy and film at a live taped discussion where they play movie-based games and generally joke around.
• Stop Podcasting Yourself - Conversational comedy podcast with a couple really funny guys from Vancouver, Canada
• My Brother, My Brother, and Me - Three brothers give fake advice and discuss dumb or funny Yahoo Answers questions
• Never Not Funny - Another conversational comedy podcast hosted by Jimmy Pardo
• The Flop House - A bad movie podcast, but with lots of amusing digressions and very funny hosts
• The Beef and Dairy Network - Dry British humor: a fake beef and dairy podcast
• The Dollop - a couple comedians pick a topic in US history and tell the story while riffing jokes about it.

I also like these non-comedy ones:

• Stuff You Should Know - Educational, but fun, a new topic every time.
• Slate's Culture and Political Gabfests - Panel discussions of the week's cultural and political happenings
• Planet Money and Freakonomics - Two smart and interesting economics podcasts.
• Radiolab - Mostly science stuff, but with storytelling elements and really good production

We're talking about K-12 education here. The computer science training you give these kids is bound to be somewhat superficial, but it's still valuable. Part of what our education system is trying to offer at that level is a broad range of experiences so that students will be exposed to many things. When the time comes to start specializing in something (i.e. choosing a major in college), they will have a good idea of what subjects they enjoy and have an aptitude for. That's where they'll pick up the math and analytical skills and other foundational stuff. If they're not exposed to coding before then, it's much less likely they'll consider that path.

That's how it worked for me, anyway. I was not a computer hobbyist as a kid, but I had a programming class as a sophomore in high school that was pretty much just fiddling around with QBasic. I enjoyed it, and it came naturally to me. I ended up getting a computer science degree and I'm a working software engineer, a career I'm very happy in. Without that superficial high school coding experience, I don't think it would have crossed my mind to pursue a CS career. I am thankful for it.

Here's my question:

Mr. Sckreli, below is the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, a psychological tool for evaluating people for psychopathy. Please rate yourself on each trait on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 meaning "I do not exhibit this trait at all" and 10 meaning "I fully exhibit this trait".

1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM
2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH
3. SEEK STIMULATION or PRONE TO BOREDOM
4. PATHOLOGICAL LYING
5. CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS
6. LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT
7. SHALLOW AFFECT
8. CALLOUSNESS and LACK OF EMPATHY
9. PARASITIC LIFESTYLE
10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS
11. PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
12. EARLY BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS
13. LACK OF REALISTIC, LONG-TERM GOALS
14. IMPULSIVITY
15. IRRESPONSIBILITY
16. FAILURE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR OWN ACTIONS
17. MANY SHORT-TERM MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS
18. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
19. REVOCATION OF CONDITION RELEASE
20. CRIMINAL VERSATILITY

Most of the articles I've seen about this inevitable dropoff in popularity have had an underlying implication that Niantic had done something very wrong. What is often left unsaid is the second part of this headline: it is still INSANELY profitable. SIX TIMES more profitable than its nearest competitor. Pokemon Go is still an app developer's wet dream. Yes, Niantic has had some big stumbles in their rollout, and yes, the fad has died down a lot. But they're still raking in money hand over fist, and they've still got a pretty loyal fan base, and if they're smart they'll continue to roll out new features to keep people interested for some time.

Agreed. Here is a relevant Wondermark cartoon to accompany your thoughts. I long for the day when I don't have to hear internet pedants correcting people about the meaning of "begging the question".

For me, the initial purchase is NBD, but I have a mental barrier against re-paying for an app that I've already paid for if my wife or kids want it, even if it's only 99 cents.

If you allow drug you, you pretty much mandate it for an athlete to be successful.

The sad truth is that we're already there, because drug prohibitions in sports have proven to be largely unenforceable.

They have something like this at the Denver Museums of Nature and Science robotics exhibit. It's these, actually.

The focus is more on electronics and robotics than logical structure, but similar. They were very fun to play with. My kids spent most of their time at that station.