I have a new conspiracy theory: that Google themselves are deliberately poisoning the well with privacy complaints so ridiculous that we learn to dismiss them as mere paranoia, then when there is a real issue nobody will pay attention.

3: Profit!

Exactly so. This is the list of addresses saved when they were entered in a web form, remembered (optionally) so you can enter it again later. It's not some magic web search of everybody related to you for no discernible purpose.

I'm still not worried about an imminent invasion of rat multiborgs.

The point being made here is that focusing entirely on reproduction can have a negative impact on long-term survival. Too many children can mean that everybody starves.
You're using "replication" to mean the act of one individual giving birth. Doctorvo is using "replication of the species" to mean a long term increase in size of the entire population.

I just pulled out my phone, opened Translate, spoke and immediately had the translation spoken back to me.
I still think its pretty cool, but what is it about these new earbuds that has any bearing on this bidirectional spoken translation capability which has been baked into the Translate app for ages?

That feels like you may mean the System Properties dialog Hardware tab - 2K had the Device Manager button in the middle, then XP moved it to the top and chucked a random Window Update button in its place (even though there was another tab for Automatic Update settings). Played merry hell with my muscle memory.
At least they kept Alt-D as the shortcut.

Call me a prescriptivist, but I think the way you redefined the two terms 'descriptivism' and 'prescriptivism' to mean each other is bound to cause confusion and should be proscribed.



In other news, I have now looked at words containing 'ivi' for long enough that all I can see is Roman numerals.

Are you completely ignoring the fact that this discussion thread right here is about the tax being marginal?
The only way it makes any sense to calculate 2.25% of 250K is if someone makes $500K, so they make 250K over the threshold.
The average 14K pp estimate suggests that the average wage they're looking at is 14,000/.0225 = ~620K ABOVE the 250K threshold, so $870K/yr.

That variation is already present in every linked program anyway. This just changes the dice-roll from only once at build time to each and every boot time. Surely it would suck more to get a randomly slow link at build time and then be stuck with it?

We have that already though.
At least in Chrome, there's global defaults for each type of thing, and per-site overrides that you can access by clicking the site icon in the address bar.
Granted, they don't have pretend-to-allow-access-but-fake-the-result, but I thought this was normal and had been in most browsers for ages?

Mir came crashing down a while ago.

Yeah, no. If you want to zoom in on a tiny blur that you know is a face, this tech will give you just that: A face. A different face that it found in a different (higher-res) photo. That can't possibly ever do anything other than mislead.

Wouldn't be the first time: Skype, Chrome... (although at least Chrome only crashed if it saw that in a url context)

Yes, this would be a good immediate mitigation.
It wouldn't fix bricked installs, but it would avoid breaking new ones - except for the people who send the string.

Google Maps could be considered a single panorama (although that's arguable - does the definition of a panorama require that the viewpoint stay in one place and look outwards?) but StreetView definitely isn't - it is lots of separate small, low-res panoramas (panoramae?), one for each location you can position the viewpoint.