Perhaps that's Google's intention. They are using your human intelligence to make educated guesses, rather than using AI. Your choices will be added to their dataset.

Yes, but my guess would be much more educated if they would tell me the question in sufficient detail.

I agree with all this.

But, a major motivation to remaster old records is due to copyright expiring on the old recordings, particularly in Europe. A remastered release is considered a new release in terms of copyright, which can therefore be protected, I believe.

The depressing mountain of very cheap public domain John Coltrane (for just one example) "reissues" by every man and his dog was foreseen by the record companies.

And, while I'm here, these cheap reissues of expired copyright recordings often say they are "remastered" when all they've done is tweak the equaliser and added some phasing. For no other reason, these RVG remasters are great in order to identify the reference recording amongst the deluge of bedroom re-hashes.

(And, RIP Bobby Hutcherson. RVG's remasters of his recordings sparkle).

The only election to be held will be a Tory leadership election, not a general election.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/who-will-be-our-n...

The UK votes for constituency members of parliament, not a prime minister.

Give her the phone! GIVE HER THE PHONE!!

edit: OK, I'm being downvoted. That's fine. But, why put your irreplaceable life in mortal danger for the sake of keeping hold of replaceable consumer electronics? That's the disconnect I'm finding hard to process.

Very sad you are being downvoted.

Someone should have helped her, but with hindsight she didn't want to give up her own electronics and wanted someone else to risk their life for her things.

But this situation is also very traumatic for her so there could be any number of reasons why she chose not to just hand her phone over.

I definitely can understand her being angry, but this isn't really an issue about people not paying attention as much as it is bystander effect (it seems).

It was a poor decision made in a moment of panic, not a rational, well pondered choice. Is it really that hard to empathize?

People's responses don't work that way. In any serious situation, the adrenaline will leave you feeling off for an hour or so afterwards, where you might still make decisions you might say you wouldn't when not under pressure.

Possibly because it's easy to say that afterwards, but it isn't directly relevant to the bystander effect. Sure, it's the sensible option, but that isn't on many people's minds at the time because that isn't how biology works.

Also, although it may be beside the point, you could argue that giving them what they want will just increase muggings. The way to sort out the problem is to relax laws around people helping out victims in cases like this.

I don't know why you're being down voted either. In the moment I couldn't get past her wanting all of my things, and I couldn't get past having to do my presentation and letting all of my peers and company down. I froze and in the future that won't happen again, but you were right, I should have thrown my phone and hobbled away.

I was thinking the same thing. Even if you can't afford another one, hand over the damn phone. And don't throw coffee over the person attacking you with a deadly weapon. Of course they will chase you.

I downvoted you, but to be honest, not because i think your advice is bad. (It's kind of reasonable.)

I downvoted you because, like the other top posts, your post managed to gather downvotes via emotional appeal, while posts that point out the actual social source of this behavior along with simple and effective advice on how to circumvent it, are left in the middle of this comment section due to lack of emotional appeal.

It was not a choice between give phone and life. I view her story as she initially had a choice between give phone and scare the mugger off by the fact it is a middle of a day in large city.

Yes, the second option did not work as planned, and it is the main point of the article.

Agreed. The fact someone would potentially risk their lives over a mobile phone is beyond me.

And also, did the OP not consider the potential consequences of throwing a boiling drink in the face of another person armed with a knife?

Does it matter? What do you intend to gain from that discussion?

Yes, the audience's ability to relate to the protagonist matters.

Intend? In the trivial sense, you can guess; in the broad, unknowable.

Email didn't evolve with Gmail. Only the UI evolved.

It could be suggested that Wave was a revolution rather than an evolution, and that was its greatest weakness. I'm sad that it's gone.

Not completely gone, it still exists as Apache incubator project : http://incubator.apache.org/wave/

True. But for it to succeed and be widely adopted, it really needs an organization that is able to host it for the masses.

That's not a logo. It's Camelia, the spokesbug for Perl 6!

(Perl reaching out to pre-schoolers, it seems)

UPDATE: It appears that the logo was designed by Larry Wall. I now see its brilliance!

I read a talk by Larry on how Perl was a postmodern programming language. I, too, see the brilliance of this logo.

Having a choice doesn't mean you need to make a choice. There's a thing called default settings that apply to those who want to be told what to do.

It appears that that article applies to situations where you need to make a choice.

When you accept the UI defaults, someone has chosen your meal or movie for you - no choice needs to be made.

The choice you are making between different ways of dying has nothing do to with the point being made.

And the point being made has nothing to do with the protests in Ukraine.

Well, none of this is communicated by your blog post. The "more" to your story is actually key to your story, it seems to me. Why did you not include it?

> Huge sections could have been skipped without affecting the plot or anything else.

The same could be said of Dostoyevsky. Those long, drawn out passages are often there to make a psychological impression upon the reader rather than adding anything to the plot line per se.