This sounds like Google+'s circles.

I appreciate your observation. What point are you trying to convey?

> the goal was they had to weasel the phrase in somehow

Reminds me of the old short story, I think it was called "The Club"?

That makes me think - in ML we use output and inputs to influence internal state...

For some reason, every thing is a video game to me, so I'm always trying to "pathfind" different routes, and calculate... for the lack of better word, weights each road has at different times of the day. Makes it pretty quick to remember them. Regardless of where or how I am, I'm mentally always aware of what approximate direction North is.

At a certain point, we need to start piercing the corporate veil and hold people accountable.

The term of art “pierce the corporate veil” literally exists because we already do this.

Do we, though?

I have successfully charged back a card-present transaction after multiple months with US Bank.

Was it a chargeback (i.e. a fraudulent transaction) or services not rendered (i.e. faulty product etc.).

Services not rendered and it was based on a bait and switch with a rental company. I had to send in documentation and receipts but I got my money back in the end.

I mean, at this point, might as well just 3d print a moveable type...

I presume that the internal sd card would help the longevity of the device as well. Like someone mentioned, they upgraded their storage. You could do the same thing, if after say 5-7 years, the card starts degrading and the reader starts slowing down.

>Why does language design continue to be a subjective topic? its not like computers need cultures !

I think this is because all these 'languages' are ultimately human languages and not machine languages. What I mean to say is, at the end of the day all programming languages are abstractions of the human mind to make our life easier. Some times, a hammer makes our life easier in some situations, some times you need a fork.

A programming language is literally a tool to tell the computer to /do something/, and as the /something/ changes, so does the best tool to do that something.