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Randomizing children at hospitals would likely have big negative impact on society. On the long term, everyone would loose social cohesion because of the lack of bonds between brothers, nieces, whatever.
Families would lose every incentive to have a child in the first place, if it would be randomly switch to another (things like inheritance, family history and lineage comes in my mind). On the other hand, adoption would surely skyrocket.
> Randomizing children at hospitals would likely have big negative impact on society.
I disagree, and I think the opposite could even be true. We are hard wired to protect our biological offspring; if we know that our offspring will be placed randomly into society, we would have greater reason to concern ourselves with the well-being of society in general.
(All successful modern societies have communistic and capitalistic components in simultaneous operation. Capitalism provides the incentive for productivity and communism ensures that incentives can be acted upon by as many people as possible. The most successful societies are arguably ones that balance these aspects well.)
That is precisely the prisoner's dilemma. People have some interest in making society better, but not nearly as much interest as they would have had in improving the well being of their biological children.
That's an incredibly personal subject. Some people can develop such bonds, others cannot get past the perceived distance. The importance of bloodlines runs very deep in most western societies (I don't know much about other societies, so I won't generalize...), and simply saying it is possible ignores a lot of social stigmas and personal attitudes.
No, but the biological bond is started while the child is still in the womb. The child is born with a knowledge of the people around the mother from hearing them while in the womb. If I was in the office, I could site some recent studies, but they should be pretty easy to find. Talking into the belly looks dumb, but it is a pretty good idea for the father.
The bunch of traditional sayings and tales about stepchildren and stepparents aren't without a basis in reality. You don't neccessarily need biological connection to develop such bonds, but it does have a fairly strong impact and correlation.
Last time I've tried to install (~ 9-10 months ago):
- Stash: it was a no-brainer (easy setup, easy use).
- GitLab: hours spent with frustration (hard to setup, but this might have changed now, I need to try it again).
Stash seem to have a larger team behind it, with more features, documentation and snappier responses, but GitLab is promising too. I hope they all can be profitable and keep up the speed of improvements in all of the products.
I think Tim O'Reilly or Jeff Jarvis or Clay Shirky (unfortunately I don't have the bookmark anymore) already addressed this:
The case is a prime example that what you write is not only the jurisdiction where you write it, but also the jurisdiction where people read it. (And the jurisdiction where it stored and where it is going through as network traffic.)
If you publish something, it can be read everywhere. There should be no surprise that people will judge your words based on their customs, on their laws, on their terms, and they will act within their jurisdiction.
But that goes both ways: if a "Nigerian prince" scams you, you will not stop just because you were originally out of his jurisdiction.
Is there any benefit to use Presto on top of Riak or ElasticSearch (assuming someone writes the required connectors)? What are the main differences there?
The benefits would be that you could query them using full ANSI SQL and could join them with other data sources such as Hive. One of the benefits of Presto's connector architecture is that it allows queries across multiple disparate data sources (after the someone writes the connectors).
This is true but when Google's ad clicks increase by 20+% a quarter what you said is irrelevant, Google is keeping almost all the clicks for Adwords. So you're competing with Google's Youtube, Google Local, Google Images, and the whole shebang. Guess who's winning?
As far as I see it there is something of a chicken and egg problem here. Google has often maintained, publicly, that its search algorithm is only interested in providing the most utility to end-users.
To an extent (and in some cases, I except that there are exceptions) this holds true:
If I google for a video streaming website I want Youtube to be at the top of the list. Semantically that is the correct answer to the "question" implied by the search.
So:
Are google services popular because they are highly represented in google's search results?
-OR-
Are google services highly represented in google's search results because they are popular.
I absolutely do not believe that google should feel pressured to artificially demote its own offerings over fears of anti-competition litigation/legislation. On the other hand I can see an argument for clearly marking a result that points to a google service as 'belonging' to google.
I agree, banks and financial institutions are data driven businesses.
I have seen several banks from inside, and most of them think that they are driven by financial analysts, figuring out clever equations for managing money (e.g. lending rules, mortgage policies, etc), while IT is just a cost center for tracking the transactions. It's old school, and they change very slowly.
Sooner or later they shall realize that the transaction data they are tracking is a good source of information, and they could use "hard" data (through some machine learning and data mining), instead of or alongside of the "soft" intuition of their analysts.
