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Large companies do this. Small companies/small groups of developers have no idea how to implement and manage this, but think that it should be easy. I've recently been approached b…

For what it's worth, just because one party has a president in office, doesn't mean the other parties, businesses, and special interests stop trying to push their agendas. I think …

Ugh, I didn't stop to consider the special education component (and its cost). That's my bad. This reminds me of a similar theory in regards to affluent towns with low taxes that h…

It tends to be a negative correlation. In the Northeast US, you'll generally see the best performing districts have a lower amount spent per child than the underperforming district…

Arecibo! I remember them from my time around Park Slope. My personal go-to was Evelyn Car Service from Prospect Heights. That said, even Manhattan has had phones for black cars. I'…

The other thing that's discounted here is how people treat their products they've purchased. I'm not saying that's the sole cause, but it surely doesn't help when filters aren't cl…

Depends on the part of the US. The Northeast Corridor[1], where the DC-NYC route that was previously mentioned is part of, is owned primarily by Amtrak -- so they get priority on t…

I don't get why we hold TSA to a higher standard than what they are: security guards. Security guards don't go trumpeting how many bank robberies they've thwarted, because they sim…

Correct. Regulatory arbitrage is about finding and taking advantage of loopholes, and shifting business activities to other business units (or even locations) where while those act…

To nitpick on something... You say: > I agree it should be optional to just live in an uninsured and unsellable shed if you want. The buyer or insurance company can make the inspec…

I've seen where through general abuse and repeated, early dismissal of bug reports, people are extremely reluctant to call anything an emergency ... even actual emergencies.

Isn't this (form-over-function) a similar but not exactly identical phase that Microsoft went through, that resulted in the now publicized "Raymond Chen camp vs. MSDN camp" mantra?…

The FedEx we know, isn't actually FedEx. Nor is FedEx Home. FedEx is really the airline (all the time) or long-haul, inter-city transport (most of the time). The guys who come to y…

We treat it as special because it's not a tangible asset. If you run into extreme hardship, I can't repossess and sell your 4 years of education/partying for a market rate of its v…

I agree, but with a little twist: the problem is not that the latter party doesn't know how and the former party has the answers, maybe it's that the former party doesn't know how …

Edit: I deleted my original comment because I totally confused the brands (Xerox, not Brother). Brother doesn't do rebranded Samsung printers. Link to Xerox issue: http://www.dkrie…

I'm less concerned about denial of service via cutting cables, and more concerned about the tapping of cables for wholesale data snarfing.

It's using your laptop fan to simulate the sounds of the hurricane.

I disagree on a wholesale "ban". There are some excellent Bloomberg pieces that dive into details correctly (particularly items by Matt Levine and Megan McArdle over at Bloomberg v…

US insurance carriers generally ask you to certify that you did not have insurance through another carrier/policy simultaneously (upon submission of a claim), as policies tend to h…

And Accenture's case study of the same project: https://www.accenture.com/t20150719T214424__w__/gb-en/_acnme...

They tried to push the PR angle in 2013, and no one took notice. https://gcn.com/articles/2013/10/04/gcn-award-nyc-databridge...

I also remember a string of commercials from IBM about how they help out police with predictive algorithms, historical analysis, etc. Here's one I was able to dig up: https://www.y…

One of the mentioned uses was tax fraud, however, IBM has been doing this statewide, for years now. https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/34304.wss