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I don't think anyone is dumb enough to actually prevent the electorate logging into facebook. I expect the language to be broad and the enforcement narrow.

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Because the relationship between money and utility is not constant across the human population. If we consider a meal at a moderately fancy resteraunt then there are people without…

Every time I have gotten an Uber in London the car has been a Toyota Prius, I don't know if that particular car is still congestion charge exempt but even if it isn't what's to sto…

Because the things he changed were fundamental to Martini core. Changing it would require a re write of any code which touched Martini's API. Because people use that project it's b…

Is this part of the premise of the book or personal opinion?

Whatsapp competitor, they seem to be doing quite well, although given how obnoxious their android app is I don't know how long that will last.

That's a shame, I happen to like the use of sigils to denote pointer types, to my eyes it makes code a lot easier to read. Out of curiosity why are they making the change? And will…

For what it's worth my macbookpro runs Dota2 without complaint.

I don't understand the relevance of the title to the service, but it seems like an interesting way of using the bitcoin blockchain to strongly time-stamp messages. Also the fact th…

My understanding is that usually you want both because AABB is good for broad-phase because it's so quick then true polygon collision can be done in a narrow phase.

Only it couldn't because that's not even close to what the article was saying. It was pointing out that looking the part gives opportunities which might otherwise be closed. Theref…

I think the point is that USB vectors allow the malware to jump the airgap but not reliably, maybe it puts some data on a USB stick and jumps it back but for the most part once it …

In terms of morality you may be correct, but if the child in the article could skip some rote memorisation or other busy work for an extra hour or two of sleep I would bet on her l…

I do like code which has comments which describe the level of confidence the author has in some sections (I feel a happier refactoring code which is marked as being suboptimal). Bu…

I think the difference between go slices and java ArrayLists is that go allows you direct access to the underlying array.

Data structures usually, If you want to write a linkedhashmap or a dictionary where the keys are autogenerated from the values or any kind of structure not built into the language …

To the best of my knowledge mitochondria are inherited exclusively from the mother. I imagine this is because when the egg is fertalised the mitochondria in the sperm are discarded…

The article in question? ~5 paragraphs from the bottom. Or are you asking a commenter who disagrees with the article to provide sources for an assertion made in the article?

I remember struggling with this idea, I think my conclusion was that in brave new world people are given happiness but deprived of choice, understanding and meaning.

So long at people get karma for lazy low-content references to whatever cause everyone is swept up in they won't stop posting them.

I think the fact that the US is now a country that people seek political asylum _from_ is going to globally change people's perspective on the country.

Actually downandout wasn't implying that the NSA was bound by laws which prevented them from spying on US citizens, in fact downandout went to great lengths to specify that the sce…

Becuase you need to look at the CO2/MW not the CO2/Plant, If a given plant type produces half the CO2 and half the MW of another plant type you will need two of the former to repla…