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Control of borders doesn't imply "everyone keep out." It just means that the government reserves the right to keep people out. Kinda like a trademark, actually. One has to "defend"…

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This was one more benefit to using an HP-48G. No proctors ever knew what one looked like, so they mostly just cared if it had a QWERTY keyboard. Not that I ever used the symbolic m…

The rent control laws were known to the landlord at the time the lease was signed in most cases; the rent control laws in San Francisco haven't changed materially since 1994.

It sounds like you don't understand how Lyft and Uber work. You have no control over which driver you get; the driver app lets all the drivers in your area (and an increasing area …

Unfortunately, the probability that someone is able to understand this logic is lowered considerably once you realize that they're working in a job where they're required to act on…

The only problem with that is you can't think of cold as something you can generate. Cold is the absence of heat, and so the only way to make it in a place where there is already h…

Raise prices until the tradeoff is worth it or the demand reaches a tolerable level.

You...do know that Apollo and Hermes are two entirely different entities, right? Hermes is the counterpart of the Roman Mercury. Apollo has the same names in both pantheons.

Assuming you're doing split-horizon DNS, those records should be hidden from the outside. And the only way to detect the CNAMES other than brute force scanning of a DNS zone is to …

Koan. The word you're looking for is koan.

An EC2 rep has told me on more than one occasion that they have no plans to support ipv6 because the demand for it simply isn't there.

Yes, but if you can't run the chmod binary...

To clarify: if they receive a reply from me, even if it's a "no thanks go away," they have to take the time to read it just in case it's a "holy crap here's my resume send it to ev…

I'm not expecting them to filter me out. I'm just causing them to have to spend a little time on something that won't bear fruit.

They don't have to care. If the current spam methods weren't working for them, they'd stop. But someone's replying to those e-mails, and someone's paying their referral fees. Why s…

Was it because the author isn't a founder?