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You can construct counterexamples too! For example, "on your turn, say a number. First player to say a number that is double a number the other player said, wins." Is a perfect (I …

If you want a middleweight solution, between "ask about this on developer forums" and "try to get a law passed," you could create a consumer organization that publishes a list of g…

Reasonable, but the level of copyright protection for games is actually really small! It only actually covers the art and text, not the game mechanics. I don't think I'd support th…

This is how a lot of regulation happens! It can actually work better than having central funding for inspections - if there's a sudden glut of people who need, like, meat processin…

What level of justification do you think should be required to skip consumer preference and go with a law? In the case of seatbelts I think the case is quite strong. Even beyond co…

What if, in stead of a requirement, we created an opt-in obligation for companies? If you promise "EOL support guaranteed" you register a plan with whatever agency and pay some fee…

As the amount of data tends to 0 (idk why the quote is using 1), if course your belief tends to whatever your belief was before you saw any data. What else could it possibly tend t…

Cover letters that just say how much you love the company are pretty useless. Cover letters that provide additional information about why you're a good use of the company's intervi…

google3 and Plex! God how I miss working with Plex, I didn't know how good we had it.

What's Australian for the most privileged account on a computer? Is there a verb for when you get access to it?

The joke is that that's who is was actually designed by, right?

My friend has been at Facebook forever - apparently new hires often show up and say "I just bought a vacuum cleaner, why do you think I need a new one?" and the strategy of not sho…

I interviewed with a company named Gaussy recently who use it for warehouse operations.

I'm a very casual Ubuntu user, but I use external monitors with my laptop closed. I fixed the "5 second input lag when main display is off" bug a bunch of times, it seemed to break…

He's paying 1 dollar per email to someone who will annoy spammers.

Related experience: I spent two years on Google Assistant's media team. We were ~35 people. Projects included integration with YouTube (5 person team), the visual UI for touch scre…

I think the goal of this post is to kick people out of a rut and make them reexamine their habits. If it's a habit and you like it and you're keeping it because you like it, great.…

Half agree. Probably they no longer have the legal right to store (and serve) the data. Which means that they cannot serve the portion that is between your timestamps, which they c…

My guess would be that "a recording" in this case is actually an internal URI pointing to the show plus a start and stop timestamp. If YouTube wanted to not destroy those "recordin…

Agree - I moved from 40m2 alone to 60m2 with my wife, and the experience is much better. We still have one sink, one toilet, one bathtub, one washing machine. Her space takes up ma…

My first serious number theory course was called "number theory and cryptography." The professor told us on the first day that modern crypto is basically a trivial application of t…

Svelte is a frontend framework that isn't React, Angular, or Vue. This work is towards an installer that isn't Node. If you do frontend work and don't like React, Angular, Vue, and…

Very different operating modes are required depending on how many people you're trying to coordinate. The allegory to software development is pretty clear - sometimes you're workin…

Risk in these situations is that the company goes bankrupt and their creditors go after their loans.

This would eliminate, like, caniuse.com, wouldn't it? Information about what browser version is used by 99% of visitors to a website is an aggregate of personal information of user…