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Sometimes I really wish I had the ability to downvote. But never more have I wanted it until this totally asinine comment. People like you are the whole reason the US' media is com…

Sounds like an easy default is to keep the profile private until the user chooses to "create" the profile.

Honestly I have never really found a situation where I wanted to exactly (or even slightly) mean reduce by 10%. It is too specific of a definition to be truly useful. I find it muc…

Interestingly, asking Google to define "decimate" returns a modern definition, "kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of", and a historical one, "kill one in every te…

I tried in both FF and Chrome, no issues with performance noticed. Do you have a lot of plugins with FF? I actually had an opposite problem, the game was incredibly generous with i…

IANAL, and yes, you can not copyright game mechanics or ideas. This is why so many clones of every game exists. Because no one owns the rights to "a tower defense".

What? Of course the apparent affect matters. If the underlying physical principles can be understood, there is a possibility of increasing its efficiency for larger throughput. And…

In those studies that show removing a lane can improve traffic flow or adding a lane can worsen traffic, that is only true of particular lanes/roads in different areas. In fact, it…

The latter isn't used because it sounds cooler, it is literally rooted in the "kill" command on UNIX systems of old. The kill command is still used today, but can be used to send s…

Unfortunately, while showing what we would consider "intuitively bad data" may seem like a bad idea, only actually empirically testing it can we measure and quantify the exact impa…

Have you actually used and looked into AWS? There are dozens of services that do a lot more than just what people generally think of as "the cloud".

I think it is much more likely that businesses are readjusting for the new reality of customer expectations regarding media: cheap, on demand, and cheap. Customers don't care about…

The analogy is ok, but mostly fails because as a developer, we are not paid commission for each line of code written. Whereas taxi drivers have a very strong profit motive to act e…

Regardless of its "technical" or "economic" definition, to the layman and all its users, Bitcoin is treated, traded, and consumed as money. The exact origins of Bitcoin do not chan…

Actually, from your basic set of requirements, you just feature creeped your design to death. Let me take a shot at it: Learn enough HTML to make a GET request. Know enough PHP to …

I would like to point out that all of your examples are of expanding industries, not industries that underwent large societal, cultural, and legal transformations into entirely dif…

The general literature on deflation is that deflation is much much worse in the long run. In particular, borrowing becomes significantly more difficult and those who have loans are…