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So it's not sexist if men and women are different, as long as it's "immune system functions" and not "statistical behaviors at work"? How did you arrive at the distinction?

You're at the oldest edge, and you were 25 when you had your first child. If the oldest of the group had to have children under the median, then only those who had children young h…

I think you slightly misunderstood the GPs point: we should care about the dangers, but we should teach them to autistic children in concepts and ways they understand, and focus on…

> The patents are, but their ownership does not have to be. I disagree. It's important that people be able to determine whether the patent is in use or held by an NPE that's obliga…

Your guess about the connotations is correct.

I think you just said no, but included a recipe to do exactly that. My fear is your fear, I just phrased it more generally, while what you said is one of the specific forms making …

The story "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream" is about two computer systems set on opposite sides of a war, and driven to extremes until one of them became self-aware, the birth o…

You can file as a not-for-profit social purposes organization (to incorporate at the state level) without electing to take on IRS non-profit status -- you just need to pay taxes st…

For the record, I looked at the Wesnoth codebase in college, so my opinions are outdated (by 5+ years) but not unfounded. Rather, I'm merely repeating why I didn't help then, inste…

Isn't Battle for Wesnoth looking for C++ programmers to maintain their codebase? It's not that I don't have significant programming skills myself, nor that I don't work on side pro…

> I don't think history bears that out. Society is a soft ductile metal. If you bend it, it'll stay bent. You have to hammer it back into straightness. Talking (and browbeating and…

I suppose my point is merely that I believe there are colorable arguments to bring forth to hold both WB and their lawyers accountable for these antics, if you look at the text of …

> 17.c.3.v A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, …

WB failed to properly certify that they made a best effort at truth: their machines fundamentally are more error prone than they could be, and thus WB didn't spend a reasonable eff…

I generally got excellents on performance reviews for my brief, entry level stint at Big Corp. I still felt demotivated by the whole process, because it was a forced ranking of the…

My point, since you missed it, is the instrumenting a "war on warez" in the style of "war on drugs" or "war on terror" is a joke, and should be disregarded as just the talking poin…

> I'm not sure if you're actually this dense or just trolling. What good can involving the police, after the fact, in a situation where nobody was harmed do? People who do one reck…

Yes, we need a war on warez to go with our wars on terror and drugs, which have been rousing successive, having driven both of those social ills to extinction.

I actually think that marketers have simply gotten better.

This is simply a perspective on systems engineering. My argument would be that part of the system is always down, the question is which part and how long, and how that impacts the …

I'm just saying that you omitted a major component, as no one would argue that the trade-off in engineering time isn't one of the main cost-benefit components of considering AWS (a…

I don't believe maintaining a high availability system with proper checking is less than 3 hours a day of work, or ~10% of someone's time on duty if we're talking around the clock.…

To be honest, I think OpenBSD is ahead on some fronts (research on security mechanisms, for instance), but the reason that I tend to use FreeBSD is that it actually works with soft…

I just want to comment that I only clicked on the article after reading your comment about the original title, and I feel that the edited title less accurately reflects the materia…

...then what? I'm not sure what problem you think you're solving here: the existence of a queue suggests that they're slightly over capacity in cars, and thus something like Uber w…