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Is there an aricle with specifics on this and why it was done?

I never understood why cookies receive so much attention in various privacy discussions. They are the one thing the user has full control over. Yes it takes some effort to delete t…

What you're saying isn't wrong, but I doubt that societies where rulers have a monopoly on violence have existed long enough to have had an impact on evolution.

> That suspicion is not a personal failing any more than a software QA tester who doesn't trust the latest build. There’s no reason to assume software being innocent/bug-free unles…

Maybe that's because gluing together limbs is still an open research issue while gluing together ideas is merely a mental excercise?

There’s probably a lot more than what is obvious here. Compare a modern clip to something that was made in the 70/80s. I guess it does take some skill to not end up with 2 bodies j…

I agree with the sentiment. Charging for pirated content is among the worst things someone can do. It’s also why I was at least a little bit glad when the megaupload/rapidshare sit…

We did/do that in German too. Some people still ended up being offended. Go figure.

> a malfunctioning sandbox is worse than useless Are there any sandboxes in existence which are definitely not worse than useless?

So graphical programming counts as not programming these days.

Chrome OS and Android may seem similar from a distance – they’re technically similar and do similar things, but they have very different goals. Android was trying to imitate iOS an…

> As for where the money comes from, doesn't that just fall out of supply and demand? As demand for electricity increases, prices will go up, funding the infrastructure improvement…

There's bound to be people out there (other than me) that hate dealing with other humans - let alone other humans who barely understand the language you speak, have bad hearing and…

Reading that article, isn't that what Rich Hickey would call "incidental" (and thus bad) complexity?

> 'continuous tactics' I think the words you're looking for are "micromanagement" (if it's about dealing with more than one unit) and "mechanical skill" if it's about having twitch…

Except that atoms are not homogenous entities. Even assuming you'd somehow manage to produce and combine atoms to a spec, there's positively no way of obtaining that spec.

> Let's exclude things like rigorous scientific studies for the purpose of the discussion and focus on day-to-day human reasoning I think you'll need to look at the other end of th…

> I think that in 99% of cases a traditional storage engine approach works just fine. We all tried to reinvent the wheel, but ultimately it turned out to be a lot of work for fairl…

I feel exactly like you, and I'm glad I'm not alone. For some reason though we're the exception here. Most people seem to have enjoyed ME2 more than ME1 because nobody seems to car…

> Why would a human? Because evolution graced (cursed?) us with a reward system and parents that utilize (abuse?) it. Having something capable of high-level reasoning, while free f…

> Doing that is still abuse Based on what? I'm not for drugging people and using them as zombies. And obviously drugging people against their will is already forcing onto them some…

How do you pull the plug on a self-driving car? You asume that computers will remain tied to a wall socket, which may not be necessarily true forever. And even if, given all the bu…

You use so many words, yet none of them with precise meaning. > none of it is elegant What is "elegant" to you? A biological brain, for all intents and purposes, is a big mess. By …

> Historically, slavery never worked out for anyone, at least not in the long term. This is a rather contentious point I think. "We" wouldn't be the "developed" part of the world h…

> despite decades of working solutions Which "working" solutions? Has anyone solved creating a type system that offers OO/inheritance, generics, mutability and isn't mind-bogglingl…