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Congress did pass a law decades ago allowing federal prosecutors to face civil suits for cases like this but the Supreme Court subsequently just said nah, prosecutors are exempt fr…

All decentralized domain systems by definition do not address universality and thus require a change in user behavior. The core idea is a return to pre-internet naming where "Sal's…

As long as you don't mind the astronomical operating cost once such a system reaches the scale of DNS, sure.

Unfortunately enforcement mechanisms for rental law in NYC are virtually non-existent so AirBNB and like are still rampant.

The problem is right there in the title: Global Housing Market . The commodification of housing has been disastrous. The cost to develop new housing and the length of time it takes…

The dynamic typing example doesn't have anything to do with dynamic typing and is in fact already a feature of some statically-typed programming languages.

You wouldn't schedule downtime for the middle of the day. You schedule downtime during your period of least usage.

An extra nine lines and extra runtime complexity just to avoid putting it in a comment.

This is a great example of why documentation is important though. If that comment had documented why 75 had been removed and what the impact of that was you would know how to addre…

It's very odd that you would group Hellen Keller in with facilitated communication. Keller communicated with many people without Anne Sullivan's help and was the author of many wor…

There is no bound on n, it always searches to INT_MAX regardless of n.

If you do any non-trivial devops works on cloud providers it's immediately obvious why this is nonsensical. Let's take the most basic example: auto-generated ids. Many resources in…

This configuration is for streets without enough room for a dedicated bike lane. An edge-lane road is as wide as a standard two-way with no bike lane.

It's been a while since we reinvented the wheel, hasn't it.

I've had the opposite experience living in Brooklyn and traveling to Europe. Saying I was from New York was boring but—Brooklyn being in vogue at the time—I quickly learned to be m…

I had a Game Gear growing up and 3 hours is way more battery life than I ever got out of that thing. 1 hour is more in-line with my experience.

The strike price is now higher than the sale price for most employees and former employees so practically they cannot sell.

This doesn't inhherently have anything to do with inheritance. Delegation is the compositional solution to this problem and some languages do have built in sugar for that. It usual…

To be fair, that's really more of a python-specific deficiency than a general problem with significant whitespace. Haskell for example interprets further-indented lines as a contin…

You might want to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_bear_attacks_in_... then. Note that the bear article is limited by region and only to fatal attacks because a …

As of 3.0 you can apparently run docker-compose directly against podman in daemon mode (thought I haven't tried it).

"I'm out of town this weekend, you can use my apartment" does not grant somebody unlimited permission to use your apartment. The supreme court is working backwards from their concl…

Switzerland has heavy restrictions on owning ammunition, it is not comparable to the US

This is exactly the case where you don't need a library. This is a single function (or two) and you can easily translate an existing code example into the language you're using in …

This is not true. When the smallpox vaccine was being rolled out many restaurants, social clubs, and other places of congregation required proof of vaccination.