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The US president is both Head of State and Head of Government. It turns out there's a bunch of countries that require the head of state to be a natural born citizen: https://en.wik…

Surely having human-resource backups will also help with disaster recovery

or directly in powershell, `Start-Process myproc.exe -Environment @{ FOO = 'bar' }`

These phish testing companies always stick a header (X-PHISH-TEST or some such) on the email so the email server can white-list -- easy to just Outlook blackhole filter anything wi…

"Our biochem corpus is far in advance of theirs, as is our electronic sentience, and their 'ethical inflexibility' has allowed us to make progress in areas they refuse to consider.…

I'm gonna wait until after Matt Levine tells me to know what I think about this.

Any day now Equifax is going down. The real difference is that humans have some institutional power over political jurisdictions and how they are run and exactly none over how (lar…

If you want to hold a long-term personal boycott against Volkswagon for immoral business practice, I assure you there are better reasons than the diesel emissions testing scandal.

Who are the private organizations buying road salt/salting services to within even two orders of magnitude of municipalities/state govts?

This is an unfortunate analogy given how complicated and poorly understood the heat-affects-food chemical reactions are. And yet food gets cooked.

Why not? Money is a social contruct, but dollars to donuts, populations with less of it will have lower vaccine efficacy.

Oh yeah, if I knew that Frank's Red Hot was gonna give me a 1 in 4 chance of immortality, I would have been eating so much more rice and beans.

If MS wants to peel developers away from the apple store, why wouldn't they support apple being allowed to maintain their onerous percentage?

Ah well there isn't one, from any divergent series you can construct a more slowly growing (but still divergent) series.

putting aside the farce of judiciary-as-non-political-body, why wouldn't this also be a battle for the legislatures to consider?

Well maybe there was an annular region there in the 90s when the FBI's mission was still in-between 'try to assassinate black activists', and 'give fake bombs to muslim teenagers a…

seems unlikely while Epic Systems vs. Lewis remains US law

No, I'm very sorry report that there are exactly zero areas of human action, practice, or thought that aren't infested with ideology.

Well even cookie-cutter houses used to be pretty nice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Modern_Homes

This sort of thing exists! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Synchrotron_Light_Sou...

PC as in IBM PC compatible

Well, you're both right. In that the purpose of all this military spending is to make the world safe for Dow, Exxon, and US Fruit, and people who live in the imperial core get chea…