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Sorry, I don't get it. What's the chain of reasoning that connects "there are a couple of new Linux local privilege escalation exploits" to "don't install any new software"? Is the…

> If you had decided up front to not ship until all these features were in place it wouldn't change the work at all in most cases In my experience (of primarily web dev), this is n…

> Building a piece of software is or at least was orders of magnitudes more expensive than maintaining it This feels ludicrously backwards to me, and also contrary to what I've alw…

Ah, right, sorry, I misunderstood the definition of "axle weight" I got when I hurriedly googled it even though the name should've made the meaning obvious.

More importantly, employees with options are generally not sophisticated enough to realise liquidation preferences may exist and may dramatically devalue the common stock options t…

Liquidation preferences that merely guarantee you get back the cash you put in before anyone else gets anything are a perfectly reasonable protection for investors. Otherwise, the …

At the heavy end, SUVs weigh about 3 tonnes, while at the light end buses weigh about 12, a 4x difference. 4^4 = 256. So if the claim about the fourth power is true, you'd need to …

I certainly claim that almost nobody "commits" that "fallacy" and that it is not a remotely notable viewpoint in the civic discourse of any country I know about. No doubt in a worl…

How did the title end up wrong on HN (schemes vs scenes) and what's the mechanism to get a mod to fix it?

I would guess that what matters most is stops for driving disqualified/uninsured/unregistered, DUI, running lights, and failing to yield (especially at crosswalks), and perhaps for…

Well, actually, no, not everyone is free to use alternatives. Anyone using CI for "Trusted Publishing" of packages to PyPI or npm needs to use GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD. Circl…

The 30% figure is "correct" if you look at the absolute number of deaths instead of deaths per VMT. But I basically agree with you; that clearly the wrong stat to cite if you are a…

2020 wasn't just the start of Covid, but also the start of BLM. The narrative I always see from the American right is that BLM caused many police forces across the US to radically …

I assume you're an American? As a Brit, your comment confuses me. Why would anyone ever have high beams on at all in anything reasonably described as a "neighbourhood"? Do built-up…

Hmm. That'd be pretty nasty to be on the receiving end of (and may well have been an outrageous abuse of executive power), but still, an administrative freeze is temporary and is n…

> Why was the clause included if it's completely redundant? It's not and I didn't suggest it was. It gives the NSF itself the ability to litigate discrimination by grantees (in ord…

The burden of proof is "on the balance of probabilities" in both cases as far as I know, and there's no limit in principle on how high a breach of contract case can be appealed. Of…

I don't understand what you're trying to say. It's obviously possible for the extremely weak claim made by statement 2 to be true (i.e. for some non-zero number of "deserving" nonw…

A point made deep in a comment thread by user "rck" below deserves to be a top-level comment - the clawback clause explicitly applies ONLY to violations of existing law: > NSF rese…

Uh, what? There's no contradiction, or even tension, between these three positions: 1. "DEI is about taking jobs from white people and giving them to undeserving others" 2. "the de…

Lots of open-source projects today contain (usually in docs, code comments, or metadata) repo URLs like this: git://github.com/debug-js/debug.git These URLs are broken. "git://" is…

Well, not necessarily, on your last sentence. It might also be theft, depending on the precise nefarious purpose and on the jurisdiction. If you take somebody else's property witho…

Why? I don't understand the objection to this. If the app was sending off any data to Notion without consent, that would obviously be a privacy issue, but why is it a problem for a…