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It may make finding security vulnerabilities a bit easier. Other than that I can't really think of use cases either for the code bases I've worked on.

Games do tend to have more interesting storylines than "oh its just people being stupid again." IRL, Hanlon's razor often works.

I would assume that his blog posts are what convinced quite a few people to actually buy the book. That said, I'm not too familiar with the book sales industry. I am familiar with …

None of them are religious. Negative selection bias as in people who are less capable to maintain long term relationships are more likely to have a lot of dating history. Conversel…

Do you have any data to back that up that you can share? I don't mean to call you out, it could very well be the case, people date in rather not-understandable ways to me. What you…

One factor that I didn't see addressed in the post which does make a significant impact is that men in general rate women more similarly than women rate men. See for example: https…

> “History has not been kind to technology companies who do not continue to grow. Technology companies either grow or they die. There is no middle option.” This is hopefully beyond…

>Europe has high import tariffs The EU has a weighted import tariff of 1.79% vs 1.66% in the US. For comparison, China is at 3.83% and Japan at 2.51%. Canada, New Zealand and Austr…

In Europe quite a few "pirate parties" popped up about a decade ago. None of them were too successful as far as I know, at least in The Netherlands they didn't mention to gain a si…

Did patio11 start working at Google instead of Stripe? More seriously though, it looks like people are overwhelmingly not happy about this change. Google already launched a special…

Like some of the other comments already mentioned, its indeed on a per distance basis. Also traffic accidents are far more deathly if you're walking basically naked from a safety p…

For almost everyone 18-40 year old, driving less is one of the healthiest decisions you can make. A little nitpick: Motorcycling, cycling, and walking are all significantly worse t…

I forgot to mention, my experiences are all based on EU countries. When we worked with US companies, we would occasionally joke that a 2 year tenure is considered long at the US co…

While the times are definitely changing, a lot of people are still very averse to finding a new workplace. This means that even at a 1% raise per year, some people will stick aroun…

>>is what we're seeing today just a passing trend or a fundamental shift? Facebook advertised to Walmart with union busting capabilities. Walmart has a union busting history going …

>>Section 1: The policy of the United States is to be carried out "by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise by workers of f…

Would the following theoretically work? 1. Monitor all transactions in the public pool for their fees. 2. As soon as their is a public transaction in the pool that has over 1M$ in …

If you publish your transaction publicly then any miner can get the fees from that transaction. If you send your transaction only to your preferred miner, then only your preferred …

>>As mentioned previously, I’d be in favor of a model wherein if AWS chose to enforce the non-compete, they’d be required to pay the former employee their full compensation for the…

One more factor I would recommend to take into account is when the store restocks. For where I live, the supermarket I usually go to always restocks Tuesday mornings, sometimes on …

> There is a chat group of a few dozen authors who in subsets work on common topics and carefully ensure not to co-author any papers with each other so as to keep out of each other…

You're right, thanks!

I'm not a physicist. I did get curious and went to Wikipedia. You're mostly spot on: >It covers an area of almost 14 million square kilometres (5.4 million square miles) and contai…