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According to the paper, Meltdown can recover memory at about 500 kb/s

Negative income taxes generally mean high marginal net tax rates for low-income earners. In your example, there's a 20% marginal tax rate for people earning less than 60K.

I suspect that would only make things more difficult for the players as they game the AI to get it to do exactly what they want.

Expected utility is great, expected money is silly.

Dodgy pharmaceutical ads are some of the most profitable dodgy ads, so SEO spam sites are likely to have content related to marketing dodgy pharmaceuticals. Dodgy pharmaceutical si…

There's Neonflames: http://29a.ch/sandbox/2011/neonflames/

Dictionary.com says that "share" is from German, and "slave" is from Latin. No common origin.

I think that in areas where bigotry is a serious problem, not being bigoted might be more likely to drive off customers than being bigoted.

I think it's the heating element in a thermos; "fraguccino" uses the same technique.

"Designed by Apple in California" struck me as really weird when I saw it on a bus stop here in Australia.

If he serves the full 28 years, he's not likely to survive the sentence.

Governments usually try to work around that, including the staple food exception you mentioned, but that makes the whole system a mess of exceptions and exceptions-to-exceptions.

Well, I'd assume "Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director" is the secretary for the no. 2 at the MTC, which doesn't seem all that unreasonable. The "Program Assistant to the Dir…

The article never stated that they would do so.

Most of the computers in a defence facility are unclassified or restricted. The rules are different for secret/top secret.

The distinction between the two groups is not that clear. I suspect many users don't care too much, but if they stumble upon a "don't track me" option, they'll select it.

This particular law is hurting people far more than it's protecting them, but in general, laws are framed as trying to protect people because the purpose of laws in general is to p…

They talk about the money made storing aluminium in the warehouse, who's paying that? It sounds like Goldman owns both the aluminium and the warehouses, so all they're doing is buy…

What annoys me is keyboards that don't have a pause music button, but have a pause button that does precisely nothing.

Sure there can be an end. It'll end when enough people get fed up with it to demand an end, and the President follows through. As the memory of 9/11 fades in relevance and the wars…

I managed to do Circle Pack 7 in one fewer than the minimum: http://sciencevsmagic.net/geo/#0A1.1A0.0L1.1L5.5A1.5L8.0L4.5...

Their employees.

Just a spur of the moment thought, but can you encrypt the master password such that you need passwords from three of four (or any N of M) people to decrypt it?

Are you sure that min. speed isn't just for multiplayer? I don't see why the call-home would know or care how fast your internet is.

Eh, there could be good reason for that. Using a fake identity could arouse suspicion, even if it is advantageous once the rendition is discovered.