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A reasonable requirement which leads to "run everything in VMs" is the need to support on-premise deployments. Often data-security and compliance requirements can be handled most r…

Link to scientific paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65976-0

You make the owner responsible. I.e. if the driver can be identified (or the owner identifies the driver) then you can fine the driver, otherwise you fine the owner.

The type of ventillators required by the most serious cases are much more complicated: as I understand it, it involves push a tube down to the lungs, and the machine breathing inst…

Any suggestions for MDM for Linux laptops? Most device management solutions I have seen are for either Windows or Mac, but is there one that is accepted by auditors and is not utte…

I would assume the "engineers vs accounts" is due to the output not being intended for the coders, but the managers. I.e. you only have accounts for the managers, but you price bas…

An easy solution to that is to find a homeless person nearby and use fake IDs -- i.e. bribe someone else do the transaction instead of you

About the accident in Hungary: the police investigation has been apparently closed, and the cause was ruled to be pilot error (If I understand it correctly, they did a too severe t…

Every experiment will be based on some sort of theory: without that, you can't design the equipment, and you wouldn't be able to interpret the data that is generated. If by "so far…

Someone mentioned before (in a comment on another similar news item) that although the rocket is tall, after landing most of its mass is at the bottom: the engines are heavy, while…

Two aspects one might consider when designing a tax is to make sure that it affects each person slightly, so that it won't be worth it for them to protest against it from a cost-be…

Without knowing more about the data, one possible cause might be sim cards that are not used by actual humans, but for example by smart meters, security equipment, etc., which only…

Consider the difference between income and profit. For the present value calculation, you would need to use the profit, not the revenue. (After all, once you take the payout, you d…

I think Knuth's up-arrow notation (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation ) can be considered a newer way of representing numbers, and it continues the progre…

Could you given an example for a CMS that you consider good in this regard? Hierarchies are a very powerful information-organization tool, so although I agree that not everything s…

Why would a new OS lower the price of the phones? Its the hardware that is expensive. In addition, in case of Nexus smartphones, it looks more like Google subsidised them, lowering…

Being able to call libraries in language A from language B is only half of the solution. Automatic compatibility layers won't be able to convert semantic differences between the la…

How exactly? Due to django's "we want the templating system be general, to be usable for stuff other than html", it can't provide support for such 'guarantee that the output is wel…

This idea was scrapped after some public polling, see: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h... Some blame the result of the polls on fears that the idea would give …

What would be the difference between such a flat tax and inflation? If you want to tax everything that is denominated in US dollars, simply print more money and allow a higher rate…

I would use whichever errs in favor of the customer. Its only one cent, after all.

but that kind of hubristic "we can calculate the probabilities of all failure modes" thinking is one of the reasons I'm not a big fan of nuclear. Would you be more comfortable with…