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When you say it's "obvious why this happens" are you referring to racism or something else?

So you'd rather be dead than poor? If you find yourself taking this thought seriously and you're in the US, you can call 1-800-273-8255. Please take care.

Again, with "quality" versus "quantity" it sounds like you're saying that there could be a lower quantity of people (some people die) in order to increase the quality of life for o…

"Is life worth living if you're destitute and living in poverty or emotional turmoil?" It sounds like you're saying you think maybe poor people should just die.

"The activity was sanctioned because of the oversight" seems to work for me with both meanings of 'oversight'

That was a separate news story from a couple weeks ago. "Late Upper Paleolithic occupation at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago" "The stemmed projectile points closely …

The US also broke up Ma Bell in 1956, forcing the spinoff of Bell Canada and Caribbean operations, and before that in 1925, breaking off other international operations into ITT.

I think that's called interacting with people over the normal course of business, and isn't something that's thought of as requiring specific targeted effort.

Even during the cold war, Americans did business with Russia. No large computers or munitions, but Americans still ate Russian caviar. There was this call to boycott it at the same…

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Even on El Capitan, I was able to unlock with "root" on my first try. From there, I could add a new admin user. This seems... not good.

In the late 90s, my high school used a system called NovaNET, which was based on PLATO. It was used for individual learning, special education, etc. I learned a bit of Russian with…

EBCDIC seems elegant in its own way: http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/cardint.htm (scroll down) -- apparently it's descended from IBM punch card formats. The discontinuity in the alph…

«“It’s an epic act of generosity and altruism,” says Don Bacigalupi, the museum effort’s president. “George Lucas, as with any person of great resources and great success, could ch…

I have a tool to make this text, though I'll admit I never even thought about decomposing inputs like ü and then recomposing them after Fraktur-izing. http://mar.cx/unicate/ or htt…

103 years ago, the UK government nationalized the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Telephone_Company . Within two years of that, the US justice department managed to extract …

It seems ever-so-slightly ironic that support for exotic architectures is considered a plus in this case, while support for exotic architectures is being ripped out of the OpenSSL/…

This video with Rowan Atkinson contains all sorts of bad truck-related naming ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R5tUc1S3cc

Selective enforcement can be a big problem in lots of areas, especially anywhere where race or class come into play. The flipside is that if people gradually move into parking over…

This is by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis , who's done some amazing documentary work in the past, asking a lot of "big questions" like this.

One of D's improvements upon C/C++ is its ability to enforce "deep const-ness".

"Would you prefer to not have the choice to have access to this feature, and prevent others from having it too?" Yes, I would prefer that. LinkedIn has not shown itself to be a par…

OK, this turned out to be not that hard, just completely unfamiliar for me (having last used Tomcat in 2002). apt-get install tomcat7 tomcat7-admin; sudo $EDITOR /etc/tomcat7/tomca…