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My guess is the grandparent is (mis-)remembering the kerfuffle[0] around mongo shipping a copy of PG as a "BI Connector". But yeah, the timeline is off, that was in 2015. 0: https:…

That was then. Try and find a post-Cold-War instance of the US deciding to usurp free and fair elections for our own economic or security purposes. We weren't doing it for the fun …

>Scientists have long claimed that our ability with numbers is indeed biologically evolved – that we can count because counting was a useful thing for our brains to be able to do. …

Strictly staying within US law is not the only thing that the US intelligence apparatus tries to do. There are also agreements not to monitor the citizens of "Five-Eyes" citizens i…

I don't even think that's particularly controversial. The concentration of tech startups in SF has been devastating for the city, and has distorted every aspect of early-stage tech…

Can you clarify what you mean? How are we not left with determinism at a fundamental level? (And if it starts with a Q, then at most one can say is that it's possible that it's not…

Assange is not a US citizen.

Here's the actual source document. https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FI... It appears to be proper judicial oversight of national security operations. Unsur…

That's just not true. The first credible reporting on the existence of the investigation came from CNN, 10 days prior to Comey's testimony in March.

On one hand, yes, our political divisions no doubt make that kind of information warfare campaign tempting. On the other hand, it's already pissed us off something fierce, and I th…

I find myself self-censoring on topics like this, not because of what I (don't) fear is being done by authorities, but because I can't help but to note that we're not, in fact, liv…

My siblings in this thread need to learn about the reforms that were done post-Watergate. The rule of law governs everyone, especially law enforcement, in the USA. If you don't bel…

If this was illegal surveillance, then obviously it wasn't within the scope of what's allowed by said anti-terror laws. This doesn't add up for me yet, because I don't understand w…

Why? Per the article in the Guardian, the Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating the claims. I'll note that the corroboration was passwords of politically active…

>blindly trusting "the data" This phrase is not coherent. Doing something blindly would literally be to do something without data.

Towards any end at all. IRL, there are no points for effort, and certainly no points for purity of intent. The proof is in the pudding. And so, no, I don't see good/effective polit…

Pragmatism is a principle.

> Normally I'm impressed by Bill Gates' thinking, but this seems half-baked. I would submit that that has more to do with the summarizing/simplifying/editing done by Quartz to repr…

> How does it compare to the usual default settings of PostgreSQL for example? - I think you get SERIALIZABLE, so the behaviour should be very reasonable. Not clear if you're refer…

Why wouldn't it be fair use? What exactly is your understanding of what the criteria are?

Thanks for the writeup. I've never used Linode, but I recognized lots of echoes of my own experience with AWS, with the big point being something that isn't always given the import…

Just put them all on the same list and use negative points for the rewards. A spreadsheet would work perfectly.

Links?

Sources please. The clear consensus is that AGW is real. That is a far cry from saying that there is a clear consensus that it must be dealt with ever, let alone that it must be de…

I'm sure he means infscroll using keyset pagination. The UX, as noted, is ugly - have to somehow support scrolling in both directions with some sort of lazy-loading - but paginatio…