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And their risks as well.

IMHO, the reason is not really to protect US manufacturers. It is about long-running negative balance of trade between US and the rest of the world. Protectionism rhetoric is a sug…

I guess this may happen if browser doesn't accept third-party cookies.

This propagation delay does not really matter as long as neighboring power plants are synchronized with each other. Yes, east coast and west coast are out of phase, but only to a p…

If the ledger is centralized, what is the advantage of using blockchain?

There are regulations for casinos as well.

Or Holy Bible for that matter.

In a way, Holy Church has been doing it for ages.

When breaking with engine, the kinetic energy of movement is converted to heat not via friction (like breaks do) but via compressing air in cylinders which does not cause extra wea…

What about Opium wars?

Perhaps since this practice got exposed, other countries became less willing to cooperate. With such a treaty in place it will be more difficult to say no.

Good joke!

XMPP is even better example than IMAP.

Do you think folks currently participating in murders will put their guns down once they run our of drug dealers/addicts? This policy is akin to starting fire in a house to get rid…

Perhaps “random fluctuations” are as much random as Brownian motion. I.e. there is cause and effect on a finer level (yet not possible to probe with current techniques), however a …

I believe this comment is not directed to people who are trying to create something, but to people who feel entitled/special because they are trying to create something they percei…

Can be also luck on first try, while all subsequent attempts are "regression towards the mean" as Kahneman puts it. However I agree with the idea that being motivated by the proces…

Aren't these worthy endeavours resource-starved because most of resources are being spent on less worthy endeavours which involve competition?

It is not a big deal as long as seemingly identical file names are treated by OS as different. Unicode normalization is not the only problem here, e.g. Latin 'a', 'e', 'T' are exac…

Wonder if anyone is going to do the opposite - try to buy off pro-global-warming professor to produce exaggerated doomsday prediction - and what the outcome is going to be.

The cash one exchanges for shares of a public company is usually spent on paying wages, buying equipment, funding R&D etc, thus enabling future growth. If one happens to invest int…

As for differentiation of goods in Soviet Union it went as: - made in USSR: hard to buy - made in USSR for export: takes a bribe to buy - made in Soviet block countries (DDR, Czech…

What you say about intelligence vaguely resembles genetic algorithm... or I just saw a pattern similarity where none exists :)

The only problem is that hardware to verify ECU code is an actual car of particular model with equipment to analyse exhaust. Or very precise mathematical model of it which would be…