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The NRA is against anything which gets in the way of a patriot and their duty. RFID and similiar 'safety' features can be used by the government to identify gun owners, confiscate …

I can't seem to find any description of the service it provides anywhere on the site. I had to find the twitter account to even know what it does: Easy database backends with power…

Even if you only run eBay for cats, you probably secretly believe you can become the equivalent of Facebook in your particular space, and feel that what you need is a room full of …

Probably because it's advertising.

I don't think the CIA cares about our jeebs.

No it isn't, it's the way open source is supposed to work. There being 92 pages of routers doesn't stop anyone from picking the most popular and well-maintained one. Almost anyone …

That's not a problem, that's a feature. Competition between frameworks and libraries ensures that there are multiple solutions to meet multiple needs, and also that consensus, wher…

Uber's entire premise seems to be that a regulated market is by definition a corrupt one, that the "crime" lies in following the laws, not breaking them. One person's "organized cr…

>Apparently PHP is now verbose enough that people feel the need to write code templates for it It isn't though. PHP is many things but overly verbose isn't one of them * . Although…

That doesn't mean it's ridiculously easy to attach a transaction to a specific person. If it were, sites like Silk Road would never even exist.

Which would you rather have? Police enforcing the laws, or police enforcing whatever they personally felt was right? If you disagree with the morality of a law, fine - but your ass…

What proof is there that the police are not putting any effort into tracking down the perpetrators?

That is completely true. But the police don't arrest people for breaking ethical principles, they arrest people for breaking laws. So also, in context, not entirely relevant.

The “police have been devoting a huge amount of resources to track down peaceful people engaged in voluntary trade like Charlie Shrem and the operators of the Silk Road Market,” Ve…

To the degree that people believe it exists, it's real. I've met some people I would consider 'brogrammers', they ran a Bitcoin-based startup no one will have ever heard of, and th…

I think the 'success' was being able to delay the crack long enough for Christmas sales. Although whether the crack would have affected those sales considerably might be debatable.…

Not all of it. Some of it, maybe. And given that they've forked PHP maybe even less than some. PHP sometimes doesn't get the credit it deserves for what can be accomplished with it…