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Here's my thoughts on how Flock and related tech should be handled. Nothing gets stored unless there's a specific judicial warrant. They can take a pic of my license plate, I'm in …

I wonder what it would cost in the US to have a pint of blood taken - I can't donate. Guess I could do it myself...

>I still haven't figured out how he's profiting from Trump Accounts yet I would guess that he could have been paid in many various ways (TrumpCoins anyone) by financial institution…

This is a serious answer, even though it sounds smart-assish: How likely is it the resolution was money flowing to the correct people? and a follow-up: How likely is it that the bl…

They also at some point purchased Pivotal Cloud Foundry and increased the licensing costs by incredible (order of magnitude) amounts. They are completely destroying their customer …

>The ones deeply interested in the subject would likely skip college anyway Spoken like a true software engineer ;), there are jobs where you have to have a degree to get the job. …

>In hindsight, I would definitely declare today that we WERE winning it when we were fighting it. Now that we don't, we're getting massacred. LOL, no, we've never even been in a wi…

> they have managed to bake in more toxic features Twitter ever did in such a short timespan. Not arguing, just curious - what toxic features are you talking about?

>While I don't personally support the examples that I am aware of, I also recognize that in those specific cases the executive branch appears to be within the bounds of the law. I …

And if everywhere they went would do the same thing, then they wouldn't be able to leave. Too bad people have been convinced that unions are bad.

>It is much cheaper to pay a small monthly fee to a SaaS company. It's not that cut and dried - it all depends on what your company needs from SaaS and how big it is. SaaS companie…

I haven't used Scala for quite a while now - but a while back they had a serious asshole problem with a lot of the community.

I don't want to nitpick, but they didn't say "healthy", and I think the current situation wrt news ownership should be called out at every opportunity, because not everyone is awar…

>It's much easier to successfully bribe/coerce/undermine a single individual running an independent newsletter like this than it is an entire newsroom. Except the problem in the US…

The problem with your statement is there's no way to know - the reality is it could have been a bribe or lack of a bribe; it could have been an actual foreign policy decision based…

I don't think anyone would argue with that - the problem here is that the requirements are being changed thru a process that involves no public or congressional input. The other is…

Debuggers are great when you can use them. Where I work (financial/insurance) we are not allowed to debug on production servers. I would guess that's true in a lot of high security…

>if you can rent cheaply enough for 10-20 years the boomers will start dying in sufficient numbers that if there is somehow no reversion on home prices in the mean time there shoul…

A GUI can be as effective as a TUI if it's designed to be 100% usable from a keyboard - the problem is very few applications take the time to do that design.

This will sound like I'm joking, but I'm not. It seems like with this administration, having the regulators reverse their decision wouldn't be that hard, especially with a "donatio…

Serious question - it seems that many of this Administrations activities are illegal in some way or the other. I know that government officials are shielded from a lot of actions s…

For the curious, I checked some prices on the maytags - a little less than 3,000 USD for the front loader, the Speed Queen commercial ones were cheaper.

That's an insane amount - how old is the dryer? I've replaced two heating elements in my ~9 year old Samsung dryer, I think the heating elements were less than 50 USD. I did the la…

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Unless you try to cheap out, then you end up costing yourself more in the long run, lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/161_Maiden_Lane