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This is totally wrong. Previous Supreme Court decisions, especially Gonzales v. Raich, have set a pretty clear precedent that the Federal Government has the authority to criminaliz…

The US can't default because it prints the currency it's debt is denominated in.

Is that with the 'Infinity' screen or whatever they called it? I just got the 1080p one and don't use scaling. I had a Yoga with a hidpi screen and agree that a bunch of programs j…

I have an XPS 13 and run Linux on it. The drivers for the touchpad were very rough with the version of Ubuntu it shipped with, but updating to a Kernel version > 4 fixed all my pro…

It would be difficult (maybe impossible?) to do given the US's Federal system of dividing powers between State governments and the National government. The Federal Department of Ju…

If you're interested in other things IPRA 'investigates', some people have FOIA'ed Chicago police misconduct complaints and created visualizations based on the data[1]. [1] http://…

There is no national body that oversees police, but Chicago has the Independent Police Review Authority. However IPRA rarely upholds complaints against police (it's staffed by ex-c…

Unless I'm totally missing the point of the instant search feature, this is definitely something you can do in Emacs[1], and something I believe I've seen co-workers do in Sublime.…

Also the person in charge of lighting on a film set.

Cider (for Clojure) and Ensime (for Scala) give you excellent support for auto-completion, documentation, and refactoring in Emacs. It's definitely possible, so it probably just de…

Russia was also one of the least industrialized countries in Europe in 1900 and had about 27 Million people killed in the Second World War vs about 400 Thousand Americans. This is …

If companies don't want to use code licensed under the GPL, they're probably welcome to pay the original the author for a separate license.

Yes it's a client for the WhatsApp API, presumably reverse engineered from the what the official app does.

No Google forked Webkit into Blink[1] about two years ago. [1] http://www.chromium.org/blink

Why would private regulators be more efficient? Regulation will always seem inefficient no matter the nature of the regulating agency because it has different goals (ensuring safet…

That email contains no evidence to back its claims.

Most states have their own FOIA laws. [1] [1] http://www.nfoic.org/state-freedom-of-information-laws

Why can't the rich have express-ways and make the poor drive dirt roads?

MBTI doesn't have tons of issues. It's entirely unscientific.[1] [1] http://www.indiana.edu/~jobtalk/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/deve...

The American invasion if Iraq, whose planning and execution Condeleeza Rice was involved in was clearly a violation of the UN charter, which prohibits aggressive action by one nati…

You can use CORS [1] on browsers that support it. [2] You really should use it if at all possible given your application's constraints, so you don't have to abuse GET requests and …

It ia not thorny. Discriminating on the basis of race is immoral. Period. You cannot determine someone's character or how they fit into an establishment's 'vibe' simply based on th…

For a and b you should check our core.match [1] and core.typed [2]. One of the best parts of using lisps is that things that are features of other languages can be implemented as l…

I really couldn't imagine that Yahoo would be liable for copyright infringement on user submitted content. Assuming they have a process for Porn Companies to submit DMCA Takedown n…