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You mean like a prediction market? Yes, hundreds.

Two-spirit !== homosexual Also, Maya !== North American First Nations

It's funny that you would pick boinc (a rotten mashup of C and PHP with no formal spec) as your exemplar of a distributed system.

It's really very simple. If the evidence is not ignored, it's an incentive for illegal searches. > if he finds a a photo of you and a corpse it shouldn't be ignored just because se…

Look, you eggheads can whine about China's economy all you want, fact is, "power projection"/"force projection" is a _military term_ for the ability to assert military force in a g…

It's a wry/sarcastic idiom, like calling the Atlantic Ocean "the pond". Nobody actually thinks the Atlantic Ocean is a pond.

You're just guessing. Hint: look up the fourth amendment.

No, this is an important example of the protections afforded by the system, along with things like having access to the evidence being used against you. Secret tribunals and wireta…

Unless by "dwarf" you mean "less than 10% more" and by "myriad" you mean "exactly one", I invite you to join those of us who live in the real world. You don't have to like Amtrak, …

vzw actually is a different company, which is partly owned by vz. Fba/fgte are practically separate companies too. I worked for fba (former bell Atlantic) for years and can attest,…

Most good audio software is for Mac. Maybe Windows, but then Windows.

That is quite interesting. I built a hackintosh in 2011 after a lot of research (hoping to use it to produce music if possible) and the only thing that gave me significant trouble …