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Otherwise, you have to choose: either you invite one adult from the household, but then the other may be unaware of the event details, or you invite both, but then you must rely on…

and did you see the transparency report Google released with the censored bar on the secret us gov requests? I loved how you could see bits of the graph peeking through :)

Somehow I imagine the plan involves Brazil being able to tap the line...

Many industries (food, steel, electronics, energy, mining) are considered to have military strategic importance. For instance, Japan works very hard to grow rice even though it wou…

Forgive me for asking, but as there are tons, can someone point the relevant bits out? I've been following the news and I haven't seen any.

You are clearly a government plant spewing lies! Naw, just kidding. But that would be a deliciously ironic way to interpret your comment.

In his post above, he says temperpedic is 1.8 lb. so which is it, 8 or 1.8?

Okay but stop thinking in extremes for a second. Imagine I need a car and I hear there is a 30% off sale in January. Yes, I'll wait. Im considering the lost marginal value to me (k…

that's fine, its a public key :)

And don't forget air quality! Cow farts are a leading cause of greenhouse gases. Seriously.

I'd say it (the expensive treatment) was a basic need. A need that was not being met. You could tell it was a need because those who needed it but didn't get it would die.

Can you explain a bit more? I'm interested, but I'm interpreting your post as "helps with DNA copying so its good for cell reproduction means it causes cancer". I'm sure I have it …

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

Only partially true. You assume beef is an inelastic commodity; that we must consume our beef and will pay any price come hell or high water. True for some people, perhaps :P but o…

Thanks for sharing this! I'm curious to hear more. Could you share how (or to what extent) you got over your feeling of being taken advantage of?

This brings up an interesting question. what is the BATNA of these countries. That is, what is their recourse if nobody can agree?

I was unpleasantly surprised to see your post deliberately undoing the GP's attempt to obfuscate his number. Is your goal to bully GP into supporting privacy? It doesn't matter the…

I live in Brooklyn. They can't officially refuse. But you'd be shocked how many taxis meters stop working about 20 seconds into the journey....

it certainly answers your question. It's just not the answer you were looking for ;)

Your assertion would be better phrased as a conflict between short term and long term interests of the advertiser. That is, the short term interest of making money at the expense o…

Is there any check/balance on the definition of "criminal threat"? Because that's a pretty loose definition a priori. "We believe a terrorist exists in GB. That constitutes a crimi…

Here's my interpretation of GP: since every governmental org wants to snoop, it is not enough to "break away" from the US* because it doesn't solve the underlying problem: insecure…

This is a straw man, right? Not all bugs are payment security bugs. Not all bugs are harmful to users. And spending more time writing cleaner code does not mean you'll have fewer b…

I always thought it was like "patient 0". The day-counting started once the exploit was first exploited, meaning the first to exploit it was doing so on the 0th day.

I always thought it was like "patient 0". The day-counting started once the exploit was first exploited, meaning the first to exploit it was doing so on the 0th day.