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Eh. Your construction is perhaps easier to understand if you've never used the language, and are trying to learn it just by reading arbitrary source code. But who writes code for s…

The correct solution would be to tell you what's happening. "Your data will be deleted in 24 hours. You can undo this deletion at any time before then."

There's a reason 'Phobia' is a clinical diagnosis, not a policy justification.

> Second: Six months, you say? Can any of us think of a cohort of job seekers that routinely needs to contend with 6+ month employment gaps? I wonder, maybe, just maybe, do you thi…

Man, $1 million is more money than I will ever need. So I'll do it for $3 million. Your move.

They wouldn't even need to trade securities. Just search the future data for some successful tech IPOs and then invest in those companies early and heavily. Returns would be fantas…

Or, one was a good salesman and the other was not. Or maybe the second one was strapped for cash and really needed the sale. I'd rather not theorize until we get some more data poi…

I played a different game called 'which one appeals to me more on first glance'. I ended up with a perfect 10/10 split. Could it be that different fonts will be more aesthetically …

My question is, what are you doing 'enjoy[ing] things that you can buy with money'? Hasn't it been well enough established that things don't make you happy? The Greeks figured that…

This sheds some light on this comment about the pawns: '(Move "forward" indicated in white.)' The 2006 picture has white lines and this new one doesn't.

This argues equally well for completely supporting the family indefinitely for any reason. The only difference between paying medical bills and paying for the whole lifestyle is a …

But then you can easily, heck trivially, argue that people should be forced to exercise or to eat a particular diet that makes them more productive. Look, more goods and services a…

"Thank you for your placing an order with NASDAQ. Please do not hit the back button or refresh this page, or your order may be registered more than once."

Hold on. I might have misread, but I thought the point was he -didn't lie-. He put 'Mensa' because he was in Mensa. It stood out because so many other people had an 'education' sec…

If the universe is infinite in size, does that automatically imply that it is infinite in mass? That is, I can imagine a mass distribution that decreases as it moves away from the …

Everyone who is getting angry, listen: This isn't a test for suitability for the position. It's a matter of signalling. This is a cheap test (surely can't take more than 5 minutes …

It's an interesting point about the speed. In this case, since it's just a function pointer, there's no polymorphic overhead, so avoiding branches is a no-brainer. On the other han…

I'm not clear on how that makes your code more maintainable though. The first case makes it explicit that any of the actions can fail to occur, whereas the second one, on first gla…

So all the clever people have concluded that this system is useless, because you can pull a gun on someone and force them to play the game. Not to mention: it's not even that much …

If my friend grows tomatoes in her back yard, should I be prohibited and fined for eating one without it first being inspected? Inspections are there because large institutions don…

"This is the problem of intelligent people doing stupid things for selfish reasons." I'm gonna disagree. What these people are doing is very much the smart thing to do. They make h…

This is actually really easy. "but I need to go out a lot (every day, or more, if I can help it" Therefore, you are an extrovert.

So you're planning to buy your kid a ferrari, because he wants it? Screw that. If my kid is the kind of person who wants a ferrari, that will motivate him to get rich and buy one. …

Okay lets do some simple math on this. If I buy a song off iTunes, the artist gets $.09 Every time I listen to it on Rhapsody, they get $.0022 Some quick division: .09/.0022 = ~41 …

I think the confusion here is that 'short selling' is a misnomer - it doesn't involve any merchandise at all. From the article: "In other words, 107% of all Overstock shares availa…