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I think it's part ignorance, part exceptionalism. Backdoors sound simple, and if you're thinking about physical backdoors people are generally pretty good at protecting them. That …

For me personally the difference is that with social networking I'm reacting to something someone else posted or vice versa, which makes it organic. Being cold contacted on the oth…

One big factor is simply that a customs authority can dictate whatever process it wishes for ships who want to load/unload cargo there. It's also not just customs, there are a ton …

The one thing I miss about old docking stations is that they were basically a bunch of dumb wires. I've had to power cycle my Thunderbolt dock a couple of times because its softwar…

I've wondered if someone in Airbus is currently investigating how they would fare under similar scrutiny, but I suspect the answer is no.

Gridlock problems are particular to two party systems. A modern constitution would also include voting methods that don't result in a two party system. You could also reduce the ri…

What floors me about this article is that the data comes from phone users who have installed TruMotion based software. In other words they know their driving behavior is being acti…

The fundamental problem with incentives is that they're asymmetric in nature: The incentivee has a lot more time (and direct motivation) to come up with a way to game the incentive…

If I were writing the constitution for a representative democracy today, I think it would include mandatory sunsets for all legislation. Yes, this would lead to the legislature spe…

While originally created for a very different purpose, I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loglan and other logical languages would be a great basis for computer code.

The difference between your cake and real life programs is that business processes tend to be rife with exceptions and details — frequently exceptions that are unknown at initial d…

Yes, that's usually what enterprises end up doing for their second SAP implementation after the first one crashes and burns.

They do a serious amount of pure research. If you haven't before, it's interesting to browse https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research and see just how broad it is.

It's honestly trivial for me. I use a budgeting app (YNAB) that downloads transactions daily, and spend maybe 15 minutes a week total on it. I don't even record most transactions o…

You can see it in most search engines, and after the Ethiopian crash Kayak announced they'll add an aircraft type filter. Other flight search engines will probably follow suit.

It doesn't take a huge amount of research to learn of altenatives like uncensoreddns.org so I think it is a little lazy to just go with Cloudflare.

A missing piece of information here may be that bicycle lanes on major streets in Copenhagen are physically separated from the roadway by a curb, so the only vehicle/bicycle intera…

SciAm recently had a good article about these policies and the challenges they face: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/surrendering-to-r...

I consider that too, but that's really just because the risk is acceptable to me compared to the hassle of airports, TSA and car rental.

Cars with push buttons have ways to access ACC mode too, but they differ so you will usually need a manual to find out how.

Aurora 4X is almost literally that, but a very interesting take on the epic space 4X nonetheless.

Generally agree, but it depends a lot on the query. I find that join syntax especially is more readable in the query style.