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Decompile the resulting library and start refactoring and adding comments?

The article explains why. In Albanaia, where he was going, there have been issues with people pulling money out of the bank and then being robbed shortly after. Sounds like an orga…

Are there any decent plausible solutions to the problem of regulatory capture? Are there any laws restricting companies from "lobbying" regulators or engaging in quid pro quo?

I think this has more to do with how our brain processes words written in a phonetic alphabet. When reading words we are familiar with, our brain treats the word as a single symbol…

I know I have horrible auditory memory, and really good visual memory; which at first gives some credibility to learning styles being a thing. But then I read this: https://news.na…

It varies by state: http://www.vocativ.com/412398/juvenile-criminal-records-myth...

There was a study done on creepiness awhile back. Pretty interesting read: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.20...

If it worked like normal insurance, people with chronic illnesses would still go bankrupt.

Car insurance is not comparable to health insurance. It's apples to oranges. Car insurance reduces risk, by exchanging the cost of an unpredictable potentially costly event (an acc…

I think you overestimate the capabilities of a software engineer. I'm a backend developer. I can design and implement the backend of enterprise level systems (APIs, Service Bus, Sc…

Without proving them "right" by "targeting them" for psychotropic drugs (anti-psychotics)... nothing really. Unfortunately, thought disorders are pretty hard to for the patient to …

I don't know, but I remember when hating Nazi's was as American as apple pie or baseball. Call of Duty, Wolfenstein, Battlefield 1942 if I recall correctly; were all anti-Nazi and …

While what you're saying is true, I think the dunning kruger effect has an inverse bell curve based on level of confidence vs knowledge. High confidence low knowledge. Moderate con…

Best company I've been hired at did a sample project. They had the project all setup and ready to go. All I had to do was fill in some of the more complicated bits (hooking up to t…

Because removing an A makes it a completely different framework from Cocoa Framework...

While I was an admin for hackthissite.org I created some basic encryption algorithms for people to break. One person gave me a step by step guide to how he broke it. It was amazing…

The Global Assembly Cache for .NET was supposed to be a shared library storage with support for multiple versions of the same library + signed assembly/hash matching. It just never…

I have a cheap phone, and due to this I can only have like 6 apps installed at a time. I'm constantly removing Facebook/Messenger for situations like when I had to download Ticketm…

So when I pay for gigabit internet, and netflix pays their "streaming priority" charge, I get netflix content at gigabit speed. But when I pay for gigabit internet, and some random…

In priority shipping, only one side pays the fee. If the post office or UPS said "oh you want it there faster, pay X" to both sender and receiver, and both were required to pay for…

What you're referring to are known as Qualia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

Yeah I was able to beat that "Robot check" checkbox by Google using some fuzzy bezier curves and random mouse movements/scrolling to simulate a real user's behavior. Unfortunately …

Both the US and Russia are well known in interfering with foreign governments. Hell even America has their own foreign propaganda service "Voice of America" radio. Also I have no p…

Option 1: Could be Russian/Telegram propaganda. Option 2: Could be true because seriously, who trusts the FBI/NSA not to violate our privacy anymore? Really not sure what to believ…

I can assure you it is not. It's about $0.001 per solved captcha with 97% accuracy rate and refunds on failed ones, from the service provider I know of. I've even written one, it's…