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Sure, but just because its law doesnt mean its just. If you are just talking about "the law" you are talking about something very different than everyone else. Even if its the law,…

Incredible how short peoples' memories are. "The American security aparatus says its dangerous" has historically been a very poor indicator of a threat to the American people, and …

Do any engineers actually like DD? Execs/managers seem to love DD and get upsold all the time on it and ask engineers to implement some of their half-baked features. It seems like …

What is a well designed system, especially in nature? What values does nature maximize for? Nature is just a bunch of distributed systems that have chaotically learned to work "tog…

Its sort of a given to learned people that regulations are good. The fact you don't live in a factory town bartering cigarettes for Amazon Coin you use to buy your meals with is a …

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If you've ever worked in the United States in virtually any field, you've undoubtedly heard workers or managers use the phrase "good enough for government work" accompanied by a sh…

Could you cite the portion of the Communist Manifesto this reminds you of? I thought this was a well written comment until you used a political boogeyman to attempt to lend credenc…

"While we see the US as an ally here - we haven't traditionally been at war with Arab countries" Literally since the founding of the state of Israel the country has been at war wit…

For the vast majority of robotics and controls traditional methods often have the best (implementation + research)/time value. Using any kind of machine learning usually means a lo…

That's a nice straw man you got there. Be a shame if someone set it ablaze... Pre 2015 people were worried about the government actively monitoring and controlling what could be sa…

The statement is pretty clearly saying it does NOT tell the US to stop using coal. The poor phrasing confused you.

When they acted as a pass through for leaks and supported govt.transparency. Now its pretty clearly a partisan attack on dems with the min focus of profiting and keeping wikileaks …

I am thinking the same thing right now... maybe people will eventually get tired of the privacy invasions and start running an OS that doesn't spy on you

Just my opinion, but shouldn't an analytical company provide actual formal data. While using the data given you could approximate their st dev etc, it seems weird they would not do…

Why would you not be using Gmail at this point?