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It depends on a lot of factors, but mostly what you take with you out of college and into the real world. Elite colleges place virtual restrictions in order to create some communit…

I hope you keep us up to date. I live in the US and I've had accounts suddenly locked out after their passwords were changed even for criticizing some Chinese issue. Several email …

The way I see it is DNA is much like a very long running program meant to run for millions to billions of years. Our current life is an instance of some code in the DNA. Due to the…

I blame it on primate science. Some scientists got some chimps, did some tests, and figured running tests and puzzles on the chimps to gauge their performance must map to humans as…

Reminds me of debian and ubuntu's requirement that apt-get is run under root. There is simple ways to get apt-get to run on non-root, but it require giving permission to non-root a…

MacArthur publicly stated dropping nuclear weapons on the northern border of the Korean peninsula to prevent the Chinese hordes from invading was necessary to secure peace in the K…

I'd put money the Japanese gov/intel just sets up a virtual TOR in their own cloud and redirect all queries to the non-authenticating whistle blower site to their own completely co…

Linus' behavior is one that is necessary in order to work with the dominant culture in OSS, particularly white males. The open forum insults to establish the pecking order, and to …

If some girl scouts' dad came to me, and told me they were selling mint chocolate chip cookies which I buy 10 packs of, but gave me butter almond instead to 'test a hypothesis'... …

That is how it works, unless there's a buffer overflow that allows installing undetected corrupted packages. One of things that is surprising about apt-get and its integrity of deb…

Welcome to the watering hole.

Atleast for some of the Samsung Phones which are becoming quickly popular for custom Android-based operating systems. Some setups with an independent USB to a baseband module can s…

The main goal would eventually be to require by law that all communications become privy to the government agencies, and outlawing any non-identifiable communications. This way the…

The article boils down to a basic fact: "The unexotic underclass are unexploitable." Despite all the dancing around this fact, it pops out in the article like a pimple on an ivy le…

In the US, dealing with Chinese who have that 'Houkou' system can also be very difficult, as they've established significant connections with the local native population. The only …

This phone is preferable over any of Apple's lock-in, overtly proprietary devices. It's a shame there's not any good app markets for the US. Apple and Google are populous, but the …

'bad HTML' could easily have just been an ego clash and pissing contest between developers of competing browsers. It was arguably more difficult to implement than just well-structu…

Ironically, by getting used to dole out work to others (subordinates) by paying them and expecting success is their basic managerial ethos, and one that even predominates modern We…

My personal experience with paid fully online course was for a 1 year program in micro systems development/design. It was pretty steep at the time, several thousand, but the benefi…

Yes, I've been through Seattle quite a few times. There are very distinct modes of separation that are very noticeable, where the barriers are not obvious. No visible walls separat…

Yes, but 5 years behind the curve? I think not.

Quote again from the article, did you read it? > What no one here knew that day, May 30, 2013, was that the investment company, DC Energy, was reaping rewards from the swelter Pric…

Then you should read your own comments and cringe as well as it adds nothing, nor explains your subjective reaction.

> Consumers were victims of power companies that ignored market signals, not a crafty scheme to leverage them out of their money. DC Energy didn't exactly go to the power companies…