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It doesn't provide 100% privacy from everyone, but it does provide privacy from the web service: A worker at a physical store checks your ID, and if it says you are 18, they hand y…

The problem with insider trading in prediction markets isn't the "prediction" part, it's the "markets" part. Once there is real money changing hands, then the purpose of the predic…

If 20 people take advantage of your buffer, then you are delayed by a distance of 20 vehicle-lengths + 20 follow-distances. This is about 1000 meters, a distance which you can trav…

My reading is that this was included in point #7, i.e. access to the customer service is conditional on identity verification.

On the contrary, sticking strictly to the lane markers when everyone else is blindly straddling lanes seems the worst of all worlds.

If you want to talk about bad faith arguments, calling the AI a "hellsystem" is showing your bias just a bit.

Hackers deliberately create strange circumstances, it's the primary way to find exploits. Any code that relies on a lack of strange circumstances is a time-bomb.

0.1-1% hire rate based on applicants, or based on candidates interviewed? 0.1% hire rate of candidates interviewed doesn't seem compatible with your described growth rate, even if …

Most people don't start shopping at grey/black markets in order to avoid paying sales tax. Most people don't pay their employees under the table to avoid paying income tax. Most pe…

Not OP, but a fan of Warp. > I - and I get the impression that's true for many developers - learned early to minimize the custom config. I get the exact opposite impression. My und…

Yes. Mozilla is a non-profit, pretty much everything they do is out of charity.

It's also entirely plausible that every apartment DOES have high VOC levels, but she is the only one reacting to them. Or that other people are also reacting to them and haven't fi…

The map also explicitly lists "number of homes that would be illegal", presumably for that reason. If you make it illegal to build anything smaller than a duplex, on a lot that cur…

We have a give and take, it's called a "protected class". It lists reasons you can't fire people and includes reasons like being black or being a woman. We can update the laws to p…

No, it's actually undecidable. C++ templated have been determined to be turing complete, which means that template instantiations can encode the halting problem. Determining whethe…

Calling race conditions the "most common" vulnerability seems like some pretty extreme hyperbole. What about SQL injection or XSS?

People continue to influence their children long after they stop reproducing. Genes that help you children have more children are selected for, so something like a gene that keeps …

What he means is that the deduction has been "priced in" to the price of homes/mortgages. In a similar story, a company I used to work for once offered employees a $x incentive to …

To most people, there is no difference between "your chances to to carry or possibly have or develop health issues" and a diagnosis. Sure, I suppose I can see some small technicali…

The difference is the JS has late binding. myObj.myMethod(); Has different semantics than var x = myObj.myMethod; x(); Which causes code like: myList.map(myObj.myMethod); to behave…

> I'm not counting dependencies... and some of those dependencies are really heavy, made worse because they load incompatible versions of things (e.g. Fbjs 0.13 vs fbjs 0.15). I th…

Because it blocks anything else from happening. If on a server, it will prevent that process from handling any requests until the file has been read, and in a browser-like environm…

No they are not. They are demanding money, but they don't care if you inherited it, worked for it, found it, etc.

If I tell you not to enter my house, and take no further steps to prevent you from entering my house, such as closing the door, it's still illegal for you to enter my house. If I t…

You can have weakly/dynamically typed functional languages (most lisps for example) just like you can have strongly/statically typed procedural or OO languages, like Fortran or C++…