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What about questioning the purpose of the taxes you pay?

100%. The given situation is solvable only by the humans involved. They want different things. Either one of them has authority over the other, or they talk it over.

The obvious answer is a relational structure. In the given example, host, status, path and target should be separate relations. They'll all be tiny ones, a few rows each. Of course…

Media people obviously thought that kill switch meant something that can kill the driver and rushed to reassure the public that no that was not the case. They're good people at hea…

It's not as if they don't know that this is a false comparison, specially because generations of Intel CPUs used in Macs also did frequency throttling. "Unlike traditional Intel CP…

The slowness would be inevitable because the architecture combines the weak point of Redis (network stack) with the weak point of sqlite (disk access). It abandons Redis' in-memory…

Early in this article, there's this sentence: Google’s results are really good. Reminds me of the comedian who, when asked, "How's your wife," would say, "Compared to what?"

Even without writing code, on personal projects it's worth it for the three things I'm always lazy about: 1. Good, detailed commits 2. Tests 3. Docstrings

100%. The HN crowd has come a long way from practically hero-worshipping Snowden to automatically assuming that 'state actor' must mean the countries marked evil by the US.

My Yahoo mail account was created as a Rocketmail account, likely in 1996 or 97, when Rocketmail launched and became the biggest Hotmail rival. Yahoo acquired it and it became Yaho…

"will continue" can't really be said about anything Google with any degree of confidence.

It's amusing that NYT spends so much verbiage in the complaint speaking so highly of itself as doing some great service to humanity and then stating a legal argument that is equall…

So this is not about railway trains?

Also, there's that other country, which cannot be named, which can do this rocket shit reasonably well.

"Mission control on Earth receives that data in binary code, or a series of ones and zeroes." That's a relief.

Launching a small company is an even bigger nightmare, and that's actually the bigger problem. The legal cost of dealing with a few _mistaken_ (or fake) GDPR complaints can wipe yo…

Well, apart from the fact that the Iran-Iraq war had been on right there for eight years, there's all this on the referred Wikipedia page, including the fact that the Vincennes was…

It's like showing up at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and, "You mean this thing can't even fly me to New York? Useless!'

It's completely legal under the law called 'might is right'. Forget about exchanges. If a random business anywhere in the world buys a product from a factory in a neighbouring coun…

I don't care about Binance or CZ or even crypto but it was worthwhile wading through the article just to learn this: "The U.S.’s point of view on the matter, elucidated at length i…

That's what a board of a for-profit company which has a fiduciary duty towards shareholders should do. However, the OpenAI board has no such obligation. Their duty is to ensure tha…

Did you read my comment? I'm saying that the Americans want colonoscopies to remain unchallenged because they make money out of it. This has little (or nothing) to do with the cost…

The sad thing about the article is that skirts around mentioning the possibility that the American disease industry hates this trial because it will reduce their income. The good t…

At least till XP, and maybe 7 too, you had progman.exe and fileman.exe in the Win folder. All you had to was set shell=progman.exe in (I think) win.ini. Or maybe in the other .ini …

You could switch the theme (at least in SP2) to look basically like 2000, which is what I always did. You could actually do that in 7 too.