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Why stop with the executives? Why not throw the shareholders into jail --- they approve the selection of the executives and benefit from whatever malfeasance you are targeting.

I never expected to see headlines like "Authorities investigate Bayesian disaster".

None of the birds look like a pelican, whose "beak can hold more than his belly can."

You don't have anything to apologize for; you did everyone a service.

Has anyone visited these sites in the last few years? (The field trip was in 2006.) Has construction, road repairs, etc. obscured many of these? I know of a few roadway offsets in …

"...you'd want to work for..." This is a misleading framing. The private equity firm only wants to make the deal work financially and only for them. Anything else is secondary. You…

I found Malcolm Wilcock, A companion to the Iliad, and Ralph Hexter, A guide to the Odyssey, helpful when I read Homer recently.

Would you please describe your setup for coding? I'm interested in trying this out, but I need an ELI5. Thanks. PS Anybody is welcome to jump in with a description of their setup.

Phosphoric acid, hydrochloric acid, and boiling sulfuric acid: I should have paid more attention in chemistry lab. This is a neat project and answered a lot of questions.

Depends on what you learned during that "ton of experience programming." My only regret was that I had, but stupidly ignored, the MIT course notes that preceded publication of SICP…

I'm working on a code base with lots of #define. I replace them when I'm doing maintenance nearby, but you can't change them blindly: some bit of code may be inadvertently dependin…

For now this might be a project for Fields medalists, like Tao and Scholze, who have the leisure to spend 10x the time on a proof. I recently talked to a post-doc in a top-ranked m…

If you read the article carefully, you'll see clues to why this developer can make it work in spite of conventional wisdom: 1. He picks his buildings carefully. His projects are "m…

Economy was not really a consideration. The project developed two different bomb designs (plutonium and uranium) in parallel. They tried three different paths to fissile material: …

This is my candidate for the most influential master's thesis ever.

What is a better book? I don't want anyone eye-rolling when I'm LARPing.

And send their employees to penal colonies.

After all, building turbines is not exactly rocket science...

Geezer alert: forecasts look amazingly good to me. When I was a kid in the Pacific Northwest, it was routine to miss major storms until they hit land. We didn't have satellites, oc…

Read up on restarting Stinger production. Retired engineers had to pitch in to train the current generation. So I wouldn't say "totally fine".

The "facts", huh? Like other transactions with fees to a third party, the form ("seller pays") is not the same as the transfer of value. The seller knows the commission will be pai…

Anything that people will do for free is hard to make a living at; think painting and music. Game dev is close.

Different languages had different pools of readability reviewers, so the expectations varied, but readability reviews were generally constructive and helpful. I was thrilled to hav…

Long ago a coworker told me about his summer job where the computers were at another site. Twice a day a courier would take your card deck to the remote site and pick up any output…

"he's basically going to make top dollar until he's 65" ...unless he fails the flight physical.