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The Senate is going to meet May 31st to prevent the shut down from happening. This was their most successful vote on Saturday. 57 out of 60 votes needed. http://politics.nytimes.co…

All the Democrat Senators voted in favor. Why do the Democrats want NSA bulk spying? http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/114/senate/1/194

Here's a live webcast of the senate floor. http://www.senate.gov/floor/

The Senate is holding an unusual weekend vote tomorrow to extend section 215 of the Patriot Act 2 more months. If that vote fails, NSA bulk spying on U.S. citizens is illegal on Ju…

This is all assuming that we don't have a space elevator. tldr; it costs a lot of money to launch mass into space. Sending 1 pound of water into space costs $50,000. This is more t…

For me, this was a key part of the sides: "Goal: Automated conversion of our C code to Go. Target: our C code, not all C code."

People are talking about how updating the date isn't legal unless something copyrightable has changed. I'm not a lawyer, but I've been in meetings where management decided the year…

Too bad it looks like congress dropped this amendment that passed with an overwhelming majority in a backdoor deal over the past 48 hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8703…

The question reminded me of this classic: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/05/18/ruby-on-rails-...

Bitcoin has some limitations with microfinancing. 1. Transaction times are long (6 blocks to confirm) 2. Transaction Fees of 0.0001 BTC could likely incur for transactions smaller …