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FYI, tungsten carbide (tungsten + carbon) is a different substance from the pure metal tungsten... They have very different physical properties. But I do appreciate your story abou…

"For street cleaning, he first reached out to Teddy Roosevelt, who basically said, ‘What, are you nuts? Nobody should do that. That’s an impossible job. I’m not going to do that.’ …

The salt is different for EVERY secret. When you hash/store a new password, you randomly generate a salt for THAT password, and you store each salt & password together. Because eac…

I believe it should be noted that federal law requires an FFL for anybody engaged in a "primary business" of selling guns. There's no bright line, here. People who regularly sell g…

I'm not so sure that most US firearm purchases are recorded. In many US states, direct private gun sales are perfectly legal. For instance, a Pennsylvania resident can directly sel…

Philosophically, I believe you're correct. But in practice, it's all too easy for a government official to harass political opponents for partisan ends, while steadfastly claiming …

You appear to be missing the exact point, here. In a free society, it's specifically NOT reasonable for government to investigate anybody based solely on their political advocacy. …

Your point seems reasonable & logical. But in my experience, it's also incorrect: Plenty of gun collecting is predominantly around modern, mass-produced, non-scarce guns. I believe…

These benchmarks DO represent meaningful results. Some benchmarks are designed to measure absolute performance, in order to answer questions like "How many servers should we buy, i…

Um... What about Australia? Canada? Barbados? At least a dozen former British colonies established their independence gradually and peacefully, with the willing cooperation of the …

Depends on what you mean by realtime. In most cases (stats-wise, anyway) analyzing a non-stored infinite-length data stream is a very different challenge from analyzing a stored, f…