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Nahhh, it's just good business(tm). "I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further." - DV

This is _exactly_ the situation that this society came up with a new agreement to avoid. E.g. Presumption of innocence, and Habeas corpus to mention two.

They do take it seriously. It's just like the Nigerian prince scams. The insanity acts as a filter. What you get out the other side doesn't know or doesn't care that they are being…

https://permies.com/w/better-world : this covers this exact topic... in several different ways. Most of the electricity being used in the Wisconsin winter is going to be for heatin…

Due to shipping company economics the ships are in port. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-11/nothing-moving-balt... Amazon needs move product to make money. If others will not…

"The first rule of Fight Club is : You don't talk about Fight Club." -Tyler You get into the gang by sharing an existential threat to the group. Be it killing someone to get into a…

yes, but when will it stop crashing?

We can learn that doing the right thing technically is often not done in business. QNX is another great example of awesomeness squandered.

The arc of development is clear. This is only a small beginning step. Existing boats are an easy low risk low cost platform to develop on. Expect air, submersible, and larger surfa…

luckily that didn't happen with the hacker movement... oh wait.

A quick review showed a lack of : Reflections on Trusting Trust Ken Thompson ( http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html ) Any list without it, is a list without it.

Everyone dies, no one gets saved forever. Plumbers and garbage men saved more lives in the past century than doctors. (so I hear)

People just need to rewatch robocop.

I'd rather have them focus more on content and less on spelling. Especially when we are talking about the procedures for avoiding killing lots of people. Priorities are important i…

tldr; The mission is to avoid aggravating the local population any more than necessary, and they may be angry for good and valid reasons. Hurting/shooting people tends to anger peo…

Bull pucky. Have you ever been to Louisiana? http://www.businessinsider.com/most-corrupt-states-and-terri... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territo... If …

1) business-friendly == 6 newly formulated rule books writen by the corporations will allow the corporations to help themselves to state resources without much in the way to stop t…

Yet another stunning advancement in the computer sciences. I wonder how Knuth will respond to being one upped.

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin... (speaking from second hand knowledge) They don't go into much of the really interesting detail in the paper. The awe…

Bankrolled purchasers are attempting to commodity the server landscape into a platform that choke smaller companies. Something about embrace, extend and extinguish... http://en.wik…

He moved to SF in late 2011. I'm guessing he moved to or was in the cheaper hipper places, which is exactly where the crazy, homeless, drug dealers, dropouts, and trash hang out. T…

The notion of two tiered economy is overly simplified. It allows people to believe that they might be on or close to the upper side of the divide. Wealth and money (richness) distr…

So how can we get the same people motivated to work for a cure?

Durable goods, that $750k took a lifetime to build. The least you can do is see it last another lifetime to hand off to someone else. Things that will decrease your monthly out of …

My 32 Billion dollar guess is Harvard. http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list... Harvard students? Faculty? huh? Why would $32 Billion USD care about that?