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It is interesting that when Facebook and Twitter are confronted over some censorship they will often talk about needing to be more transparent over and over and over and over...

It isn't just getting kicked off the platform that you should worry about. You have zero control of long term pricing. Developers sometimes even develop without doing any math on w…

The link below is on historical gas prices. Also include a link on US dollar to Euro. Depending on the state we are currently at about 2.50 and have been over 3.50. The dollar menu…

A 10% drop in currency would in your example, assuming no cost of shipping oil, US would go from 3.00 to 3.30 at 20% drop would mean 3.60 and even a US currency drop of 40% only ge…

Point taken but the oil example isn't the best example on imports as we have since about 2010 really dropped imports with Obama's "All of the above" energy strategy which included …

The US would benefit from a weaker dollar as it would protect what remains of our manufacturing base and also act as an export subsidy. Currency valuation, and in particular curren…

If you have several thousand stored procs and triggers then having to not rewrite all of that is actually likely over a million in savings.

So given 68 million USA twitter users, if this rate continues, it wouldn't take long to get half the USA switched over. I am assuming most of the new users are USA. I suspect a fai…

Obviously you don't have experience with Oracle or you would have written hundreds of thousands of dollars in license fees... /s

I suspect it is more company/occupation specific. High paying white collar workers are probably much more likely to be able to stay home. Low pay workers, likely have much less vac…

Well I am glad nobody is going to lie. /S

Until companies start to drop open office plans I hope to see articles like this fairly often.

Pictures of the actual building on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House

Are you asking if there is a phase of the disease where the body temporarily wins most of the battle but the virus continues to inhabit the host? Sort of like hiv? Maybe even a pha…

Isn't this the point of every third or forth Dilbert cartoon? This seems pretty universal. Humans are very flawed. There are those who accept that reality and those who like to bel…

If the ticket is fully refundable then it is also not a sunk cost. The land example also has potentially the same issue if the land can be sold for the purchase price. If the land …

You might have been joking but yes that type of question is being asked because a child friendly channel, if so classified, may see huge revenue cuts depending on how the regulatio…

The proposed new rules might mean an over 50% cut in revenue to a channel possibly driving the smaller players out. Very interesting side effects of regulations.

Reddit has an option to sort on controversial on a group and also on comments. I suspect the algorithm is probably looking for things with a combination of upvotes and downvotes. T…

"Companies want the flamebait...." The moderation system on reddit seems to heavily promote group think. Actually promoting controversial comments as a default would be interesting…

It reminds me of a saying about democracy which is something like "democracy is a terrible system except all other systems are worse".

There is absolutely zero ways for WhatsApp and other to comply unless there is a back door. If the Senate votes on this treaty then it has the exact effect of legislation.

I suspect Facebook has wanted an excuse to remove the end to end encryption and avoid the negative publicity at the same time. Done.

Interesting, some of use find the current generation has plenty of stories that seem dedicated to showing men as total losers and women as three million percent better. Yes it is p…

Yes college is like crack cocaine. The lives I have seen wrecked by it is amazing. Just the other day a good friend of mine was talking about getting his hundredth PHD. He was look…