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How do you covertly take notes in a restaurant... on your phone?

My father believed that truly great restaurants don't do this, because they KNOW their food is perfect. Practically speaking, though, dpeck is right... shortly after the food is dr…

It's the internet... we're all unknown to each other, and many modern web apps are running a huge stack of unvetted code. Honestly, a problem like this is overdue, especially for t…

Touche. Perhaps the rhetoric of free-market-can-solve-everything Libertarians, the get-the-government-out-of-my-health-care Republicans, and the healthcare-is-a-human-right Democra…

Perhaps their true market will be for industrial IOT devices that need to connect from all over the world. If I'm selling large HVAC units with cloud monitoring functionality, it'd…

> I can't afford to do another sleep study (American Healthcare rocks!). That's the invisible hand of the free market taking care of you!

The paper is arguing FOR self-incrimination, not against it.

Right. Everybody's pointing out the race-to-the-bottom for cities, but another bad side effect is that it's unfair to competitors (particularly small and medium businesses that don…

I feel many fluent API's are guilty of something similar. You gain terse, one-line magic statements that accomplish a lot; you lose discoverability and meaningful object-oriented c…

> I sat with a whole table of them and watched them fall for a simple social engineering attack one minute after being told they were going to fall for the attack. Story time?

> Emacs/mutt/libreoffice/python/kodi have not been adversarily tuned to fire off the reward centers of our brains Indeed, some of those could desperately use a little polish to sto…

That falls under a number of strategies for Solar Radiation Management [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_radiation_management ], which, as you say, doesn't address the core CO2…

OP (Mengkudulangsat ) expressed problems with sharia finance in terms of investing fundamentals (risk, complexity, etc.). stealthcat objected to OP raising these points and appeale…