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> If your application also runs NFKC normalization (which it should — ENS, GitHub, and Unicode IDNA all require it) That's not right. Most of the web requires NFC normalization, no…

Is the goal to make good ORM queries easier or to prevent bad queries? It's not clear there's really a compiler solution to the latter. If you're inside a loop in which a database …

Without commenting on the merits of that idea, I'll just say that I do not want to be the one who has to moderate user generated content.

That's not really the right picture. Congress.gov, originally THOMAS.gov, was a product of the Republican Contract with America take-over of Congress in the mid 1990s. Republicans …

I did much of that so I appreciate you saying that the documentation is excellent. :)

Hi. I run GovTrack. OP may have been unlucky on the timing. The site isn't usually down. Here's the link to the text of H.R. 1 on GovTrack: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/1…

Totally agree with you that pride is important, but there's definitely more. Being a good engineer is frequently a problem of design --- whether it's user experience or code abstra…

Hi. Author of that article here, and I worked with the DC Council to get the initial prototype going, if anyone has any questions. What's important in the story is that the law wen…

Millions of Americans already use GovTrack.us to track legislation in the U.S. Congress and how their representatives and senators vote. I created GovTrack twenty years ago with th…

I agree that ethnic Jews with Christian religious beliefs is a legitimate concept. But I would rather call them Messianic Jews (or just Christian Jews) rather than adherents of "Me…

Yes and that was what I was saying (sorry it wasn't clear). What it means to be a Jew is complicated. Jews form an ethnicity of interconnected people with a range of beliefs and pr…

The unfortunate part is where Christians try to pass themselves off as Jews by adding "Jewish" to the name of their denomination. I wish my great aunts and uncles could have added …

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> Agencies will just need to work with Congress to help them write laws This is already exactly how it works. One reason why legislating takes so long is because there is an enormo…

Yeah, I don't want to be responsible for user-generated content, and I don't want to collect data on users.

I am pretty sure it's the simulation.

Author here. Glad to see this making the rounds again after a few years. Go science! Support your local climate scientist!

U.S. law requires that agencies perform this public disclosure of their analysis so that interested parties in the general public have an opportunity to meaningfully weigh in befor…

Just to clarify the headline, it's Congress and President Biden who are requiring critical infrastructure to report ransom and other cyber incidents, per a law enacted inside must-…

Self-replying... I found the comments really helpful so I wrote up some thoughts on different approaches to tackling projects. Hope this might be helpful to others. https://joshuat…

I think the idea is that for a slice of an elephant to be "elephant shaped," it has a bit of all of the key parts of an elephant - a bit of the trunk, a bit of a heart, stubs for f…

This is a similar idea to how I understand the Elephant Carpaccio exercise by Henrik Kniberg & Alistair Cockburn (2013), from what I've been able to Google. The key idea is that wo…

We don't ask for dollars back. The government asks for a loan that pays interest and lots of people gladly want to make that loan - like probably your retirement investments. This …