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Decisio Health | Senior Engineer | Houston, Texas | Full-time | On site | https://www.decisiohealth.com/ Decisio is hiring a senior engineer to join the team responsible for buildi…

If you want to ensure that your new hire will stay with the company for four years, you put that in the contract. You then negotiate a compensation package that factors in the oppo…

"Fair" enough.

There are two places where one might take a position: "are the laws being fairly applied in this case?" and "are the laws themselves fair?". Clearly it would be unfair to treat Arr…

The State has the right to determine what is legal; I reserve for myself the right to determine what is fair. I encourage you to do the same.

I'm not taking a position on Arrington. I just object to the idea that legality implies fairness, by definition.

You seem to be confusing what is "fair" with what is "legal."

What you're describing reminds me of the Mathic system in Neal Stephenson's book Anathem . The characters are sequestered in groups defined by the interval at which they interact w…

Regarding your point #3: how would "scrub" work with interconnected user data? Comment threads like this one are a good example; my comment is dependent on yours for context. Shoul…

That's most definitely incorrect. And it's not just a technicality; copyright law is the legal foundation of free/open source software.

They claim to be generating the revenue, only to have it stolen by Google and others. If this was the case, /robots.txt could go a long way towards preventing billions of dollars f…

Lies, damned lies, and statistics. That 97% only indicates that most people don't change the defaults; it says nothing about what Twitter users want. In this case it's particularly…