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I'm not convinced. Is there data you can share that backs up your claims?

Thanks, I think that's a better term.

This whole situation sucks because most people are rightly outraged about police violence, but their anger is totally misdirected. These businesses had nothing to do with the death…

I agree, and I'd go a step further and say that if you destroy evidence of someone burning my city down or looting, you're an accomplice to that crime.

YouTube seems to be in this amazing degraded state for me where videos play just fine, but it isn't showing me ads.

It seems like the vast majority of employment contracts prohibit side projects like this, or at the very least, require explicit company approval. I'm interested in hearing strateg…

I think the author's main point is that Apple's process violates the principle of least privilege. Technicians shouldn't require access to the software in order to repair a hardwar…

One of the problems with Game Pass is that you can't actually watch live games. You can listen to live audio. You can watch replays of games. In fact, you can watch replays from 22…

Most of the comments in this thread are ridiculous. Just as you (hopefully) get to choose how many hours you work, your coworkers also get to choose how many hours they work. I'd a…

On /r/travel the OP said 4 km/liter

They were worried about safety, so they wanted to sleep in something more secure than a tent.

I moved out of state a couple of years ago, and when I stopped using Facebook, I realized: 1: Facebook never was a good way of keeping in touch with friends and family back home fo…

If you root your android device, you can install AppOps, which allows you to toggle the individual permissions on every application.

> in 1984 he was making in excess of $125,000 a year According to [1], that works out to ~$285,000/year in 2015 dollars. [1] http://www.davemanuel.com/inflation-calculator.php

One of the biggest problems with politics is that politicians need to raise a lot of money to get (re)elected. That money comes with strings attached, which makes it difficult for …

Interesting post! The author mentions that the first step was to "receive this input and to generate HLS output to a known folder". I have a couple questions about this step: 1: Di…

Taxation is a huge part of it. Employees don't have to pay taxes on the benefit. I think with the ACA, some small business can claim a tax credit for providing health insurance to …

Do you believe anyone can become a 10X programmer? Or do you need a certain level of talent in order for the hard work to pay off? My high school had an introductory programming cl…

This seems reasonable to me. Pretty much every academic code of conduct requires students not to publish solutions to homework problems. This doesn't prevent the use of git, just g…

3D printing will make old locks obsolete.

What should I do if I am in the United States and a police officer asks me how much money I have?

According to The Guardian[1]: In John Markoff 's 2005 book What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (even the book's title is fr…

Has anyone had success with this lately? I once posted a description of the company I work for, stating interested users should apply online. I also offered to answer any questions…

Do you think destroying technology and flipping cop cars is going to end the surveillance state? While an interesting thought experiment, it seems unlikely. If anything, it would g…