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I agree with the difference between land-line and mobile providers. If a provider has the benefit of monopoly control of a wire into my house (or some other government-enforced mon…

Assuming that you want to allow poor people to live in an area that they couldn't otherwise afford, why are price controls used instead of directly subsidizing housing costs for th…

He would almost certainly be put in jail as soon as he stepped foot on American Soil. In most circumstances someone could make bail awaiting trial, but considering that he'd been h…

I wouldn't think those would be noticeable unless you were already closely observing the earth. I'm not a physicist, but I assume there isn't any detectable, unique signature of an…

18 years ago, and I just now realized the title was chosen because they are all DNA letters.

> You know who never goes to jail? Regulators. Nor should they unless they were colluding with him or accepting bribes. The punishment for just being bad at your job should be gett…

> design a library providing arbitrary precision "computable numbers" I believe they call those "programming languages"

Simple: Just invent a rocket that runs on nuclear waste. Then you have all the fuel you need to get the rocket there. (joking)

What I expected: if ( isEmployeeWatchingNetflixAtWorkAllDay() ) { employeeIsAboutToLeave(); }

Watch out, there's also an unwritten rule that forbids commenting on the unwritten rules. Wait... Uh Oh, now I've broken it too.

> Instead of smelling danger, the rats smell love. The story of my life.

Kurt and Jessica just had a lot of time on their hands.

- Option 1: Avoid getting into debt - Option 2: Pay your bills on time - Option 3: File Bankruptcy If you haven't taken option 1 or option 2 and you start getting court notices - t…

So about $600.99 then? What a bargain. The $449 price is cheaper than that. (Assuming you are on AT&Ts more recent plans where they charge you $25 more for having a subsidized, on-…

Can anyone in the banking industry explain why there is no security on ACH similar to how there is for credit cards? 20 years ago when I first wrote a program to generate ACH files…

TrueCrypt offers a volume-within-a-volume option. The free space of a volume normally contains random data, and the hidden volume is presumably headerless. The idea is then to put …

"full of people" being the operative phrase here. People with power tend to abuse that power. This is human nature, and this is where distrust of government comes from. People work…

Well, I thank my mother all the time for moving north several years before I was born. But I'm pretty sure the comment was referring to "Children in homes containing books display …

My cosmetologist told me I was gaining mass too. She recommended a diet though - not further research.

Assuming they are reading it from the floor of the House (or Senate), it does protect them from being prosecuted: "and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be q…

Maybe I'm not understanding your question, but adding intermediate satellites/probes wouldn't improve the speed of communications. The limiting factor is the speed of light. Adding…

I'm reminded of the book title "The difference between God and Larry Ellison". (God doesn't think he is Larry Ellison.)

Great - now we only need a 'Why To Accept Bitcoin On Your Website' article.

The British are using something the size of a phone box to explore the universe. -- Haven't they been doing that since 1963?