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I've heard this effect put into more positive terms: If the ship is on a good course, making it hard to steer also makes it hard to sink.

Fake comment. The headline uses the word rates not beats. Not everything can be perfectly unambiguous all the time.

When is an index more useful than full text search? I derive a lot of pleasure when I can open a huge text on my laptop and instantly find exactly what I'm working for by searching…

I'm not making China out to be an omniscient bogeyman. The U.S. has used companies to gain access to secure systems in other countries. It's just a reality that ANY country can do …

Responding to your other comment: the app has access to your camera. Nothing is stopping it from using your camera, without your knowledge, and then uploading what it captures whil…

Modern apps are obfuscated and use certificate pinning to avoid network traffic introspection. It's really not simple to decompile an app into something understandable.

Yes, of course it's ok. The role of a government is to do what is in the best interest of its citizens. If there is a possible threat from a foreign adversary, the government shoul…

I think you're missing the forest for the trees. Publicly posting confidential information is definitely bad. Bringing a device that can covertly collect information for adversarie…

I was responding to the comment asking why TikTok should be banned vs. other social media.

The TikTok app may have camera access and location access. It could capture images and send them to China when it detects its on a military base without the user even knowing. It’s…

What’s more likely? A service that vacuums up every piece of data vacuuming up microphone data, or the same service intentionally excluding this one random piece of data? Every tim…

It would be ok to discuss another topic, but this particular case was using the behavior of a private British firm to somehow make the researchers look hypocritical (or having an a…

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Network infrastructure is just a microcosm of the issues facing small countries. They need protection, access to markets and resources, investment, and access to technology just to…

It's in the article: "Natural gas that is consumed on the site and would have otherwise been vented or flared under the authority of the Wyoming oil and gas conservation commission…

They have almost 0 community spread. A fact which many in the west respond to by saying that they’re faking their numbers, which completely ignores all of the counter measures they…

Why is it "very unlikely?" Does Google have a good track record of removing information voluntarily?

But someone told me insurance companies are bad and are stiffing those poor, struggling doctors and hospitals.

This only applies to non-recourse state, of which there are only 12.

I believe the average down payment on a house for first time buyers is around 5% these days (in the US): https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/how-much-is-a-down-paymen...

This totally misses the point that there is no where else you can get 20x leverage at < 3% interest. Even with modest appreciation, you're going to make a lot of money putting 5% d…

Even without FTL travel, just having constant acceleration at 1g is enough to travel the width of the galaxy in 12 years ship-time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using…

I find this situation refreshing. The banker is uniformly applying criteria for a loan. Just because you're the surgeon general doesn't mean you get special treatment.

This argument makes no sense. Medical bills are the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. Hospitals knowingly employ out-of-network doctors so they can bill patients huge sums directly.