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So that's 74,000 assaults against a population of 1,328,000[1]. So about 5.57% of the armed forces were assaulted sexually in one year. But the United States as a whole had a repor…

The 10 foot ceilings are too low for the modern renter's sensibilities, apparently.

The picture painted was accurate and relevant > Self-described ‘news’ accounts rapidly spread falsehoods around the perpetrator. One viral narrative falsely named him as “Ali al-Sh…

Yep, I didn't add enough newlines. Fixed

As mentioned, the SMTP protocol only allows for 1000 bytes of data per line. The author also mentions that they are sending html emails, which ignore line breaks. So a message inte…

I consider myself technically inclined, yet up until today I didn't realize numbers COULD be spoofed One day a few months ago I woke up to a missed call from a verified number. I h…

Some people lack an ear for accents, especially if they're subtle. Personally, my ear is so bad that I get Brazilian accents mixed with Eastern European accents; and west African a…

I stopped reading when he criticized Google's "Don't be evil" motto as a corporate say-nothing. Yes it's a truism, but I'd argue that it was chosen because software engineers value…

Hold on, I've heard of the replication crisis - though I don't know the scale - but are you saying that over 50% of "hard science" is bunk? I find that hard to swallow.

The paper was very careful to describe the mass increase of Cuban immigrants as "immigration shock", not just immigration. I don't think the conclusions of this paper can say any o…

There's still no way for TikTok, or any app, to determine your password hash, so even if they test for validity (by conforming to OS pin restrictions), how would they test for vera…

I wish the article put more emphasis onto the facg that TikTok was requesting the password through a system prompt. They don't have anyone's passwords, just a conformation from the…

I'd love to read the writeup if you find it. You might be thinking of Microsoft's Raymond Chen? I'd be surprised if he's written about the web in depth

How you could have enough control over the machine to reroute the error log to (what I assume was) a Pastebin api, while also lacking access to any of the files on the machine? In …

It sounds like the issue is that these service providers are obeying Google's aliasing rules, but also ignoring the fact that you shouldn't be using email as a primary identifier […

Really, this sounds believable. How often does the average programmer use anything beyond arithmetic? I'm only a few years out of school, but I'm re-learning calculus since I haven…

Thank for for linking. This confirms that yes... The OECD said the decline was not inevitable, pointing to Singapore, where students scored the highest in maths, reading and scienc…

Title editorialized ever so slightly for clarity. For those wondering how applications detected screenshots in the past. Previously, apps were able to detect when a screenshot had …

To find the two’s complement of 5, we invert all the bits (changing 0s to 1s and 1s to 0s) and then add one to the result. I am embarrassed by the fact that I wasn't aware of this.…

But the evidence was there. Personal attacks against Nick Bostrum, Robin Hanson, among other leadings figures, not for their positions on the most important issues, or even for bei…

The author suggests making cultural changes that will discourage the suppression of socially unacceptable topics, and seemingly believes that the suppression of rational discourse …

God, they're complaining about newposters all the way back in 2007. Is the problem really Eternal September or is it just "kids these days"? Also Leif K-Brooks is a thoughtful pers…