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Sure, but it is still a valid 'char *' :)

I haven't touched C in years, but here's my descending "wtf" list: 1. Returns pointer to stack-allocated data, which immediately becomes invalid. Instead, it should be using some s…

The "vaccine" you refer to here is racotumomab. It's not a vaccine in the common-parlance sense ("prevents disease"), but a different immunotherapy treatment which is only approved…

Check out the cancer.gov page[1], which does a decent job of giving an overview. The drug in question, pembrolizumab, is a monoclonal antibody (you can tell because the name ends w…

Palantir.net is not the same Palantir everyone is talking about here. Palantir.net seems to be a website consultancy for drupal-based sites. Palantir.com doesn't seem to have anyth…

Submission which links to the underlying MIT News source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16401904

Maybe it is a reference to the Rick and Morty episode "Anatomy Park". http://rickandmorty.wikia.com/wiki/Anatomy_Park_(episode)

In the intro, it is stated that "literally five or less" cities do not have these monetary problems. I'm curious what those cities are, and why are they special. If the answer isn'…

I would be surprised, to be honest, if more than half the american population knew that a nuclear power plant literally cannot blow up like an atomic bomb. However, I can't find an…

Yes, yes, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best is today. Is nuclear any different? I am unaware of anything about nuclear energy that would have worked 2…

Thank you, this explanation made a lot more sense to me.

I read the wikipedia page and that "what is TRIZ" article, and I still don't understand what it is. At times, it sounds like an automated program (especially with statements like "…

This (and the other) article seems to be adamant that the study was horribly put together. Was the intent of the original study merely to determine the efficacy of screening? That …

That was a rather entertaining article, both for the story, but also for the subtext about the dangers of SIGINT-only intelligence gathering. The NSA hoovers up everything it can g…

Can you explain the part about injury recovery? Are you not allowed to take the medications because it would stress your kidney too much? (Also, do you mean NSAID drugs, or are the…

Nit: The inalienable rights of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is in the Declaration of Independence. None of those things are broadly recognized as rights in the Cons…

Seems that the requirement being due to the Widener family donation is apocryphal[0], but still an interesting idea. Also, that source suggests that there was a swimming requiremen…

I'm a little confused about the point here. Security researchers often hunt down bugs that are deemed esoteric or state-actor only. Security researchers are often the sort of peopl…