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There are several of different options. The most obvious is an independent line of authority delegated from the state's legislature or governor. This is where the police get THEIR …

Certainly, there's a libertarian argument made against requiring seat belt use, including mathematical economics models that can prove it... provided a few unstated assumptions are…

Reinforcement learning gets ignored again... :/

Likely because bots and troll farms are totally out of control, and they don't have a more accurate way of fighting it. IMHO, this is also the reason behind some of the heavy-hande…

If this is intended to make a §230 argument, consider that its reason d'etre is based on the complete impracticality of pre-clearing user generated content. The practical considera…

Tunnel vision is a thing. Taking some time to zoom out is often incredibly useful. Also, the philosophy and sociology of science are a VERY different thing from "the humanities".

> not yet liquid stock that they would like to sell me That's... isn't that impossible by definition?

Diversity e.g., in higher education admissions isn't just about what's fair for the students, it's also about what's best for the university and the students. Universities are natu…

Variables go "out of scope" (in at least one sense) at last use, but are not `Drop`-ed (de-allocated, etc...) until the end of the function. The difference is important because of …

According to whom? The propagandists of their political adversaries, I'd wager.

"We apologize for the fault in the subtitles^Hjavascript. Those responsible have been sacked." "Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked"…

The problem with this is that consumer Internet access is priced based on the assumption that it will be "bursty". Heavy users are subsidized by light users, both on a moment-to-mo…

That's true in general now. Particularly in industries with high capital intensity, network effects, and/or monotonically increasing returns to scale. But that's a LOT of modern in…

The purpose of (most) speech is to create action. If the phrase "I'm going to kill you" is intended to alter someone's behavior. If property is involved, whether it's through force…

That only works if you're actually going to act on the intelligence gathered from having the discussion centralized. That's something the U.S. is clearly willing to do with, e.g., …

The price of Amazon stock is ultimately supported by expectations of future dividends. The same is true for other stocks too, of course. Whether or not the company has paid out div…

Speaking for myself... The most obvious example was my response to emotional situations in fiction. Going from only being able to empathize with characters only on an intellectual …

While anecdotes aren't evidence themselves, they're extremely useful (1) when there aren't scientific studies available and (2) for generating theories that can later be tested. Wh…

There's more to "capital" than a physical machine. Compare the cost of creating software (often many millions) to the per unit cost of copies of that software (zero). Compare the c…

> Is it really high capital intensive? I make websites and i m not rich. If you work in the industry and aren't familiar with concept yet, it's something that you would greatly ben…

> unless google+apple conspire to regulate the market to prevent others from entering Not to pick on you specifically, but this view is way too wrong to be so common. The informati…

One theory that seems plausible to me is that there's deliberate confusion and misinformation created to combat or discredit leaks. Imagine that there's an adversary who has access…

Yup, thanks. Will be more careful with that distinction in the future. =)

No, but Rust provides this memory safety without GC, which is AFAIK, unique in a mainstream language. The type system knowing about ownership and borrowing also allows the eliminat…