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And most patent trolls are just a few jackass lawyers, not large established companies like Nokia.

I see jokes here often enough, but they have to be tasteful, original and clever. What doesn't fly here is the lazy reddit style of joking where you just quote some lame meme or mo…

Are you alluding to some particular hypocrisy in my comment history, or do you consider me a hypocritical merely because I have nuanced opinions on leadership that depend on the st…

In small groups where decisions must be made in a timely and decisive manner, a mediocre leader is often better than the best democratic committee. Even in programming teams, someb…

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Snowden's only value to the US is satisfying the grudge the government has against him. There's no practical value to everyday Americans in getting Snowden back now, whatever beans…

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> 13% risk is a number controlling out other factors So is the other figure, so the comparison is valid. Maybe wood dust is more dangerous that you assume? BTW, the asbestos in bab…

Secret courts aren't an accident. "Whoops my hand slipped and I accidentally drafted thousands of pages of legislation!" No, secret courts are deliberate and malicious. Hanlon's ra…

As somebody who sometimes puts slept laptops into bags, No! A laptop ever waking itself from sleep is an abomination.

It's a product of sports-teams consumerism. People make affiliation with a sports team or corporate brand into part of their identity. When they fall out with one brand they feel c…

Those people also forget or deliberately ignore the existence if MacOS, and generally exaggerate the state of Android. MacOS isn't locked down like iOS yet normal laypeople can use…

Self aggrandizing comparison, whole article is a humblebrag about how powerful the author is. You're an insignificant spec compared to the old grand lizard. In your most destructiv…

And this kind of thing, trouble with a boss/landlord/etc, is a lot more likely to personally impact the average person than any sort of PV-related scenario. Single party consent is…

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> I asked them if they are a helicopter or plane pilot, and they replied simply: "A very good customer."

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Two is better than one. If Dragon were grounded for some reason, an operational Starliner would give NASA a lot more flexibility.

Mozilla management are malicious snakes. This isn't the first time they've tried something like this and it won't be the last. Each time they issue noncommittally apologies, if you…

Crazy it's taken them this long and they're still having problems. If it weren't for SpaceX, the whole western world would be out of manned spaceflight right now. The Russians and …