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I guarantee you that most of those actually affected by suicide care far more about the passivization of their loved one's final act than a tortured etymological concern.

committed suicide -> died by suicide: even in death we are removing their agency.

Seriously, if a company wants me to spend more than an hour of my time on something for them, they better be including a check as well.

That's ~900 Gal/Day which sounds pretty high for 1 or 2 households but I suppose if they are large and have large lawns or something it could be reasonable. I would naively think i…

Yes, the former. For instance, the Expanded Child Tax Credit, is extended for 1 year at a estimated cost of $190M if this were expanded to the 10 years the bill is supposed to be p…

The programs for spending the money are slated to last as little as a single year, while the taxes to balance the spending are expected to do so over 10 years. It absolutely is inf…

The SCU biology class is going to go to Monterey, the SJSU is going to go nowhere. SCU doesn't have the latest equipment in its labs, but it does have decent labs, SJSU is probably…

Yes, but mostly because it informs the people you meet, and those are what end up really mattering.

No you misread my refutation, I make no claims of the errorness or exceptionness of dividing by 0, merely that your proposed example doesn't support your claim that it depends on t…

I disagree with your case, this is clearly an error because it should never get to dividing by 0. You MUST validate user input and user input validation failures are a class of err…

aka Crime (for the most part)

This feels like slide ware to me, and I know Tesla has achieved its goals in the past, but color me at least a little skeptical.

As far as I can tell this is mostly the EFF being sore losers over the DRM issue. They only joined W3C so they could oppose it, now they are leaving since they failed. While I'm ne…

The only issue with that is there are a few groups that have consistently beat the market over time, so perhaps its more pseudorandom than we think. One example might be the Renais…

The bar in civil cases is preponderance of the evidence, of which Google has plenty and Uber / Levandowski have shown very little. It seems beyond sufficient at this point anyway.

Not nearly so much as customer happiness does.