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the ICO is toothless by design

They did so because politicians told them to, with the threat of withholding funding, due to lobbying by Boeing. Boeing management is the root cause.

in addition there are several mods that increase the depth of the production tree and materials used

At the other side of the fence we have JS/TS experts writing inscrutable one-liners by chaining 15 lodash commands. Having tried both SQL and the approach of using a programming la…

I've also been looking for that. In an ideal world there would be a small, fast, standalone cli tool that can convert csv to parquet. There is a (sadly, unfinished) parquet writer …

bloodthinners to prevent clots.

It's likely that rituals were they way they structured complex activities. Put the food beneath the snow and sing a song, using prescribed steps, so the gods will preserve it. Band…

Here are some considerations why: https://danluu.com/file-consistency/

a fun way to learn the basics, is to start playing at screeps.com. It's not applicable to web design though.

they share with GSK even if you opted out, because GSK is part owner.

Yes, a grey zone exists. That's not a reason for inaction in other cases. Where to draw the line between murder, manslaughter and unfortunate accident ? Where to draw the line betw…

the UK one has no teeth.

any advice on how to invest in ETFs while in Europe ? Vanguard is not available and local banks charge high management fees.

Or it was started to improve their bargaining position against ISPs, and was dropped in return for additional concessions.

One of the predictions was that we'd get stronger heat waves in West Europe. We broke several old records this year. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49100271

"These sales were not made pursuant to a Rule 10b5–1 trading plan" They didn't report in advance.

If (nearly) every implementation of a good idea turns out badly, is it still a good idea ? It smells like the No True Scotsman fallacy.

the legal mechanism does exist, it's called Jury Nullification

Even better would be the amount of seconds each person is surveilled during their time in public space. Summed as an absolute number, and as a ratio of the total time they spend in…

They came back fast by bribing OEMs to only sell Intel and were fined for it by the EU because it was an antitrust violation. It's unlikely they can repeat that.

To even it out across space already exists. Temperature differences generate a force that vastly outnumbers our own energy production capabilities (including nukes). It's called wi…

applying price differentiation on a product that you already sold to double dip is pretty scummy

local admin on windows is similar to having sudo rights on linux. It can be used to access personal files and running sessions of other users on the same machine, to install malwar…

flying requires an order of magnitude more energy compared to driving. It won't be be a feasible method of mass transportation anytime soon.

slack in 2015: "We have no indication that the hackers were able to decrypt stored passwords, as Slack uses a one-way encryption technique called hashing." slack in 2019: "In 2015,…