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Sounds like the plot of a Futurama episode...

Sure and while we’re at it, let’s not treat aids patients because they engaged in high risk activity and not treat heart attacks of the overweight either.

I’ve never had a job require me to prove those vaccines to come in.

Does this apply to the flu, varicella, meningitis, etc as well?

C# itself isn't hard, but the ecosystem is. I have been writing code for years and wanted to take a look at dotnet not that long ago. There are no tutorials on how to make somethin…

I recently tried to take a look at dotnet core since I heard it can compile and run on linux. Every tutorial I looked at for building a webapp started with "download visual studio …

Well it’s a fork of cmucl. Carnegie Mellon university Common Lisp. So they couldn’t have named it the same as the thing it was derived from.

Why would you have bothered encrypting the laptop if everything is in the cloud/elsewhere anyway?

This is governance issue. Build all your software into packages appropriate for the OS you use and then put them in a company repo. Install from there. If you're just dumping whate…

So, apple should add an sd card slot?

Lets drop things down and say there is only ~500* deaths due to accidental drowning per year in the US. That seems reason enough to discourage pool ownership. *= http://www.cdc.gov…

sounds familiar http://www.theonion.com/article/parents-dedicate-new-college...

"HEY HERE ARE SOME NON-PARTISAN REASONS TO NOT LIKE CONDI: partisan reason number 1 partisan reason number 2 reason 3 is valid partisan reason number 4"

There is of course the equivalent in erlang http://learnyousomeerlang.com/

There are delays trading between dollars and bitcoins so as the different exchanges vary, people can't easily arbitrage it and close the gap.

I don't understand... how is that a knock on fabric? I have software built into packages and then config templates and some key/value stuff to substitute in. My fabric scripts log …

It isn't just engineers... Everyone does this. It's just a habit that people have like pen clicking or nail biting.

He didn't talk about the last level for some reason.

They seem to miss the point that they shouldn't be tracking people "the old fashioned way" without a warrant either. You track people because you think they are guilty of a crime a…

Is personalized data like browsing habits or GPS info or anything else they collect market on and sell considered intellectual property? If so why can these companies sell it witho…

Oracle really doesn't understand FOSS in general or NoSQL in particular. One of their points is that NoSQL databases don't have all of the advanced features of Oracle database comp…

Here's some advice: If you are an American citizen, file your tax return. Easy as that.