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Can't wait to see how http://n-gate.com summarizes this one.

Some would call political activism on your employer's dime theft. Unless it's part of your job description. But no one likes to face what it means to sell their time to another per…

As a US person myself, I don't really take issue with stopping extraditions because it would probably be a lot cheaper just to execute enemies abroad. Think how much money Putin ha…

If it really was a totally foreign concept to native Americans, who did the European invaders steal the land from?

The bans will expand to the rest of the world soon enough. There is no way to satisfy this beast and no border that will contain it. After Biden wins, I'd guess we'll have a couple…

I think you're right and we should just use a different word instead of fighting against the plain meaning. It shouldn't come as a surprise that when it takes 4 paragraphs to expla…

It's just panhandling if you ask for a tip before you've done any service. And it's offensive to get panhandled by a commercial enterprise.

I don't think anyone would argue with the value side of the question. The tricky part is calculating the cost side. (The cost of not deleting old messages.) Surely we can agree tha…

And loading apps outside the Play store on Android.

Lighting a fire is a crime. (When it's arson.) Painting a wall is a crime. (When it's vandalism.) Jumping a fence is a crime. (When it's trespassing.) Not going to be much left to …

I was 100% with you until > Please stop buying these raspberry pi kit things unless you have one of the specific use cases (a small desktop computer) in mind. They seem like so muc…

Maybe that's how life on earth began and we would just be continuing the process.

Could fungi be used as shielding?

The real problem with talking about slippery slopes in tech is that we're already on an unrecoverable slide into the unknown. So the question is just "does this new thing make the …

Fuel in the US is subsidized? I thought it was heavily taxed (not compared to European countries but compared to other consumer goods).

Yes, the entire flight control system could just be an Electron app running open source javascript. Or typescript if you're a (type) safety nut. # npm install boeing-aileron boeing…

The desperate clinging to a numeric system oriented to the binary internals of a computer in the human interface to those internals is insane. Choosing base 2 numeric systems as th…

Here's a satirical summary of the agenda: http://n-gate.com/fosdem/2018/01/28/0/

I'm not sure which is worse: unaccountable Big Tech or Big Tech 100% accountable to governments. I'd be more sympathetic if it seemed he wanted Big Tech less powerful, instead of s…

It's a very short article, here are the salient bits: === A massive data breach at Yahoo in 2013 was far more extensive than previously disclosed, affecting all of its 3 billion us…

Yes and that's what's so depressing about it. As engineers, wouldn't it be cool if the most valuable thing we could do was building tools that are inherently valuable instead of va…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_cases_make_bad_law The situation sucks and you can't help but feel terrible for her, but please let's not change the law based on this. And if we…

Criminal justice attempts to align punishments with the public's sense of fairness, not the other way around. When people regularly feel compelled to mete out vigilante justice, it…

Can't believe we're to the point of debating whether a private educational institution can base an admissions decision, in part, on a past murder conviction. This isn't about redem…