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The problem is that small businesses are salmon.

And no one deserves customers. What silicon valley is doing is destroying the consumers that would be buying its products. The guy doesn't work at Tesla, but if the average employe…

To pay for things when your bank is an idiot which won't let you spend over your limit, but will let you withdraw as much as you want in person. I paid for my first car in cash bec…

This isn't unique to Russia. Anyone who was in the US around 2003 will know how warped people there were when the war in Iraq was starting: https://youtu.be/DJ3RrqBqk14?t=3m34s The…

>But we also have to acknowledge that we as a profession are not able to write secure code in C/C++. You can't write safe code in any Turing complete language. That's the whole poi…

I quite like sagetex: http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/tutorial/sagetex.html A python like mathematica clone.

You don't need capital if you're not expanding. Running costs include the wages for those working there. I think $150,000 or so per employee is more than enough + volunteers. Of co…

Again, I'm not seeing why it was 33kHz exactly. It sounds like OP just used the wrong prefix.

And who exactly makes the observations? Is a cat good enough? A chimp? If we get someone really smart to look at an electron can we collapse it better? The brain centered quantum m…

http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Basic_Part_De... The above looks pretty 3d to me.

Computerworld faces endangered species status, tries to regain lost ground with click bait articles. So let's actually read the article: >the iconic browser dropped another three-t…

The first 5 year plan was the most successful piece of industrial policy by any country in the world until the Chinese opening of their market. What's even more impressive is that …

I got married yesterday. If the trend continues tomorrow I will be doubling the number of wives I have every day. I expect to be married to the whole human race by the end of the m…

Yeah, no: http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/articles/2000/02/the_...

This is the typical great man myth that gets promulgated by their publicists to make them seem more than human. As a rule they are either out right lies or greatly exaggerated, oth…

If we diverted billions of dollars to doctors or cooks we would gain the benefit of increased, more healthy lifespans. If we did the same for bankers we would get, well what we got…

"I honestly don't think it's simple. How can I possibly use GPL code to reduce anyone's freedom? By creating some derivative work? By doing so, I have not diminished your access to…

In that case you can't possibly read any code whatsoever. Yet again the GPL does not restrict your freedoms. It just adds to them if you're in the pro-user freedom camp of software…

I have a new law based on Betteridge's law of headlines: Any scientist who claims to have produced a paradigm shift hasn't. You're welcome to call it Monochr Law of Paradigms.

I have nothing intelligent to say without reading the full paper... ...But, how different is this from the various optical illusions humans fall for? I mean we can't exactly tell t…

"A URL is not a mark of quality. It's not proof of honesty or approval from the FDA."

You mean the tyrannical power grabbing centralized monstrosity all real Americans hated? Because that's what the Constitution was to the real Americans who founded this country and…

Oh you mean the Articles of Confederation which were so poorly thought it the country was imploding after 10 years so badly that they had to start from scratch and write a whole ne…

> Munira had falsified her educational record on her resume to Amazon and all her former employers - claiming to have both a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science from Stanford…