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I have been highly active in online technical communities since the usenet days in the 1980s and I have never once found myself in a situation where my opinions on sex or gender we…

Doesn't help with how often it is wrong, but if you preface every question with "terse answer please" at least you don't get the superfluous text tsunami and it sticks to the point…

Very similar to my experience. I never managed to either ask or answer a question on there. Everything I did was "bad" for reasons that were never explained to me in a constructive…

What if it is illegal to withhold the data during an investigation? Isn't the executive then committing a crime?

> people, who do not want to pay for the leftist dreamworld Except that time and time again, it turns out that the "leftist dreamworld" is actually cheaper. Providing subsidized ho…

> why is rail treated so differently? Because there's a huge ecosystem that is substantially dependent on private use of roadways - car manufacturers, sellers, insurers, storage fa…

I suspect that's peanuts compared to all the subsidies and unaccounted externalities for car use.

Then you've instead created sprawl which has huge ongoing costs in terms of resource and energy use, as well as disconnecting people and communities.

> In particular, I don't understand how their results don't imply that human-level intelligence can't exist. I don't think that's what it said. It said that it wouldn't happen from…

> why does the JS ecosystem seem to have "more fear" than for example the Python ecosystem? Perhaps it's because so many JS developers - quite rightfully - suffer from impostor syn…

> The glass bin we have in Amsterdam isn't one that you can even push broken glass into if you wanted - it's shaped specifically to receive bottles. It wouldn't take large shards o…

So is all this data scraped by creating fake frequent flyer accounts and then making new ones as each one gets banned by the airline? Doesn't seem sustainable in the long term. As …

How would they have been able to see the content of a request from the router to AWS if it was HTTPS?

If they intercepted it, then one must assume it was truly plaintext. Because if they were able to get access to the private key for Linksys's server certificate, that would be even…

I have heard that in some markets the only way to get unlimited service from Comcast (with no monthly cap) is to use their hardware.

And in many Muslim countries, drinking is a big part of the culture notwithstanding the religious dicta (or even legal penalties). Iran loves its wine. Indonesia loves its arak.

Given the reliable correlation between an active social life and longevity, I'm going to mirror your bet.

Leaving early sucks.

However people don't live very long in India. In East Asia, where people do live a long time, you will be offered alcohol routinely. I'm not saying there's a causal relationship he…

> Did people in the past make bread without sugar? They do it in the present. Greetings from Europe. I hold in my hand a loaf of cheap (€1.20) supermarket bread, which tastes perfe…

Why would you ever do that? How do you know it is not compromised? Carry your phone (many people already do this on a daily or near-daily basis in 2024) and use that in an emergenc…

fail2ban has a lot of moving parts, I don't think that's necessarily more secure. I would trust the OpenSSH developers to do a better job with the much simpler requirements associa…

One of my clients has a setup for their clients - some of which connect from arbitrary locations, and others of which need to be able to scripted automated uploads - to connect via…

> There is no need for roads to be public infrastructure. It can be fully privatized and people be asked to pay for its use. (While entire compontent of taxes that go towards road …

They can be built much more quickly than nuclear plants and they take coal and oil out of furnaces right now, which is exactly what we need. That's nothing but good.