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The plan is the outcome of the investigation. The point is to figure out what went wrong and how to prevent it in the future.

For sure. Let's judge the entire community based on one incident from one person.

Who is responsible for paying the fine if the self-driving car breaks the law?

High school math is often taught as simple facts, without proper explanation of the significance or how it's derived. It's entirely possible to learn how radians correspond to degr…

It's hard to take your claim seriously that people readily respect technical expertise, when I see "Twitter is just caching" repeated on this very site all the time.

He's not generating bigotry. He is saying that people who are uneducated in politics on a fundamental level are trying to make the rules that govern us all. Not that they are value…

When you refuse to acknowledge the value of expertise in a field, you are effectively discrediting the entire field. You really think you know just as much as someone who has studi…

It's not really. The point is that the market is segmented and you need to target the segment for which your product is the right fit. People who already have a fully-featured tool…

I expect you've only noticed one case of sexism. That only one case was overt enough that, despite being a man, it affected you. Many women in the field have countless stories of d…

If you're only doing one or two things, the value is a bit more vague. But consider even the simplest interaction: the config file for a service should look like X, and if it has t…

It's not about whether or not to use Watsi now, but a concern on behalf of Watsi. I'm not going to refrain from donating today because Watsi might go away tomorrow, but I'm certain…