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apple's future US factories ?

I worked a while next to a statistics department of a university. Given the wealth of the people in that building - or even the smell, on bad days, I'd say you can probably do bett…

Another obvious consequence: millions of very poor people henceforth having access to the internet, financial tools, etc. All of these millions of people have nothing to lose and o…

Weird that nobody realizes that the constitution does say that the government not only has the right to violate any (other) law to violate the constitution, but actually has the du…

I would argue that C++ is a language that effectively encompasses all other (imperative) languages. Where other languages have a few options, C++ has all of them. If you know C++ y…

There's also, when it comes to hirability, the other end of the equation. When you know Java, PHP or even Ruby and Python, you've got craploads of competition. There's loads and lo…

The argument was for well-paid employees. Those greeters certainly don't fall in that category.

This thread is working on a false premise. The article claims that all photosynthesis-based energy production is inherently massively inefficient and thus, a bad idea. This include…

I take offence at your blanket use of "religion". It is not "religion" at all. It is doubly hypocritical since the biggest atheist state of the 20th century has sponsored plenty of…

How about we take the declaration of human rights solution. As soon as one side in the conflict uses non-clearly marked military bases and/or forces, the other side gains the right…

Except that will not accomplish Palestinian goals at all : if Palestinians show restraint, that will be followed immediately by Israeli restraint, and there will be peace. Palestin…

I don't think you can have it both ways. Either we can predict the effect of things on the environment (co2, and other things we could use for geoengineering), or we cannot. If you…

Most HFT firms simply do arbitrage. They don't do actual price predictions.

Does this even matter ? "Average" income hasn't been growing now in America for about a decade. If you look closely there are 2 factors at play : 1) increase in population 2) stagn…

The problem with all the stupid "this is not islam" posts is simple : Did "the prophet" kill people (cruelly) just for disagreeing with him according to muslim scripture ? And the …

Sure we can. We just should understand what any adaptation means : killing 90% of the human race. But when it comes to extinction, we can be pretty sure that's not going to happen.…

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but the Higgs Boson does not have anything to do with gravity, with one curious exception. But it's "main" job is inertia. The Higgs Boson get…

That's true to a degree. But when you think about it, there does not exist any physical quantity that can be specified as an irrational number (because every measurement is quantiz…

This is a cloud filesystem with synchronization we're talking about. Yeah, sure Google is working on one (slowly). Also: - Amazon - Shelfspace (rackspace's real name) - Telstra - M…

That's what they're working on. http://www.dropbox.com/developers

Nobody goes to prison for copyright violations. That's civil law. It has the exact properties you desire it has. So what happened in this case ? I don't know. Maybe she violated a …

Cute, but it's not like it is somehow a surprise that this is illegal. They come for thieves, fraudsters, ... too. Until the law changes, that's exactly what the government should …

True, but that's a fairly recent phenomenon and it's not even true for the more fundamental discoveries. Unless you mean the philosophical ideal of empirical research, in which cas…

Heh, the constitution says exactly what those rights are based on. It's a nice point though. So we have rights, not because of the constitution, but because Jesus said so. The main…

There is no legal answer to that question. There's no precedent and the law is, to say the least, less than clear on the subject.