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Supporting free speech doesn't mean that you support absolute free speech without any limitation. We all have a lot of rights, and exercising those rights can impinge on the rights…

Tell that to Iranians...

> I do not understand why homotopy type theory posts are so popular on this website. It's easy. When you don't know a lot of math beyond college, but you see a post like this one, …

Modern IQ tests are normalized with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

I don't think anyone is saying otherwise. It's clear that the discussion is about general public-facing government websites. Something for which the intended audience is a large po…

The sentence "seems ... to me" already carries that meaning.

If I understand you correctly, the issue is that the Swedish government used jargon masquerading as a common word, and as a result people didn't understand the meaning. That's anot…

I don't have the book at hand. Do you have a more precise quote?

Your examples are not jargon, they're metaphors. Jargon exists because specialists in a subject want to communicate quickly among themselves, instead of paraphrasing all the time. …

Well, what's the difference between a "strong non-legal mandate" and a "helpful tip"? Either it's mandatory or not.

Using fewer words introduces less cognitive load and drives your point better. For example, you wrote "The advice [...] seems somewhat pointless to me." Well, are you saying that i…

Please don't link to that website. Would you link to stormfront to make any kind of point here?

This is not the reason jargon exists. What made you say that? > It's the reason that the speaker used all of the tech jargon (launching a website). If they didn't do that then we w…

> However, the main cost is developer-effort involved in keeping track of keys and implementing encryption. As soon as you need encryption in at least one place in your software, i…

You can't check the hash of something you immediately piping to your shell, for example.

Are you sure you're replying to the correct comment?

I'm tired of installation instructions that consist of "curl | sh". Especially since this one just tries to detect the platform and downloads the correct installer for me. I know w…

> Imagine that you are not that popular author whose works are his life savings. Pennies dripping from works you published are your life line that lets you buy food or sustain you …

I don't think anyone has ever asserted copyright on the bible. I'm not quite sure what you're talking about? As for pamphlets, copyright can never prevent you from printing somethi…

This is especially infuriating as a European visiting the US, where a bunch of services are geo-fenced to American IPs. In several towns, I couldn't pay for parking or buy a bus ti…

I guess you can install it in WSL?

Let me get this straight. OP searched for an entry in a sorted list using dichotomic search. Okay... Any CS undergrad can do that. Is there something that I'm missing?

Why is there a post by tailscale on the front page every single day?

> Every time I need to print something to feed some troglodite's requirement, I put a pdf in a pincho and go down the street to the call shop. They don't accept emails? All the one…

That's a nice saying, but it does not really hold true. Sure, banks aren't going to repossess Musk's house or anything like that. But they will recover what they're owed, in some f…