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Hmmm, a dearth of activity on an article about employers expending significant effort, prying into extracurricular social media activity. Maybe this article just " isn't very inter…

Holy shit. That is not even a "pull down menu" as previously reported. Good to know. This means that in Hawaii, you should only think about taking action if the magic FALSE ALARM n…

I disagree.

Gross. It sounds like a total failure to correctly model reality. Like measuring how blue the sky is, based on how much "blue" is left in the universe. The idea they attempt to qua…

Okay, time to add another entry to the list of terrifying trauma complications. Adding it to the subgroup that includes compartment syndrome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartm…

That Napster is depicted as a footnote is pretty inaccurate, considering the title. Paint his story as the story of a kingpin, but this is not "the dawn of" anything beyond his per…

wtf am i readin

Except... the very premise of the service isn’t particularly reasonable. You won’t change my mind, so don’t bother replying.

And this is why I don’t pay for a Netflix subscription. What is it with engineers willing to brainwash themselves regarding what constitutes a “good compromise” within the context …

An infinite spacefiller that produces a flood of wikipedias in a simulation will simply trigger out-of-memory exceptions, silly.

Likely, employers and what is possible in the immediate day-to-day sense.

Payment processors frequently conduct "no-capture" test transactions for authorizations of possibly $1, before tokenizing CC info. Arguably, this follows the pattern of an integrat…

Come on, people. Work with me, work with me.

Networked resources have listeners. Listeners have ears. Ears have wax. A unit test verifies that your Q-tip is made of cotton, and that the cotton is soft and small enough to fit …

Getting extremely creative, one might run a surprisingly unprofitable farm, while paying one's self minimum wage to operate the farm, single-handedly. Getting creative , of course.…

Just because they have easier ways, doesn't mean they need more ways.

We’re not great at environmentally friendly mining. Mountain top removal mining, open pit mining and strip mining are brute force tactics that demonstrate a capacity for efficiency…

A smart human raised in the jungle is but a hairless ape. Similarly, an AI with a superhuman brain, dropped into a human body in our modern world, would likely not develop greater …

"Paying people to do nothing" I think you have the wrong concept in your head. You've missed other portions of the larger economic system, by focusing on an individual atomic resul…

Interesting tidbit: Sweethearts also seem clueless to the presence of jerks, offering concessions to, and excuses for jerk behavior. Question: what's with jerks teaming up? How doe…

In many parts of the United States, well into the nineties, there were no Taco Bell tacos. I didn't get to try Taco Bell until 1995. Growing up, Burritos were these frozen bean-pas…