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"In as much detail as possible, describe what is happening when I enter https://google.com into the browser and hit enter"

The Libor scandal is not an issue?

I have come back from week long international trips, having arrived by plane on Monday or Tuesday, and by Thursday someone will ask me what I did last weekend, and I'll draw a blan…

That is the goal of Vanilla OS! https://vanillaos.org/

I agree and you are correct that concept of legibility was central, however going from the text now I believe that James takes specific issue with joint combination of both the exe…

It is not the "dispassionate dividing of the world into rigid categories" necessary in order to implement software that is morally or ethically problematic, it is the imposition of…

I was referring to the statute, in that you shall capitalize R&D. That's not just the plain language of the statute [1], or how the Congress who passed it interpreted it [2], it's …

Whether you can shop around to find someone who can tell you what you want to hear is unrelated to the mixed fact and law question of whether it is a defensible position that softw…

It’s a cash flow issue, not a tax rate issue.

Shall means shall, as in it’s mandatory.

I would not complain about a free open source tool because they don’t do a good job of marketing it.

Security teams don't bear the costs of reduced productivity from saying no, but bear all the blame if they make a wrong decision to approve something. So they're heavily incentiviz…

I'm not sure what your argument is exactly. They haven't transferred the depositors' balances to new banks, they've simply issued them IOUs (receivership certificates). From what i…

A previous thread [1] discussed Section 174 (mandatory capitalization of R&D expenses). An introduced bill does retroactively reverse it (See (d) Effective Date). [1] https://news.…

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

That's fair. A car that is in a collision is always at best as good as a car that has not been in a collision, whereas that's not the case with an employee who was terminated. I wa…

It can both be true that most of the people who were laid off were done for "performance reasons" and also that it's not rational to reject a candidate because of a "red flag" like…

What a disgusting but revealing story. By saying "being laid off is a red flag" they are loudly signaling that actually they have no way of measuring interview performance and are …

So you would refuse to fund Google (Larry and Sergei being PhD students at Stanford at the time) because they "[have] no business experience"?

I think what makes your definition confusing or misleading is the concept of dual sovereignty. Under the concept of dual sovereignty in a federal system (such as the United States,…

I'm just citing it for the context of the argument both for and against appeal to authority being fallacious and irrational, not that Wikipedia is the final arbiter of what's ratio…

I was not aware of abduction before today, thank you! I think we may agree in practice if not in theory. I did have the Hume-an problem of induction explicitly on my mind. It would…

I trust that when I drive over a bridge it won't collapse. But I cannot say I know that the bridge won't collapse. Knowledge is a true and justified belief. But trust is not a just…

It’s an obvious risk that the issuer of a perpetual license goes out of business.