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There are actually many parts of the world where such voices are routinely positive or neutral[0]. People in more collectivist cultures often have a less-strict division between th…

Australia simply forces people to save a portion of their income into investable retirement accounts. Because the money goes towards productive investment rather than funding what …

According to the US Copyright Office, fully AI-generated works aren’t eligible for copyright because they don’t have human authors. They’re in the public domain by default. See: ht…

We have quite a bit of insight into Indian scam centers thanks to the work of scambaiters like Jim Browning[1] who frequently hack into their CCTV cameras and desktops. The big dif…

That’s a good thing. Expanded slogans have object-level meanings. Acronyms just stand as identity markers, and are much easier to dismiss. It’s harder to argue against “Make Americ…

It seems like if you created a new operating system to solve these problems and it gained some traction, you'd fracture the landscape even more. Unless your operating system happen…

What unexplored space do you think is ripe for a totally new operating system?

But couldn't you just claim somebody else's name/address (such as your neighbor's) when you go vote? Or is a photo stored on the voter roll?

So they'd split off Google Ads then create another ad platform to sell ads on their properties? Why would anyone use the independent Google Ads?

I wonder why they haven't implemented this after so many years. It can't be much more difficult than integrating highlight.js and MathJax, and it's lost them at least one big publi…

You can always use a privacy coin. Even if they get banned from exchanges, you can transact within the coin, then use an atomic cross-chain swap to cash out to bitcoin. Alternately…

>But I definitely think there's room for more comprehensive and transparent documentation to bridge the gap between the source code and barebones docs. This is usually provided by …

There's an inherent trade-off between decentralisation and computing price+performance, so it's likely that centralised exchanges will continue to be cheaper and faster for higher-…

WebP images support animation, and they're fully supported in Chromium and Firefox[0], but Safari support seems flaky[1] [0]: https://caniuse.com/webp [1]: https://stackoverflow.co…

It's a combination microwave/convection oven.

Well the first year of the Iraq War cost the US $54 billion, according to congress's budget[0]. This doesn't include the total cost of the supporting infrastructure need to be able…

I didn't think typosquatting actually worked. I wonder if there's a general way to figure out the most common misspellings of a given domain name...

The nudity exception is probably more along the lines of the usual carve-outs for 'scientific, educational, or artistic' content.

Somewhat disappointed "securities fraud" wasn't mentioned, although the SEC is ever-present.

Elixir and Phoenix is a great option. As a functional language, the focus is on pipelines of functions that progressively transform data structures, which is how Phoenix processes …

Isn't the Messenger app a "messenger only app that does not include a feed for me to angrily browse."? They also seem to have standalone web and desktop versions at messenger.com

It's not clear that the government is legally able to censor all types of spam. If the spam is commercial, the Central Hudson four-pronged test on commercial speech restrictions ap…

Is the 1.2% intended as a contrast to the "<1%" claim?

I believe the concepts in the first paper are unrelated to those of modern lenses (i.e. functional references). See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17198072/how-is-anamorph...…

I doubt this explanation really captures the gist of the phenomenon. Many current and upcoming trends (containers/Kubernetes, machine learning and Rust, for instance) have suffered…