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Perhaps I phrased it poorly - what I meant was that one can view the Home Secretary's requests for less privacy as a fact of life (just as death and taxes), and could consider refu…

It is the duty of the Home Secretary (and the UK's various nosey institutions - e.g. intelligence agencies, police, etc) to continuously badger us for this information - unfortunat…

Hi HN, I've been developing a few server deployment playbooks with Ansible lately, but the playbooks use the root user by default. I've always felt that root logins are "dangerous"…

Pls note that sharing is not endorsement. Just thought it was newsworthy.

> A standard test in brain damage research involves dropping brass weights on the heads of anesthetized rats, then inspecting their brains for tearing in the connections between ne…

Actually, that's a good point - I hadn't considered the legal ramifications of such a stance. It's interesting that you mention people seeking damages from the creator of the car's…

I (perhaps somewhat naively) assumed that a self-driving car would be programmed to prioritise the occupants of the vehicle (as that most closely emulates the likely reactions of a…

Brilliant post, thanks for the information. I had no idea that Mou was so sketchy! As it turns out, I've stopped using Mou because some of the functionality is quite buggy (e.g. it…

I'm spending a fair amount of time drafting out reports and papers lately and Markdown is the simplest, cleanest way to write with as few distractions as possible. Any recommendati…

Google link: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&...

It's about 8km west of this "easter egg": https://www.google.pt/maps/place/Takht+Pari+Forest/@33.51409... So it seems likely that somebody found this one while browsing the immedia…