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"As it master, I should be able to force my machine into giving me access of private fields." If you're writing the code then you can do whatever you want with it. But if I'm writi…

The difference between a heap allocated string (String), a static string literal embedded in the binary (&str), and a stack allocated string ([char], but this is more common in C t…

Not at all, that's why we have moderators. Hacker news is interesting because they stay focused on the right topics. If you let people just talk about whatever they want, you're ju…

Right, but you could theoretically say this about any software or technology (and this argument has very frequently in the past been used to argue against technologies like cars an…

> "you can't think of any uses for facial recognition surveillance that pegs you at specific locations at specific times? You can't imagine a single way how to monetize that data a…

“There has long been a concern [facial recognition] could invade upon people's lives through expanded surveillance and through the criminalization of just existing within the publi…

I say that you're not thinking critically because your arguments are very weak and you don't provide any inference or evidence to support your conclusions. It's irrelevant that "yo…

>Say what you will, but I won't be able to espouse the virtues of freedom of speech in China anymore. The real reason you can't "espouse the virtues of freedom of speech in China" …

This is a really poor argument. You are equating banning one social media app with the GFW, which is obviously a huge hyperbole which has nothing to do with reality. The Great Fire…

> Is it acceptable to correct the answer to the query "Eminent scientist" from 95% men, 5% woment to 50%/50% or to the current ratio of men/women in science ? Should we correct the…

The longer I remain a software engineer the more I hate relying on computers. Maybe the people closest to the technology are the ones to first realize how superficial and downright…

> It’s a bit nonsensical to compare the number of words in English to the number of packages in PyPi, but we can agree that both English and Python are very rich languages, and no …

Yes, in the sense that if P = NP, it would conceptually be a lot easier in theory to break a lot of public key encryption, which are NP hard problems.

>Probably more of those, but the stories are far less dramatic. Evidence shows that having an excess of resources actually leads to more financial irresponsibly, not less. Or as th…

>Where management is helped more by having resources than it is by understanding it. There are many examples of lottery winners, athletes, and celebrities who came across considera…

I'd argue that you're not really using the credit on your credit card as a credit card. You're using it as a charge card. Exponential growth is a fundamental concept of financial l…

> Using a credit card isn't very abstract. To use a credit card responsibly you need to understand the concept of exponential growth, or you might accidentally turn a manageable $5…

It's way, way more than just a tool that improves thought. It's a necessary tool to organize your life. How can you even budget or use a credit card responsibly if you don't know a…

The CMF was designed by people who don't like math and prioritize the "human experience" over physical reality. When you read through the CMF, you begin to see all sorts of hints t…

A linter or IDE can only "suggest" that you don't access null objects without a null check. You as the developer can choose to ignore the linter or IDE and write bad code anyway. E…

Article is subscription locked, so I just read the (patronizing and reductive) headline. The problem never has been lack of housing. The problem has always been lack of land. You c…

"In hight school your math teacher may have started a treatment of linear algebra by making you solve a system of linear equations, at which point you very sensibly zoned out becau…

3 is the following function: 3 == lambda x: 3*x But I think that the technical, mathematical way to think about it is: The monoid of linear functions L:R->R is isomorphic to the mo…