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In most of the world, "liberal" doesn't mean the left half of the political spectrum. In many places it's the centerish part and in a few places it's the rightish part. In the US, …

The security concerns were not addressed by not accepting new links. As the post you replied to said, > The play was to scrape the web for old goo.gl links that went to expired dom…

You are mistaken. Discretionary spending is spending that Congress allocates during the annual appropriation process, while mandatory spending is spending that is required by prior…

Antitrust suits were filed against these four companies in November, alleging that they conspired to fix prices: https://archive.is/fp44d

I don't think this sort of communication from guessers to clue giver is in the spirit of the game (at least in my play group). However, inflating later clues is a reasonable approa…

You would like to slice (half) an onion in a way that minimizes the variance in volume of the pieces. The problem is then simplified to slicing half an onion in a way that minimize…

But the immunity is only presumptive for acts within the outer perimiter of the president's official responsibility. For core constitutional powers, like giving orders to the milit…

Note -- AIUI the js and wasmgc are both produced from the same Java codebase. The problem here is that the developers on the Java codebase had started making changes based on their…

Not only that, but a code reader can rely on this too. If you only use a raw for loop when you're skipping around, then the reviewer / future reader can slow down to understand wha…

A clean history is one where there is a single commit, "big feature commit", that produces a worktree that is the same as the one produced by "fix 3" in the "unclean" history.

In many of these bank failures, the problem has been that they are holding very safe loans at an interest rate that is too low for today's environment. In practice, if they are all…

Here's what's balancing: I've traded assets worth X dollars for a company with Y dollars of tangible assets plus G, the fudge factor that makes both sides equal. I've traded X doll…

The monetary number is not made up out of whole cloth. It's the difference between the book value of the tangible assets of a company as an accountant understands them, and the amo…

I suspect that it's "Adding Scheduler Activations to Mach 3.0", presented at the Usenix Mach III Symposium in 1993. https://dada.cs.washington.edu/research/tr/1992/08/UW-CSE-92...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laszlo_Bock

Coming in late, but I think you're misunderstanding the suggestion, which was to make pedestrian avoidance standard equipment on all new cars , not just autonomous vehicles.

I still remember the mnemonic my 9th grade Spanish teacher gave for this: DONT BE LOCO DONT: Ser is for Description, Origin, Nationality, and Time. BE: these verbs mean "to be" LOC…

A large component of the time value of money is the rate of return that a dollar today brings in vs a dollar in the future. With super-low interest rates, the time value of money i…

If you're in New York City, this may be related to rules on rent stabilization. Rent stabilized apartments can only raise their rent by a small percentage each year. These landlord…

http://www.cppgm.org/ was a sort of experiment called "C++ Grand Master Certification." It seems to have died out, but the goal was to produce a self-hosted C++-11 compiler and sta…

How does this differ from gold-backed currency?

It's subseqence. For instance, in ABXCDYEFGZ QARBCSTDEFG You want to find [Q]A[R]B(X)C[ST]D(Y)EFG(Z) ABCDEFG is the longest common subsequence, QRST are the additions and XYZ are t…