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A Corporate Republic (from Civilization: Call to Power, one of the government types available in the Genetic Age). "The Imperial Trading Companies such as the various East India Co…

Instead of $1/day, do $365/year to limit transaction fees. You could even offer to let them withdraw the dividend each month as an allowance or let it reinvest.

I was thinking the same thing. Who is really going to read these updates? If I was forced to do this at a company, I'd probably automate responses with a bot of my own. I'd call it…

It could be worse: PayPal and their 3.1 MB Child_Snowflakes_8_V2.mp4

Not really. One could be deaf or blind from birth, yet fully intelligent. It's more a matter of getting sensory from the world into the brain. That sensory may be visual, auditory,…

It seems a lot of consultancies follow this pattern: 1. Hate permanent job. 2. Start consultancy. 3. Spend half the day finding work/collecting bills; other half programming. 4. Ev…

In reality though, I'd like to know what the author did for health insurance when he quit his job weeks/months after having a baby. Medical risk is very high during this period.. l…

One of the features of KeePass is that you never see or type an actual password. You simply hit CTRL-C to copy the pw to memory and paste into the form. This is a guard against key…

What does this mean: "extraction of KeePass 2.x password database information from memory"? When is KeePass data held in memory? When the program is simply running or only when you…

I've been on two interviews recently, and both saw experience in .NET as a negative. I found myself having to down-play experience in .NET in both cases, in order to guide the disc…

Agreed. Sellers and buyers of domain names (or web sites) selling for at least $300 should use an escrow service. The fee is around $25 and can usually be split between parties. Ju…

That's the problem with oil and gold. No dividends. So you sit on it for a couple of years, earning nothing. Still, oil is a finite resource and is very sensitive to world events, …

Audio books has made "reading" a hobby for me. I never thought I was the type that really enjoyed reading a good book. After switching from radio to audio books while driving, traf…

What if you're the smartest person in the room and also highly paid? It may be more strategic to stay put, save as much as possible, and spend your time getting intellectual stimul…

Same. Even if they did, just take a screenshot of the "Course Records" screen that proves you took the class and the grade. Besides, you can still download the Statement of Accompl…

I just finished this book a couple weeks ago. It was definitely a great one. Although, a difficult book to read, purely from the perspective of the topic. Growing old and/or dying …

Being able to edit files from any physical location is nice. Although you already get this from just using github/bitbucket, for the most part. I think the biggest drawback to an o…

"so I implemented a small neural network and trained it to sort 10 6-bit numbers, which was easy to do to my surprise" Does anyone know what the inputs and outputs of a neural netw…

Yes, but their original bug was from dynamically loading routes from an external source. I don't see how Express is to blame for this. Moving to Restify is not a solution, but they…

Mosquitoes are a food source for many animals, including: fish, birds, spiders, and bats. Maybe those animals could find something else to eat, but there sure are a lot of mosquito…

"But a malformed packet could also be an emergent signal. A self-created packet." If a program sent out a malformed packet, this would indicate an error in the sender's program. Le…

The probability grid is very neat. One question though, it looks like Ship.DIRECTION_VERTICAL and Ship.DIRECTION_HORIZONTAL might be flipped. It seems consistent, so it's ok. Just …