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Right, google drive has a big problem with public file hosting and piracy. If the content is encrypted the safe harbor becomes trivial to preserve.

The idea of receiving your first communion at SCHOOL is fairly mind-boggling to an american!

This is completely false. I have no degree, and it’s not super difficult to get through the interview stage at google (depends on what part of the stack you’re aimed at, though). P…

Just a note, not trying to pick your anecdote, but the experience of something seemingly occuring frequently out of nowhere is exactly the baader-meinhof phenomenon. You’d need to …

Well, it’s hard to draw any conclusion about confirmation bias without understanding the first two questions :) but you’re right, this could be baader-meinhof phenomena at work.

I mean “so what” is almost always “so i can understand better”. Granted not always for the most productive ends....

Ehh, as someone with anxiety, it’s not that straightforward. Maybe you join it to socialize and improve your self esteem. Granted, the members I know just really like puzzles.

In this case, it’s not clear who the fraudsters deceived. If it’s the advertisers, how do you demonstrate malice rather than, uhh, stupidity? If it’s the consumers, that just seems…

This is certainly click fraud. Is that fraud in the legal sense?

After email, of course.

Note, media outlets do not have medical degrees, but do have a vested interest in generating controversy.

I think there is (limited) semantic value to single page forms. They also encourage api first design. Is this always worth it? Certainly not. But it does have value.

Well, I’d assume price competition. (I appreciate the response!) How can you expect prices to improve if you can’t shop around?

Hmm, I suppose we have different standards for evidence.

While that may be true, the causal link between government spending and high prices is unclear. The vast majority of waste I see getting healthcare myself is the absolutely massive…

That is true, but you’re focusing on the php part rather than the median php position part, which is the relevant point to the discussion.

I would not describe government as heavily involved in health care. The prices you see rising are from lack of meaningful competition and transparency allowing providers and insura…

Well, average pay in SF is only high if you ignore the homeless person sleeping on your stoop. In that sense the job would be extremely rewarding compared to other parts of the cou…

I actually intepreted that as the jobs require a very low level of skill and provide low compensation—exactly what you’d expect from making a job “blue collar”.

I wouldn’t even call it a blue collar job: the labor isn’t very intense, the pay is excellent, and it’s very stable; easily salariable compared to seasonal and contract work (thoug…

I think this is most analagous to simd in terms of issueing a single computation over multiple words of data, which would work well for both zeroing data and operating on scalar ar…

It actually sounds like you’re describing the leadup to wwi. These conditions lead to war, not against it. I’d love to hear a contrary opinion for the downvote I got: gross economi…

it certainly is a news source.

SMS is really hard. While my name isn’t Twilio Engineer, it might as well be SMS engineer.

Well this is true, but it’s certianly a far cry from the high employment prospects i was brought up believe STEM fields offered. My sister is on her second post doc; while the mone…