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What is necessarily provocative about the term? Both the noun and verb forms of the word "desert" fit well here, especially in the context of the history that this article talks ab…

Thank you! I think this is the first time I've logged in for 10 years. I don't mind the current UI change, but I wish significant changes would come with a toggle button to let me …

Exactly. - There's nothing scarier than "the automation had no rate-limiting or health-checking". Of course, what do we mean by automation? At some point it becomes impractical to …

I'm going to guess somewhere between 50 and 400 people. Smaller than 50: this is probably an org where "we maintain the source code and documentation. Running, debugging, and scali…

Combining a traffic circle with stop signs is a recipe for confusion. One thing that Seattle has going for it here is it's very narrow streets, probably 1/2 the size of that inters…

> China currently has two Panamax ports, with a third on the way. Vietnam has none and is building its first. The U.S., by comparison, has 42 by my count. [5] I'm curious how Panam…

Her Hainish novels (SF) may be more to your liking, but I think all of her works are informed by the kind of mysticism that informed her translation of the Tao Te Ching . What made…

I read The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed at the beginning of the year, just before she passed away. This summer I the first four books of the Earthsea series and will …

Your data is encrypted as soon as it exits the VM and before it's written to storage. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/#ssd_encryption

> An official website of the United States government Here's how you know... > This site is also protected by an SSL certificate that's been signed by the U.S. government... Oh rea…

Ten years ago I thought we were all going to solve this with OpenID and strong protections on the provider side. [1] What happened? I know a bunch of providers moved on to OAuth wh…

It's not ad hominem to point out that these videos are being produced by an organization that has historically taken one side on the issue of tort reform. I edited my comment to in…

So these videos are hosted on Youtube by the U.S. Chamber Institute For Legal Reform, which describes itself as "a national campaign, representing the nation's business community, …

See also: the 2011 documentary film "Hot Coffee" about the case and so called tort reform in the US legal system. http://www.hotcoffeethemovie.com/

Can someone explain the appeal of so-called "slim SIMs"? As I understand it, this allows you to load two accounts on a single device? And carriers don't like this aspect---or is it…