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> But to do so would leave you alone and a lunatic. Here's the thing though, I know quite a few people who have done this. It's not particularly easy (after all, most of the comple…

Oof. There are two pieces to this story. One is great and one his heartbreaking. The fact that modern tech has disintermediated people with problems to solve from the need for a "p…

Places that aren't the United States aren't obliged to treat their history of speech the way the US does. The US's protections are rooted in observations of local authority (and Cr…

You are both correct, but rayiner's comment goes to the up-thread rhetorical question: > Has anything changed since the sacred texts were written or we just going to keep acting as…

There's a rhetorical dodge in this argument where it transitioned from talking about property destruction to talking about harming people. One can cause the other, but the burden o…

It is a (possibly flawed) feature of the US Constitutional form of government that there is a proper channel for adjusting the enumerated rights in it, and that process is via amen…

The problem is, unfortunately, those data lakes are in the category "safe until they aren't." Germany has some of the most restrictive data collection laws in the European sphere, …

The only silver lining I can see in this is that if they replace their existing tooling with AI integration, we might actually get search and confluence that works. I've lost count…

I soft of feel like every five years someone comes along and tries to re-invent cancellable threads and immediately arrives back at the same conclusion: the problem of what it mean…

Between Brexit and the aging population, I don't think joining the rest of the world in poisoning the atmosphere for the future faster is going to improve the UK's situation. There…

Or be a lot uglier. See: Microsoft replacing its own API surfaces with binary-compatible representations to workaround companies like Adobe adding perf improvements like bypassing …

No official reason given, so all the tech press is basically speculating (if someone finds a source that does a teardown, please share; I can't seem to locate one). I think my favo…

General question because I'm ignorant of UK internal politics: are the Isles' energy prices just generally higher? There aren't any large sources of fossil fuels or natural gas tha…

The terrorists that struck the World Trade Center targeted a building too. If we aren't going to have a military doctrine that cares about who's in the building, we will be treated…

And fundamentally, this is aUS doctrine issue. The US is willing to strike targets in foreign soul with no boots-on-the-ground confirmation of target nature. It's how the Obama adm…

It's always seemed fundamentally flawed to me that the exchange laws are designed to prevent people benefitting from insider information but then the entire purpose of the stock ex…

Is it silly? Yes. But still... I am in love with the people who are obsessed with minutae. The world ultimately runs on prime who care. Thise obsessed with patterns are first to no…

For what it's worth, the wall of text is extremely helpful. I, for one, learn mostly by text and whether or not an LLM generated this, the output is true it is well written and eas…

Using xcode does require paying Apple, unless you've gotten your hands on a free copy of the OS and/or free Apple hardware somehow.

Google still doesn't make you pay s dollar to write an app on their architecture (only to have it hosted in their store).

No because those cost more to maintain than the digital ones. Nobody is restoring the budget that got cut because the meters got cheaper.

> Ruining Android for everyone to try to maybe help some rather technologically-hopeless groups of people is the wrong solution. Those groups of people are Google's paying customer…

So can it be breached by turning off networking and setting the date forward a couple days?

Perhaps interesting here is that some of the things he said were definitely not defensible via "truth is an affirmative defense." But it's ultimately up to the jury, and they can a…

We are, of course, not privy to the jury's reasoning unless they choose to divulge it. Which is unfortunate, because we may never know if they concluded "Given who you've demonstra…