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There’s no need to speculate that Melinda had special knowledge. Epstein was convicted of procuring a child for prostitution in 2008 and was subsequently a registered sex offender.…

Kimono is 着物 which transliterates to “wear-thing.” It’s the word for clothes, not just the traditional robes, and it’s not etymologically related to a word for Winter in any langua…

Similarly, awesome is great, but awful is terrible. And terrible and terrifying are bad, but terrific is awesome.

Maybe. But a possible contributor for the 1918 flu pandemic's relative obscurity is that it overlapped with World War I and was followed within ~20 years by the Great Depression an…

No. If Alice reports Bob, the report only includes the most recent messages from Bob to Alice as forwarded from Alice's local copy of their chat. No other messages are made availab…

No. WhatsApp does not keep delivered messages, and, by default, messages are end-to-end encrypted and cannot be read by WhatsApp.[1] As shown in the screenshots of the reporting fe…

But it isn’t a good point absent the bad assumption that the mentally ill are more dangerous. It only takes one bicyclist that’s fallen off his bike to kill you. So what?

I appreciate that they decided to apologize, but I find this statement lackluster at best. A better, more earnest apology would properly address the major concerns Jeremy raised. T…

No. Look at the cookbook application ( http://weboob.org/applications/qcookboob ). It incorporates multiple sources of recipes behind a single, consistent, tailor-made interface. T…

For the specific problem of easily setting up Python environments, you may wish to look into pipenv: https://pipenv.pypa.io/en/latest/

“Mendaciously pretending,” is over the top. Even if you don’t agree with the author’s point, even if you think the tested users are idiots or unrepresentative, there’s simply no ju…

There’s an important point to be made here about the gap between theoretical and practical security. Overly elaborate password policies (excessive complexity demands, passwords exp…

It’s interesting to me that these kinds of things are not catalogued and advertised like other vulnerabilities. This is an exploitable information leak using an endpoint that many …

There may be situations where 15-30 direct reports is workable, but that is a very large number of reports. Academic studies generally settle on a maximum effective team size aroun…

About 15 years ago, I built a system like this for a web application. I defined a series of core extension points such as the request router and authentication and authorization pr…

I think your issue isn’t with universities and certainly isn’t with me. Reading between the lines, I think your complaint is with the systemic over-valuing of university degrees by…

This is a very strange article and premise to me. A university education is not vocational training. A CS education includes courses in programming, but learning to program—indeed,…

I’ve never met anyone that assumed a time estimate was a, “hard deadline,” but every time deadlines are questioned, someone says, “You’re assuming it’s a hard deadline.” Can I conv…

You don’t need a deadline to establish priorities and ensure the team is focused on those priorities. Nor does a deadline actually prevent procrastination. We all have had homework…

Hmm. That’s neat. But usually someone has a bank card or other membership card with a support line on it. Is there some reason to not just call one to report the found wallet? The …

I don’t see what legal or technical argument you’re making. Technically, of course you can identify IP ranges owned by certain entities and restrict their access. That’s trivial, s…

This is wrong. CUE has optional closed schemas marked by a double colon. The V3 entity you’re talking about is explicitly declared to be a closed definition and therefore disallows…

Are property crime stats adjusted in any way for wealth, inequality, or cost of living?

The ability to apply the same argument to another situation has no probative value. Any policy has its pros and cons. One can support vacancy taxes/fines without supporting other t…

The “set” command lets you override the positional arguments but starting at $1. You cannot directly set $0. But you can set BASH_ARGV0, and the value of $0 changes accordingly.