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The best binary parser I had was in the Practical Common Lisp book in the MP3 chapter. I was able to use it to reverse engineer several custom formats used to stitch files includin…

It depends on how the lawmakers see it and how far the enforcers are willing to go. Not everyone is willing to shoot lead into a large gathering of people the less of them the bett…

I've heard from a law student in China that the law is a tool to control the masses. Assuming that is true, ignoring the law is simply taking things under control and bribery is th…

Vacancy tax is insane idea. What is stopping a bunch of crooks scaring away your renters until you sell them a house you intended to hand over to your children?

There is an implication that they clap for whomever they think they are supposed to clap for in your statement. I have doubts that is a good thing.

If he "had" to fight for Germans he would be in Wehrmacht. Not in Waffen SS that was the tip of the spear of Nazi ideology.

Organized crime during prohibition was there because there was demand and someone willing to risk it for money. Demand for cheaper (stolen) goods was always there and the risk was …

Isn't that grounds for a lawsuit?

Almost every company internally works as command economy. I doubt that it can scale any more than that.

In other words, your stock investment better be worth it or get taxed if you change your mind. This tax policy introduces positive feedback loop that makes big companies like Amazo…

Isn't there a tax policy where investors have to pay a tax when they sell shares? Therefore incentivizing them to keep investing in companies promising long-term stable growth (aka…

Who decides whether there is need for a receptionist that watches TV all day and occasionally yells at teenagers smoking in the hall? How is such job compensated? How do you measur…

If you need someone else to force something they don't want to do (get a certification) you negotiate with the entity who has the monopoly on violence to maybe consider your recomm…

> The problematic element of it is when companies charge these sorts of absurd fees for a design that was produced decades ago (the E-3 is not a new aircraft by any means) and not …

After staring down find(1) on an AIX system I regret not going down the du | grep path. At least that way I wouldn't be stuck trying to mash GNU's parameters into completely incomp…

I usually tell it to add confidence score of whether it's real and to prioritize real stuff

From talking to a handful of people it is usually to fulfill someone else's expectations. If the goals aren't aligned ethics don't matter, the student doesn't want to be in that sc…

I think the only way to change it is for the change to come from within the industry. As the factions that get hurt by this get stronger the more likely they succeed.

From what I've understood it's a TOTP without the air gap of user typing the code manually.

AI (or any other breakthrough tech) will only exaggerate the difference set up by the tax code. As long as there is an incentive to keep corporations growing the divide will increa…

It is an illusion if you cannot create your job for yourself. Be it polishing pebbles or selling hard boiled eggs.

For starters treat the kids like people. I don't know how many times kids compared their schools to prisons. Nobody wants to be in prison. The home environment also contributes a g…

A small reminder: In the age of Unix multiuser systems were very common. Fork was the optimal solution to be able to serve as much concurrent users or programs as possible while ke…

Isn't that what Jewish shabbat is about? I guess they had realized it far earlier than us.

In my humble opinion lower people's expectations or make them explicit. These days many people have perception that the society is having unrealistic expectations from them. They r…