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They are suggesting lobbying to change the law, rather than struggling with current law in court.

Whenever discussing the US flag code it's important to mention that the statute is unconstitutional as determined in United States v. Eichman. What the flag code says about clothin…

Why would you care about per-journey statistics? Surely all that's demonstrating is that cars are often used for very brief, non-highway travel. When the question is of how to trav…

Others have commented that many of these are general shell or terminal quoting problems. Something that stood out for me is that the author did not mention ^V, which is very useful…

The answer to #4 is probably that the goal isn't to always have ice cream. The goal is to run a profitable business. Doubling the cost of the ice cream infrastructure to avoid a 25…

Ah, I see your point. Here's the catch: Large buffer sizes only increase efficiency for sequential reads. mmap() is still much faster for random access within a file. Doubly so, be…

Yes, the overhead is per-syscall. The number of read() syscalls shrinks as the per-call buffer grows. With mmap() of course we only ever have one syscall to create the initial mapp…

Kind of. The real problem is that E2E means losing all server-side videoconferencing features - very few people actually want E2E. It's not an add-on feature. The ramifications are…

Well, we generally do not prohibit abusive speech. What's prohibited is targeting people with speech who do not wish to participate (or who cannot, statutorily). Plenty of adults f…

I don't think the person you're replying to is being dishonest. You've simply listed reasons as to why this content isn't acceptable. Of course there are often reasons why content …

Program identifiers use exact matches. The analogy works fine understanding this context. It's possible to extend any analogy in a way that doesn't make sense, which is what you've…

It sounds like the original analogy is apt, and your followup analogy isn't.

What does "1 inch narrower" mean to you, in the context of this analogy? Are you suggesting the interfaces have different names? Different sized arguments? None of those things wou…

And this is why Google had to copy the interface -- otherwise their runtime would not operate with other existing products. As you can see given your example, the analogy is a perf…

The car's width is absolutely its interface with respect to roadway interoperability. We aren't talking about user interfaces here. This lawsuit does not involve UX. We are talking…

Home depot will rent you a pickup for an hour for $20. And you can drive it to pick up at stores that aren't Home Depot. There's also the idea of making friends with someone who ha…

Requiring employers to fund PPE purchases seems like a reasonable answer to this problem. $10/day/employee is a modest cost of doing business when compared with other labor expense…

It seems crazy we don't have cameras recording at all times on airplanes. Even cars have dashcams.

The model used by https://lobste.rs/about#invitations seems to work well. Create a graph.

"But the full-time drivers are the one stakeholder class that created much of Uber's value" This is not a true statement. Uber is not worth $55b because they have performed a lot o…

You may want to re-evaluate your opinion. The "tracking microchip" conspiracies mostly stem from tracking chips (dumb RFID) used to tag wildlife. These people don't know how the te…

It's already 54% for folks with a 7 figure income deriving their income from short term investments (say, stock options). This is almost always the case in tech. 37% federal 13.3% …

" you need a complete lack of labor rights." What on earth does a lack of labor rights have to do with capitalism? Labor can be -- and often is -- unprotected in all economic struc…

"If you manage to find a vulnerability in this system, I don't think I even mind, " Taking a quick photo doesn't illuminate the LED for long enough for a human to reliably notice. …

It's often hard to find anyone of any characteristic for many projects so it shouldn't be surprising that it's also hard to find people of a specific sub-group.