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I can't really tell if you're saying they're like or unlike YouTube, but YouTube did get acquired

Don't have much of an opnion on him being good at the engineering stuff or not, and not saying I would bet on it, but I could see the logic in shorting TSLA either way, he's distra…

I've seen once or twice people admitting to doing this deliberately to get around brigading/doxxing rules when they actually do want to share the username or whatever - not sure if…

I think in the same way we have expensive cars or whatever to say "I have so much money I can afford to waste $x" we have suits to say "I'm so organised I can spare some effort dre…

This is a good point, but on the other hand, couldn't any application be hijacked in the same way to include a keylogger/upload plaintext password DBs stored locally by browsers/et…

Can you use a plain Hyper-V VM? i.e. with Hyper-V Manager

It still exists and the logins often work, at least for me

Mostly agree but if your diet is particularly bad, just eating less will mean existing nutrient deficiencies are magnified and (probably for this reason) you'll feel more hungry th…

Some companies, you can tell, have realised the word plastic has negative connotations and try to avoid it, normally they'll use the word polycarbonate instead, I think that was wh…

I guess you've heard it before but “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” I don't know whether i…

Sometimes you come back to an area to fix a bug or whatever, and it's useful to know that the hack wasn't absolutely necessary, just a matter of time constraints - it may be that m…

This feels like it proves the point, I believe this is true, but yet, for all situations that aren't very specific and technical, the earth is round, and saying otherwise will caus…

well... yes? > Centipedes (from New Latin centi-, "hundred", and Latin pes, pedis, "foot")

So much emphasis on thinking about gear changes does seem a bit unfamiliar to me - but it could just be since my first driving experience was also manual, I was learning all this i…

People who are net-contributors feel like they're likely to eventually be elderly, and unlikely to become disabled, I guess (so the inverse of your feelings)- combined with decepti…

More bluntly - if you're a greater-than-average user of healthcare resources, this seems like a dangerous line of questioning to bring up.

This is important to say - but I guess the question still stands, if they had somehow secretly developed nukes in say 2008, would they have been left alone? (and should we let ever…

I'm not sure if you're saying this as an argument for standardisation (ha, let's debate the spelling) or not, but these people will always find something, from frameworks to lintin…

I'd never heard of the guy until now so maybe it's obvious but you do wonder in these situations, he must have realised that the questions were leading to an article but did he exp…

So is a million, I've never got this surprisingly common argument based on population size, would it be fine for a country of 100,000 to do nothing/would a hypothetical country 10x…

I've noticed a couple of LED bulbs (one with warnings that it's non-dimmable) where the PWM (presumably) means that even when I'm not looking for it, I'll move my hand quickly to g…

There's presumably a gap between the current level and what's legally required, and they can afford to let things slip a bit without getting in trouble.

More difficult to bot on iOS? If they're worried that their verification process might have flaws and don't want thousands of fake accounts on day 1 and all the bad press, the cost…

It's normally much easier to buy e.g. a computer, a mattress, various household chemicals than to get rid of them properly. We need to tackle one or both sides of this equation, or…

Had a similar experience: I think regrettably if the timescale is this short, no-one knows who to talk to (from other teams/the proper managers the level above), there's some need …