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Depends on the state. The majority of states either have laws relating to disclosing known STDs or laws specifically about disclosing known HIV status, or both.

If you're building a native python application, there's no reason to adopt yet another technology. A native python app in "Docker/Containers" is going to look like a dockerfile tha…

displaying language is full of corner cases. imagine having to render both english, japanese, and arabic in the same code paths, and inline with each other text display code is not…

maybe future laws and policy will take into account the more-or-less finite supply of bitcoin. maybe. my point is that there is no guarantee that bitcoin will receive favorable dec…

"Especially important for finite supplies like Bitcoin" The law doesn't concern itself with the technical implementation of bitcoin. In addition, trackable and "tainted" money is d…

I would expect that apache and lighttpd are hosted in their respective projects; linux is used to run linux.com servers, etc.

If Google is using GCP internally, then their infrastructure is as you said. The GCP "best practices" sections in the docs* have been top tier in my experience and you can learn a …

People don't love XMPP for a lot of reasons. Some of those reasons apply to IoT. Some reasons, like having to maintain state, are IoT specific. Besides that, bandwidth and code com…

When the "good Desktop development framework" is primarily in javascript, it's a good signal.

Sometimes there's not something to fix or do, for example, in pthread-using code. "Just be really fucking careful or we'll all cry a lot."

As a developer, Electron's page shows their prowess in writing good front end code, which is really important. As someone who understands the basic concept of Electron, I want a pr…

More than once, cutesy comments of frustration have led me to inspect something for side effects and avoid them.

This begins to fall apart in major cities without OSM volunteers ingesting city roadwork feeds. Of course, something like tomtom wouldn't represent that ideally either without a ra…

Learn word. It's still best in class. Or LibreOffice. Depending on the type of manuscript, Dryad or celtx. Of course, I don't know your workflow.

It also means that they have trouble acquiring certain types of talent (reputation is free talent advertising). In addition, having a few world conquerers around helps bring talent…

In Steve Jobs' case, it was meant to instill confidence that he was in it for the long term - at the time, Apple was on death's doorstep. He also had enough cash in the bank prior …

Please put the install links at the top.

It's required for the proprietary camera algorithm software. The camera still works.

Unfortunately, it's not that simple. North Korea is under incredible sanctions, and South Korea's embracing of the free market is considered to be an economic miracle made possible…

This has been a known issue in xbox 360 hardware since about 2010. It just keeps popping up, someone finally thought to weaponize it.

I think it's absolutely unreasonable to imply that this was intentional. Besides the massive amount of complexity these systems have, there are plenty of "legitimate" places to hid…

I'm not sure how they could have come out of this cleanly other than waving a wand and not having it happen? They pretty clearly owned up.

Yeah, but those early WMP versions were just simple media players with really awful, clunky, slow syncing support. Microsoft took about 5 years to catch up, no small part due to US…

They say the design of the product, not the components are free, if we're going to be pedantic.