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> The idea that living things, which are far more intricately organized at every level than any machine we have made, could have arisen by some unknown series of chance steps is a …

Like the government doesn’t already have that power?

Same reason you can look at a sunset but not the noonday sun

For reference the quote is “ During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”

Dude, are you okay?

That summary makes the point but doesn’t communicate the meaning

If you just want to use LC connectors everywhere, they’re the same price. Plus single mode fiber has the advantage that there’s only two kinds and we really only use one of them. T…

And companies using the many individuals to magnify their leverage.

This is a collectible market so Lego sets aren’t fungible, so being unable to keep track of that sounds like negligence.

Macs originally didn’t have filename extensions because the file type was stored as metadata in the file system

You’re still anthropomorphizing. They’re not communicating, you’re just being observant.

I’d expect the greater length of the encrypted data (which should look random) vs the structured header/footer to rapidly push the Shannon entropy to the maximum

I wonder if this has to do with the massive number of google calendar invites I’ve been getting as payment/billing notifications lately. I’ve not been reporting them because I alre…

But his emails!

Which case decided that?

Of course you don’t, because it’s not the EULA that enforces the copyright. Copyright law is what enforces the EULA. It’s right there in the fact it’s a Licensing Agreement.

> I'm pretty sure the company you work for owns your work chat, and that what you say on company slack constitutes business information. That’s not a valid argument. The company it…

This post is a prime example of why the Pope said what he did.

Because Apple been continuously doing deprecating hardware regularly since the mid 90s. And they’ll processor architecture every 10-15 years. Microsoft was the backward compatibili…

Scraping for search engines is different. They need to scrape the data to build the index, otherwise the search wouldn’t work.

Why would I be, when I don’t have any standard for comparison. How many human drivers did similar because the power went out?

Except that sometimes you can’t. I don’t know if the Unifi router checks for this, but I’ve run into more than one network where the VPN conflicted with either the captive portal o…

Kinda weird you had to bring Stripe developers up where there’s pacemaker, and insulin pump, and ventilator developers.

Not really sure this analogy works since the usability of my house and everything in it is unrelated to having them. The house keys only make getting into my house easier.