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I think you answered your own question didn't you? Those companies were 'bailed out'. The government didn't just wipe out their debts by fiat; it gave them money.

I found a slightly more comprehensible translation of that Vedic quote: Who knows from whence this great creation sprang? He from whom all this great creation came. Whether his wil…

You don't matriculate from an institution. I think you mean 'graduate'.

Do they say anywhere what exactly it means for a country to have 'net neutrality', 'safe harbours' etc?

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Nice writeup!

He says he studied engineering. But he didn't. He studied computer science. And therein lies the root of his confusion.

Sharmach! Pah! Everybody knows that it was Wang-Kleetch who solved the problem in 2094. The charlatan Sharmach merely read the pre-publication draft and claimed the work as his own…

Probably because the US has by far the most extensive surveillance satellite programme in the world. Not many countries operate surveillance sats at all. France has a few. Israel a…

Why must JavaScript watch videos?

It's not socialist at all unless people are being forced against their will (or perhaps 'regardless of their will' would be more accurate) to contribute to some common project. Nob…

Not at all, because there is no coercion.

Do we know approximately what the delay is?

Interesting. Thanks.

I wonder what's going on here: http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#17/-0.01296/51.49360/gray/bi... The location corresponds to a supermarket.

The original link now works. Sorry everybody!

Thanks! He says hi back. The real link is: https://timetric.com/about/careers/ but HN won't let me edit my post! Annoying.

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