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A vital difference is that companies do not have a sapient capacity for emotion and empathy.

But that is not moral, is it? The company is still not beholden to a willful idea of morality, but rather sociopathically concerned with appearance. For companies where this matter…

I agree that a corporation can make what would be perceived as moral actions, exactly due to the human staff running it, but that does not erase that morals does not factor into th…

Corporations, at least the for-profit ones, are principally amoral legal constructs, which I find all the more terrifying than the notion that they could be evil. Insomuch as they …

Okay.

It is an interest idea and a great starter for philosophical thinking, but no-one is treating it like literal gospel.

We could do so at any time if the community decided it was for the better. Linux being open source means anyone can fork it if needed be. China is setting the stage for an actual d…

I imagine you could still update with some wench-work. An EOL date of 6.5 sounds to me like a way to say that "beyond this point we will stop testing and ensuring compliance, and t…

"Most of the time"? Citation needed. While I generally agree with the sentiment of "do more by coding less", and minimalist user interfaces, there are plenty of cases where you thr…

6.5 years for most devices, 5 years for some legacy cases, and it is a soft limit ie. they don't automatically enter EOL, they just stop guaranteeing the updates. Source: https://s…

While I accept that my description of JS et. al. might be contentious, I don't see that you have argued against my piece on the WWW in general. Regarding latency and responsiveness…

Yet each of those steps solved a different problem. Early computers did not have the local processing power needed to run heavy jobs. Early PCs did not have the storage. WWW solved…

Wanting not to be discriminated against / handled separately != wanting special treatment. It is quite the opposite, in fact. The only people who consider that an entitled position…

Store credential information where it is used. It is not used by the repository, so it is an improper location for it. If someone gains access to a system that uses the credentials…

Thank you for the insight. It is one thing what holds in theory, and quite another what happens in reality, as you point out.

I admit to be completely out of my depth, but my understanding is that it is a fiduciary duty of the directors to act in the best interest of the shareholders. Tax planning is a hu…

IANAL but it is my understanding that if those tax reduction schemes are legal many companies are legally bound by their stock holders to exploit them, or else be found negligent i…

Won't help. It gets the information from the telco provider, and does not require GPS or any other fancy hardware.

That's a lot of maybes to support an already unlikely scenario.

multi-select is by no means an ST invention.

It never did. A concurrent program has always meant a decomposition of a program into parts that can be executed out-of-order while maintaining the same output. Whether or not this…

To be frank most of my experience with concurrency (rather than parallelism) is from formal theory taught during my masters studies. But I was rusty, so I was unsure if I remembere…

Ah. I have a misunderstanding of definition then, since when I think of concurrency I think of interleaved execution irrespective of whether or not this execution is done in parall…

What do you mean by JavaScript not supporting concurrency? Do you mean parallelism?

Any situation where a password is persisted, especially in plaintext, can present a security risk. It is one of those things where you don't just guess that it is "safe enough" unl…