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Apparently, "Copy To" no longer works on Windows 7 and higher. The button is greyed out for all user profiles except the "Default" profile. https://social.technet.microsoft.com/For…

Already in 2015, Emily Taylor warned [1] that ICANN could become the Internet's FIFA -- a small organization with great power that doesn't answer to any government. Here we are. A …

Sign a letter to Internet Society here: https://savedotorg.org/ Write to news outlets. If this blows up in the mainstream media, public pressure may be too high for them to go ahea…

For my small wiki, refusing all submissions with external links eliminated virtually all spam. Yes, it's drastic, but in my case external links were not essential. I still use ReCa…

I guess so, but when you use energy instead of pressure, and a linear scale rather than logarithmic, it makes the results look more impressive.

Agreed – looks like a fantastic product! Seconding the question about MySQL support. I use MySQL for everything. I don't want to add extra gigs of RAM to my VPS just to run an inst…

There's economic research that shows it's more efficient to regulate (in some sense, "blame") the lenders, because borrowers are often desperate. When you're desperate, you have re…

In your experience, can a tick attach to you if you just brush against it while moving fast (running or cycling)? They're rather slow-moving, so I thought they can't latch onto you…

My mom's pension is $400 / month (Eastern Europe). She browses the Internet on an old hand-me-down Thinkpad. I suppose she should just get off the Internet if she cannot afford to …

Nice, simple, intuitive proofs. Very cool.

The US had had ballistic missiles (Redstone) in European airbases since 1958 -- Kennedy simply continued the existing policy of the US. Kennedy's poor judgment, arguably, consisted…

They also fixed the 6-key block (the one with Home, End, etc.). The older version had a nonstandard layout. On the minus side, it has a non-detachable numpad, so you'll have to rea…

FWIW, I've done in-home trials of several chairs. Many dealers of high-end chairs will let you do that (at least here in Poland). Sometimes I've had to leave a deposit. I'm amazed …

I agree that sticking it out can sometimes help. The Embody is very punishing if you slouch (the hard sacral part will just dig into your spine), so the first step would be to make…

I agree. The Embody is a great chair if you have pretty good posture. It is pretty rigid in the center (all the flexibility is on the sides), so that it forces your back into the '…

Depends on which is preferable to you: - a smaller US economy that's 100% owned by Americans - an economy that's larger (potentially more than 2x), but is 50% owned by foreigners

That's true, in his example he makes a point of stressing that the foreign value is consumed rather than invested. But it's not clear that that's what happens in real life. For exa…

That's a very well-written and clearly argued piece, but you could apply the same logic to argue that it's a business should not raise capital on the stock market because it amount…

You seem to assume that there are only 2 kinds of software: "fun experiments" and made-to-order business software. What about mass-market software that's not so fun to write? Who's…

Making a work of art takes a lot of discipline and, often, drudgery. There are many tasks which are not enjoyable in the least bit. There's burnout, depression, writer's block. Man…

People do want new art. Just look at the most torrented works of art -- far more people download Game of Thrones than I Love Lucy. One major reason is that societies change and tod…