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You're confusing a single wiretap warrant that was a small part of a large investigation with the investigation itself.

> Groups of people don't have guilt or automatic responsibility, only individuals do. This is not exactly correct. Governments are composed of groups of people and governments main…

> Black Americans were quite clearly discriminated against as a group. This is clearly true, but it also reduces the impact of what really happened. Black Americans were discrimina…

I've done many database migrations from db2 to MySQL. It's a thing that happens quite a lot. ORMs and Java's usage of database access layers over the underlying sql drivers vastly …

If misleading statements was the problem, then people would be a lot angrier about the blatant lies and propaganda large oil companies pushed for decades. Dishonesty is the problem…

Except the whole pregnancy scenario is incredibly common example of a social faux pas.

I was lead on migrating several systems from traditional deployment to a cloud provider for a major company. Part of the migration was switching a microsoft DB to MySQL. The java e…

What is often missed is that chimeric viruses are easy to detect. The viral genome will show clear evidence of manipulation from random base insertions and clear homology with all …

According to the article, the desired outcome of the election was a free and fair election. Not a particularly terrifying conspiracy.

I'm concerned that you've selectively ignored parts of my comment and have read meaning out of it that I did not put into it. >do you have any justification for why obsessing over …

Most of the public discourse on the current problems of capitalism is not serious. Many folks aren't actually comparing capitalism to an alternative, instead they're comparing thei…

First, the same problem applies to service names like "Galactus" or "Buttforce". Second, a descriptive name is not the same thing as a service description. A descriptive name or la…

After the 10th sms service I'd be curious to know why people have done the same thing ten times. If there is a real difference in functionality between those ten services, I suppos…

Amazon's contract says something similar. A court case might be difficult to win if your project is very close to your work projects, but other than that, a company generally has t…

I'm on the record as defending MOND from dismissal, but this article is taking it a step to far and ignoring important context. It's true that MOND generally does provide a simpler…

Interesting article, but I feel like this article is built around assumptions of similarity that I don't feel really hold up. Take this quote for instance: > "We miscalculate the e…

Only by some measures and only with the caveat that the methods used to approximate wealth distribution in pre-revolutionary France are not directly analogous to the methods used t…

The process for rolling out breaking API changes is the same for monorepos as it is for multi-repos since, during a deploy, multiple versions of each service will be running simult…

Really excellent point. Transitioning to a capitalist system is extremely difficult because other economic and political systems almost always have much more extreme imbalances in …

> The "burden of proof" is on both sides. This is a common refrain from folks, who either accidentally or on purpose, are attempting to throw up barriers to have their beliefs genu…

I wrote a short story on this idea a while ago. Two things become clear very quickly. First, this is a very stark existence. Advanced civilization requires lots of energy and energ…

I've had meta and microsoft cancel on me. I also went all the way through the interview loop at one company, received very positive feedback but was told that they had decided to c…

Echoing the other, how did you configure your test suite to check for correctness?

One of the best programming aphorisms I've heard is "Everything in programming can be solved with another layer of abstraction except for the problem of to many layers of abstracti…

I don't think Intuit's total revenue is relevant to this discussion. The most relevant number is how much money did they make off this little scheme which seems to be much less tha…