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Switch to not using Captchas I'd say. Technology can already beat them a solid percentage of the time, so they're becoming just an obsolete tool for blocking obsolete attacks. With…

There's information on his Swiss PhD program in the article. The Swiss University advised him to de-register so he could maintain years of eligibility or whatever, and the Swiss ad…

Well if businesses are clustered together for the convenience of drivers, it will also be especially easy to access for the people living close enough to walk. But the math may hol…

What if you live in another town and are paying for that fire department? Just kidding. But really if you live in a country which has a tax treaties with the US, you also can offse…

Kept all what benefits? People who fled the US are now living under some other country's benefits, and pay taxes there instead. Don't citizens of (almost) every other country in th…

ABET accreditation (not as important in CS as engineering, but still very common) requires a CS program to teach software development and strong programming skills. Training for pr…

Well if you enter as a legal visitor through a border checkpoint you give the govt the opportunity to do security checks, restrict import of various things, charge customs taxes. P…

No relocation assistance means no guilt when you switch to another job in under a year. Or at least less, if you got a signing bonus too.

I thought the US was somewhat unusual in its lax treatment of illegal immigration. However lying to or sneaking past border officials to enter a country is literally a crime yes (c…

Society has moved beyond possibility/impossibility (i.e. behaviors prohibited by law and lack of opportunity) and we've moved on to decrying the emotional difficulty in doing thing…

It is confusing. There's also Family Dollar. I was a bit glad they combined them because I never remember which is which, but it probably does hurt their generalizations. Also, in …

I think people can still find it off-putting that after all the evidence they provided you to get to that point, you're challenging them to prove they aren't complete frauds. Like …

Well there might be a defense of that one. "Data-oriented programming" (to distinguish from object-oriented) is largely C-style C++ that is written for performance rather than reus…

While we're dreaming, the ultimate solution is an artificially intelligent agent that stands between you and the internet and can be instructed to pick out what you like and show i…

I think you're taking for granted all the benefits to society provided by those profit-seeking public companies. The baseline is all of us starving to death with no possessions or …

This is basically the innovator's dilemma. A large market position (not really anything related to monopoly power per se) leads companies to be very risk-averse since they can alwa…

Sure compared to those same scientists and engineers doing subsistence farming or something as an alternative. But compared to working elsewhere in society as scientists and engine…

There's still the guilt when you have to tell the movers that this big stack of boxes is filled with heavy books. I get rid of any book that can be found used for under a couple bu…

I don't know that the lack of this particular feature is contrived to make matches more entertaining for the fans.

I don't know, it's a sport that's supposed to test athletes against each other in certain skill sets. Finding ways to win with less exertion and less athletic (i.e., less risky) mo…

I think they're just adding the minimum amount to prevent the minutes expiring and the phone subsequently being cancelled, which I assume happens after 3 months. They would still h…

> The issue here is that the school is teaching not general knowledge, but knowledge that is only useful in the Amazon context. The public high school in California? They might add…

Imagine the climate change problems if we used up too much gravitational energy from the solar system.