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Because the military doesn't have any assets to speak of. It's a government program funded each year by taxes. The social security program is separate from the federal budget [0], …

So exactly like the federal reserve or the social security administration buying US bonds then?

I just did this manually in protest.

I'm surprised (according to ctrl-f) no one has brought up Parallel Construction [1] I'm not sure what the benefit to society is, as you asked, but the benefit for law enforcement i…

> justice system is actively contributing to that Please help stop use of the phrase "justice system".

As near as I can tell from the wikipedia link in the comments below, it's because the ship is perpendicular to the water and the light just happens to be being refracted to that pa…

This. I've seen developers _think_ they lost code in Android Studio and spend hours trying to recreate it when it was in local history all along...

> A sports team has a play book, does your team? A sports team practices together, does your team? A sports team works as a unit, does your team? This is why I like XP. Their teams…

Wow, having different pages based on state seems to be such an amount of effort that it's basically an admission of fraud to have the other version: you must make enough money of n…

Seriously, reason from first principles. The incentives are the outcome. It was predicted in mainstream media (granted as a pessimistic joke): https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/simpsons…

It took me a while to get it, but this all works in the opposite direction as well. The time value of money can be negative: A dollar today can be worth more than a dollar tomorrow…

Yeah, I was. Multiple times. On this site in particular.

I just went there and it was 3.5 https://ibb.co/9pxhD4V

I had such a hard time cancelling The Economist last time, I joined their web chat to ask them if cancelling was as easy as signing up and if it was I would subscribe. Unfortunatel…

Okay, it's been a while, more data is available now, and I can provide a counter argument: This whole event was planned on social media in the open, and still that did not help any…

It's a skill and an art like anything else. I had to teach it before I was really well versed in it myself. I was skeptical , but now swear by it. Not like religiously... my pair f…

Compile time is great "getting to know you" time.

Yes, maybe this is just me, but every time I have an extended work from home period, depression follows after a few months. I was working around this once by drinking red bull, whi…

Yes, 100% this. When the virus isn't spiking in your area, I recommend meeting coworkers in coworking spaces. When it is spiking I've been going to parks to have beers with friends…

Though I definitely agree that bash's abbreviations are a barrier to entry, I think a bigger impediment not just with bash but many languages (say, Haskell) is ungooglable operator…

My previous comment was down-voted, perhaps because it was not a direct link. Trying again: This article explains why the first one was disabled [1]. This appears to be the new one…