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We currently get by with self-documenting code, google docs and mark down files, but are curious how other teams do this. Are there some fantastic tools we're missing out on?

You should be able to find a torrent file for whichever subset of wikipedia you need, which isn't too dated. There's even something like this, that lets you browse via bittorrent: …

Important note here is that it's primarily red and processed meat. I think fish and poultry are still considered healthy in moderate amounts.

It can still be competitive with things like tar-sand extraction, which takes more energy than you get out of the oil. It's only economically viable because energy in gasoline/oil …

This echoes the sentiment of Deep Work, which helped me a lot with my own productivity. If you can do 4 hours of productive work, truly, no distraction, deep productive work, then …

No doubt. It'd be incredibly expensive and risky, but with a huge potential pay-off.

A lot of heavy rare earth metals can only be found in very limited concentrations in the earth's crust, with the largest concentrations all being from asteroid impacts. As a conseq…

The amount of transactions is much higher, but the amount of money being moved is much lower. The highest number I could find for yearly transaction amount in mPesa was 3.7 Trillio…

A digital, decentralized currency. If you want to solve the double-spend problem, you need some kind of economically incentivized block inclusion lottery.

Coded communication is nothing new between criminals, and weakening the security/privacy of Australian software is not going to solve this problem. Weakening encryption of Australi…

Of course having access to the private key, need to be the most basic way to access funds. It's the only thing that's guaranteed to be uncensorable, while minimizing the requiremen…

Most of the world's population lives in third and second world countries. You're absolutely right that the centralized fiat gateways are the obvious, censurable bottlenecks of cryp…

Danish university student here. In the course I'm currently taking, they've made a point of stressing the importance of not rolling your own crypto, along with using salts, and hav…

Realities get murky when you talk geo-politics. Some times it's in the interest of the US, to protect the self-determination of a nation, especially when it goes against the intere…

IANAL, but you should own the copyright on all the software you wrote unpaid, as well as the derivative copyright of everything that is based off of your initial software, which so…

IANAL but my father is. This is exactly the advice he gave me in a similar situation. OP is the legal owner of the IP, if he was never given compensation, or signed away the rights…

The US has never signed the Ottawa treaty, banning the use of land mines. The US do however claim to abide by it, outside of the Korean peninsula. The US never signed the treaty on…

A strong AI which limits itself to one machine, isn't very strong at all.

What are your opinion on the centralization concern? It seems like the dPoS consensus algorithm is inherently more centralized than PoW or regular PoS. Would love to hear your thou…

The chance that someone would send him money a second time is very small, and the act of terrorism comes with risk of getting caught. If the extortionist is in it for the money, it…

The Copenhagen metro is fully automated, but it was built like that from the start. This means that there's no metro driver unions, and the metro stations were built in a way, wher…

Could it be argued that crypto has intrinsic value in it's ability to hide from these tax liabilities? I've seen Bitcoin, and other crypto-currencies, compared to the off-shore tax…

Capital begets capital. The choice of consensus algorithm doesn't matter, as long as the system follows some kind of capitalistic economic model.

What do you think is the best way for society to provide capital to people who need it? I'm genuinely curious. Peer-to-peer lending is interesting, but I'm not sure it's competitiv…

Proof of work was the first, crude consensus algorithm for crypto-currencies. A lot of more eco-friendly consensus algorithms have been proposed. Ethereum, the second largest crypt…