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Except when you contribute to open-source, you typically have a legal document (the licence) that explains how the exposure will be paid.

Tools are created to reduce the amount of time one spends on a task. The greater the ratio between benefit and effort the better a tool is. If a tool requires the "barest minimum of effort" …

As someone else who is currently into debate, I'll probably use this for flowing in the near-future. It's interesting that most people view debate as "who can make flashier speeches?&qu…

Yep. That's why there are multiple distributions of the Linux Distribution Chooser. https://distrochooser.de/ https://distrochooser.snehit.dev/ https:/…

One of the things about evaluating the cost-effectiveness of a safety feature is that there's implicitly a monetary value assigned to human life, when you know the probability of something saving…

That's one of the problems with a 100% free market. There's an implicit assumption that everyone is a perfectly rational economic actor that understands what goes into lightbulb durability. …

I spoke with an Uber driver about this recently, and one of Uber's barriers to entry is their phenomenal data on roads. As an example, they know for every apartment complex, where you'd driv…

Other criminals can teach him how to not get caught or recruit him into larger organizations. Prison is like a startup incubator for gangs. When you put a bunch of people with similar interests in one…

> Prison isn't primarily meant to rehabilitate; you are almost certainly right that it will do the exact opposite in this case. Prisons are meant for rehabilitation in Finland, where the case …

Let's just assume the facts are as he says in the most charitable interpretation. You either have a 1.25% chance of a $1 billion company and a 98.75% chance of a $0 billion company. The expected …

You can donate to non-profit museums or art galleries where you live, and they will use that money to fund artists. edit: or you can donate to a non-profit newspaper, or think tank, or any other type …

> It makes me wonder if a sort of "basic income for Internet creators" would work. Instead of individuals trying to optimize their content for maximum income, it would instead work like t…

Even assuming this is technically feasible (a premise others don't believe), it is ethically wrong to cut off an entire country from the Internet because a small portion of the population are com…

This is a conclusory argument since it doesn't explain why this particular alleged act of selling video game saves is illegal. https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/85973…

If it was easy, everyone could do it and get rich. (this is applicable to most questions about why business processes suck)

It's not the same as traditional card skimming since you can clone the magnetic stripe you skimmed onto another card and buy things with it. If you grab data from a tap transaction, you can'…

If I could I'd delete my original comment since I did more research and you're right. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14861908/apdu-command-to... …

They do, but you can't get the card number from reading the chip. The protocol is a challenge-response one based on a private key stored within the chip. https://en.wikipedia.org/…

I'm in Canada and I can literally just tap the card itself on the reader. Every card has this ability and it can't be skimmed.

The way I see it, Kagi can save me half an hour of searching in a month. Given that it's $10/month for unlimited, I need to make $20/h to break even. If I make more than that, the value…

That's why they have like 1000 job postings in a market where nobody is hiring. I keep trying to convince people I know to apply, but they think they're not good enough for some reason.

> What they need to do is fix the stability of their drivers, make their stuff work on every GPU they sell or have sold in the past few years (as CUDA always has), and pay employees to integrate su…

It didn't; there are still many roles for skilled assembly programmers in performance-critical or embedded systems. It's just their market share in the overall world of programming has decre…

Well what'll end up happening is you will use the army to control territory and extort regular tribute from farmers in exchange for you protecting them from other raiders + you not taking their s…

If you're ultra-wealthy and want to survive the apocalypse while keeping your status, it's probably better to stockpile loyalty rather than gas-guzzling SUVs in a world where the oil refiner…

Speaking as someone who's been on there for years, the process is about as fair and transparent as it can be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD,_revert,_discus... …

> Within weeks of the theft starting, prosecutors say, Ding was offered the position of chief technology officer at an early-stage technology company in China that touted its use of AI technology a…

I'm typing this on my Microsoft Surface Duo 2. It's the best phone I've ever had for actual work. It's not all your describing, but the fact you don't know about it goes to sh…

When there's a big power imbalance, putting the onus on the service provider to give a valid reason for denying customers can be more impactful than laying the burden on a user to prove there was…

You can't regulate away the physical cost of building millions of miles of fibre optics cables or a trillion dollar semiconductor fabrication plant. There are many barriers to entry that aren…