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I think you've been downvoted a bit hastily because you didn't agree to the "forced subsidy" that came in the form of taxes. One reply caricatured your stance as if you said you di…

tl;dr - profits from crypto investments seem to be taxed like other types of capital gains and inexperienced investors get burned because they don't know how taxes on investments/capital gai…

Is AP2 supposed to handle oncoming traffic safely (SAE level 3 I think)?

Good point - I hadn't thought of that and never read it in any safety blurb... seems to make reasonable sense though.

Remember that water heaters (if not tankless) are also an important supply of (drinking) water in case of emergency.

Here's a pricing example: https://www.keycdn.com/pricing

Firefox has a screenshot feature that I'd like to trigger from Selenium, which is by going through the "..." icon in the URL bar which opens up a menu with its last item being "Tak…

Just tried this - doesn't seem to work: - a lot of (visible) elements are missing - the screenshot is still cropped to whatever viewport is used

Is there a way to trigger a full screen screenshot via Selenium/WebDriver? (not a partial/window screenshot - that I can do)

You would still depend on the constant availability of an origin for your data. IPFS is not magic in that regard: if whoever is your origin disappears, then your data is likely to disappear at some po…

What are the alternatives?

Right, but when you want to publish something on the internet, wondering (and hoping) whether there is at least one copy out there in the ether is the last thing you want to have to worry about: your …

What is it about Yelp that makes you trust them?

I suspect they're doing that already. I don't think the bandwidth is an issue, unless they plan on reporting full frames of visual data (ie pixel maps) rather than vectorized or telemetry da…

What is the rationale for adding another rule to the tax game? It seems complicated enough already, and I thought we were trying to simplify it?

> It would be one thing to set quotas that favor a group, it's another to exclude any group at all. Any sufficiently low quota is equivalent to exclusion (ie a quota of 1 is pretty much like a…

> You obviously did, you just don't like it. Not really - It's just that I don't feel like I learned much: I already knew about the challenges he mentions. Whether I like it or not i…

I was a bit disappointed with the content of the article. On the style, the generalization "Only assholes get patents" turned me off quickly. But on the content itself, there wasn't muc…

In my experience the facilities to throw tasks into a scheduler that will run them in parallel was never the hard thing to accomplish (regardless of the language: some may have built-in capabilities, …

I think I understand that, but wouldn't you think that adding an "unknown fuzz" by sharing computation on 1-or-many threads makes it harder for an external party to do timing attack? Th…

I've heard this rationalization before, but I doubt it's a widespread practice in the pirates' world. Look, people are selling their soul to get "free products" (think about a…

Can you clarify what you mean? You seem to imply that using multiple threads is not a good idea, but then also express that not using multiple threads is also not a good idea. What's left?

I'm not a big fan of DRM and don't want to defend it, but your description is a bit incomplete. Those 10 determined people/pirates go off and put the cracked software (or the serials) u…

Whenever I would publish my app (or an update) on the Android Play Store, it seemed like it would be available almost immediately, which hints at the absence of review process. Also, I've never h…

> I can't really articulate it yet, but reading this article it occurs to me how really the old phone system didn't offer much more in the way of privacy (every phone call was recorded) C…

> More people complain about having it, but they don't need to go to the hospital over it. It seems that even the number of reports to the CDC (without hospitalization) has been decreasing aft…

I noticed a couple of strange things: - The chart shows a peak (10 out of 10,000 hospitalized) around Jan 2018 for this season, yet the tweet from the CDC below the chart, and dated Feb 6th claims tha…

How are you computing that? Perhaps you are forgetting that an investment still grows while you are withdrawing from it? Here is a calculator that helps you compute how much you can actually pull from…

Who is this Bay Area dentist?