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The stock was being held up by Version's offer. They've asked for a discount of 1B, and are considering backing out altogether. The stock will probably respond then. > "We're lo…

And a counterpoint http://www.npr.org/2016/04/04/473002208/facing-a-growing-rat... That example is why cats were domesticated in the first place. Not having a heal…

One of the things that has been only lightly touched upon: > ... and have them demoted and/or fired to minimize severance costs ... Tangential to this was the violation of the California and f…

CBC article I recall hearing a few years ago on that subject: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cricket-farmer-says-crop-cou... The ratio that they give is 2:1 for feed to &qu…

A lunar space elevator ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_space_elevator ) can be constructed out of kevlar today.…

Apple isn't forcing OEMs to include their bundled software. This reads very much like the EU vs. MS for the exact same reasons.

With a dozen exceptions for the diamond (elected) mods, all the moderators are from the community and got to that point with contributions. Nearly all of the are still contributing and moderate as par…

One must differentiate the SO core user group and SO the company that develops, hosts, and sells advertising.

Fragmentation of knowledge. The SO model tries to get the answers in one place so the people who search first find the answer in one place. If duos were open, the you'd have to look in all the pl…

Most questions don't get answers. The problem is not users giving excellent, well thought out answers so quickly a new user cannot find something to answer. There are 3M questions without any an…

That was examined in this post - http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/266844 Might be interesting to see more recent statistics, but it still gives an idea.…

Alas, all attempts at answering a question are deemed valuable by some contingent of the active user and diamond moderation base. Correct has nothing to do with it. There is no mechanism for removal …

So you want low rep users who don't understand the expected quality for the site to be answering questions while the high rep users who are familiar with the duplicates and expectations are preve…

That was the idea behind tag-wikis at one point ( see http://stackoverflow.com/tags/scala/info ) and was the utopian ideal of what Documentation would become. Organizational…

Looking at its history ( http://stackoverflow.com/posts/3326955/revisions ) one can see all of the closes and reopens. This question has not been closed. And it might have…

You may find A Group Is It's Own Worst Enemy an interesting read http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enem... - the things to design for and the thin…

In what ordering do you see this feature? Votes, active, or newest. Answers that have the same score are randomly ordered when sorting by votes.

If someone grabs the code to try to reproduce the error and gets unrelated sytanx errors, that's their time wasted. The comment about the error helps others from wasting their time too... until t…

Consider this on the "I keep finding closed and interesting questions on SO" - the "what is the best linter for PHP" or "What is your favorite cartoon" or "where is …

The Q&A format poorly handles the ever growing list of libraries that can do something. A wiki format is better for that. Maybe the documentation / examples that exists now. But sifting throu…

I suspect you've got Clarke and Asimov mixed up there. The article that you linked ( http://lakdiva.org/clarke/1945ww/ ) was written by Arthur C. Clarke. Clarke was a …

Which brings us to the http://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org ?

My preferred stats site has firmly switched to Tannenbaum (of Minix) and http://www.electoral-vote.com - 538 has felt more like horse racing for ESPN this past cycle than statistical analy…

Robert Forward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Forward In the preface to Timemaster (which features time travel and various paradoxical events), he states anyone who wis…

This is known as "bare branches" http://www.ejhs.org/volume15/Bare.html

And recently published Proxima about settlers on a planet around Proxima Cent. https://www.amazon.com/Proxima-Stephen-Baxter/dp/045146771X …

Considering where I was in college and my skills at teaching then (and even now to an extent - mentoring is another matter), I would be very concerned about me, or my peers back when I was in college …

Scrolling down to the partnerships, you find things like: > Institution: SUNY Empire State College (Saratoga Springs, New York) > Non-traditional provider: The Flatiron School > Quality assur…

Pulling up the community college for a midwestern state capital and a neighboring large city is fairly high up on the income disparity and segregation scales, I found that while the capital's com…