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Brazil has juries.

I don't mean the MPF. Also the answer to your question is yes.

(c) "charged with" and "found guilty of" are vastly different things To be fair this is the most important comment in this thread. Greenwald was charged by a prosecutor who belongs…

He exposed evidence of criminal behavior by a judge that was trying to conceal his activities which are subject to public scrutiny via using his personal phone. What a judge does in the course of his …

Technical debt: the horrible metaphor meant to explain a project to non-technical people but that only technical people adopted. And then everybody needs a better metaphor to explain the bad metaphor …

How do I know your comment is legit if you didn't sign it? What is special about APIs?

"App stores" were run by telcos back then. Usually a storefront selling J2ME apps via WAP and charging money to your phone bill. To be fair the most popular content was ringtones (of the MID…

I'm a bit familiar with the sorts of commerce that the parent mentioned. Back when broadband was uncommon there were shops where you could just order anything that could be found on the Internet …

If Japan confiscated his passports he can probably just go to a consulate and get a new one.

The biggest red flag is that "climate change deniers" aren't a fringe group of meteorologists, but a group of politically-inclined people who also denounce "cultural Marxism" …

That is debug information. Just have it stored elsewhere (not on the binary you ship everywhere) and use that in conjunction with your core dump to debug.

The author's book, The Linux Programming Interface, is an amazing book and a new classic.

Not saying it's right but Canada had Trudeau I and II, the US had Bush I and II, and the Clinton and Kennedy families, so it's not like political dynasties aren't common in many countri…

Git repos are the only thing I use. I imagine there is a colossal overlap between "people who can use Keybase" and "people who use git". That said sharing files from the command li…

Is this fraud in India? I think most stock markets sell this as a service.

By the way, statistics as its own discipline is taught rather differently from the "here is a toolkit of magic tables and formulas and how to use it" method used when teaching it to non-stat…

The 80s were when we thought the US and the USSR would kill all of humankind with H-bombs. Blade Runner if what we thought the future would look like if we were lucky enough to have one. And this new …

And it's not like you can infer anything from an IQ test other than an IQ test result.

If anything they are as different as possible. And part of that was to avoid legal problems with BK.

I know at least one person in quantitative finance that is starting a greenfield project in Fortran. He says it works and has great performance, doesn't get in the way and appeals more to people …

Growing, stable or declining?

My very unofficial interpretation of hiring processes like that isn't that what's demanded is that people know algorithms from memory, it's that they are so familiar with algorithms tha…

Most tech-company engineers have exactly the same infrastructure at home as everybody else. Comcast and the like, also mad about data caps, latency and DNS hijacking.

That was indeed cool, but it also belongs to the "pet" phase of computing and this is the "cattle" age.

Most of the "hardware maintainance" is defragmenting the workload so that the VMs run in fewer physical machines to retire racks of old hardware. Some load balancing too.

Old school Unix people have been gatekeeping Unix since the 90s at least. Some still resent having a Unix that is available to anyone and runs on home computers.

They published "The Anatomy of Melancholy", which is a insanely long / funny / wild 17th century tract on (considerably more than just) depression.