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Interesting PoC, but does it solve a real world problem? If I had to reinvent the shell by breaking backward compatibility, I would do a statistical study using all the shell scripts publicly available on GitHub, a survey about the critics
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> "Politics is an organizational problem, not a technological one." Conway's theorem : "Any organization that designs a system (defined more broadly here than just information systems) will inevitably produce a design
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For people who cannot open Reddit on mobile : "if you take the last character from each part, top to bottom, left to right: 因果由國容港治己義憤民誠 - Cause and effect came from (or depends on) the country, allow Hong Kong govern itself, righteo
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In addition to the applications : The same way a developer learns from SonarQube outputs and write better code, it would allow to create automated and interactive teaching tools to write contents in specific writing styles.
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Is there a CWE database for natural language?
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I agree. Furthermore, it feels like creating and maintaining a Debian package becomes redundant with various git/docker/pip/maven repositories and tools. Half of the package management problems are social issues such as secur
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I quickly looked at pyre and pytype. I wonder : is there a static analyzer for Python that can check for termination guarantee in small snippets of code? The idea is to have a "safe" and "unsafe" Python (ala Rust) accord
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Your sentence seems to insist on "billions", but it's not that much in regard to all the invested money in the world. According to UNESCO ( http://uis.unesco.org/apps/visualisations/research-and-devel
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Maybe they are investing in user habits, branding and data , such as : where are the consumers, where are the most wanted food, how frequent is it, at what time, etc. $544m are invested to grow the data machine. Uber uses the current fleet
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> once company took off, they had to "share the technology" with some state companies that then produced the same thing cheaper and knocked the original company out. Without knowing the details, this sounds more efficient and p
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What if multiplayer video games actually teach your kids to not blindly trust people ? At first they will be scammed a few time, but they will learn, and with minimal consequences. Isn't it better for your kids to experience the "
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The message from your mom is private and isn't supposed to be read by Verizon for Verizon to provide its service. If you don't want your mom to send PII about you to other people without your consent, and it incurs damage, you can
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> Should Pastebin be allowed to exist? Yes, because as far as I know, Pastebin doesn't process sent data to provide its service. They just store it, they could simply store it encrypted and say they can't access data. On the ot
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Per EU's GDPR, and maybe the future California Consumer Privacy Act, yes : GitHub should do everything they can to preserve people's privacy. Including maybe flagging and reviewing projects which process PII. GitHub is popular eno
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According to gunviolencearchive ( https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/ ), there were 251 mass shootings in the USA since the beginning of 2019. I don't know if this number is correct, but I just can't understand why
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Detecting plain SSN numbers wouldn't be difficult with a combination of regex, machine learning and human verification. Even if hackers could just encode the SSN numbers, it would at least mitigate the spreading of PII. Edit : I don&#x
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Does anyone know how is Haskell funded? I sent an email to the "committee" to know more about financial and legal information about Haskell, which should be a non-profit organization I believe, but had no response so far.
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You would first try to understand why it didn't work, then judge afterward. The party or president you will vote for won't change everything overnight. The president decides about a direction to take, and the administrative and le
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> Allowing a system like this to be implemented under the guise of 'full transparency' is like a political trojan horse. All it takes is a loss of priority in that objective by the same or subsequent administration I didn'
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I can think of a system : at the next election, vote for a president with a program about systemic transparency and openness for all the agencies and organizations.
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You have good points. I would add : constantly have to watch your steps to make sure you dont walk on some animal poop, or some angry bee/hornet that was just lying there
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Your claims are lacking sources and evidences. If you own the reserve, everything is fine as long as your reserve is not empty or has still value to some people. If you are an hardware supplier, there can be a way to repurpose parts of the
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Does "taking a bath" in English include showering? I didn't take a bath for at least a year, only showers and quickly washing my armpits with soap in washhand basin
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Sure 22 000m3 isn't that big, but the rate could increase sharply (currently new 34 000m3 of high and intermediate waste produced per year according to the article). The question is : should we invest and build 10 times more nuclear
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If actors are humans, then sure. But if actors are rational computers, and it's used billions time a day, you might prefer optimality. Not saying this would be useful for communication between computers, but coming from CS degree, I ha
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I would believe Generics are highly reusable code, you shouldn't have to write and read them often. The verbosity you lost in those few lines are earned every time another piece of code use them. Also you cannot just criticize without
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I have knowledge in Python and never developed in Go, so I can't comment the Design choices. On the form, in my humble opinion, the PEP style is easier to read : presenting rational and constraints before the proposed solution. It woul
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Stop me if I'm wrong, but there is technically nothing blocking AWS to have the same management in EC2. Scaling docker containers is the same allocation problem than scaling VMs, so it could be done with EC2 too. Maybe AWS spins up an
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You both have good arguments, but I would tend to agree with lone_haxx0r, even if his idea is maybe not practical. He is comparing sending IP messages to freedom of speech. The debate is : are you for full freedom of speech or not? In many
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I guess git hosting is already available on IPFS. Anyway, hosting is not allowed/feasible on 4G (maybe also won't be allowed on 5G?), which is what everyone has. The software stack isn't the issue, and smartphones are powerfu

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