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Those may be terrible variable names but they were understandable back in the 70s and 80s when disk space was at a premium and compilers only cared about the first 6 characters in a variable or function name. That's the downside of a 5
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My understanding is that the GPL only requires the source code to be made available on request for at least 3 years (or as long as you support the software, if more than 3 years). If you want to require people who want the source to write
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According to the article, whoever is behind this is using some web site that lets anybody with an email address spoof a US phone number to send fraudulent messages. The phone system badly needs to be upgraded so that people can't make
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The precise term would be the oligopolies.
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Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Remote: Yes (since March 2020), strongly preferred Willing to relocate: No (occasional travel fine) Technologies: JavaScript, GCP, C/C++, Java Résumé/CV: Available on request
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Raising the face value of the tickets would eliminate scalpers but at the expense of reputation. That's why Sony and Microsoft didn't just raise the cost of the PS5 and Xbox Series X during the 2 years or so when they were sold ou
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The main reason their stock has been doing well has been the role of Trump in driving hardcore blue party partisans into subscribing to paywalled media outlets like the NYT "to resist Trump". Until 2016/2017, pretty much all
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UFOs are likely either hallucinations or top secret experimental DoD projects. Some of them might also be spying devices from foreign governments like that suspected Chinese spy balloon that the government shot down earlier this year. I can
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I've only ever seen a McDonald's bathroom that requires a purchase in NYC around 15 years ago. I doubt that's changed in the years since unless the city made customers only bathrooms illegal.
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That actually exists. It's called Division 3 NCAA sports. There's no redshirting, no financial aid because you're good at sports and no making a profit from sports or paying coaches million dollar salaries in D3. The conferen
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I'm much less familiar with Eastern European history but that appears to be due to another wave of migration in early medieval Europe where Slavic peoples who originally lived further east moved into those areas after the Huns drove th
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If you're familiar with ancient and medieval European history, you're pretty much familiar with the origins of most of the European languages. Areas that were part of the Roman Empire generally speak Latin dialects like Spanish, F
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There's a reason why restaurants quickly returned to physical menus: most of their customers hated QR code menus and the restaurant business is extremely competitive so you have to be responsive to what customers want to stay in busine
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There's nothing wrong with stories, either in history or elsewhere. But good vs evil stories are bad history and almost always bad writing too. Reality is almost always either different shades of gray or blue and orange morality. If yo
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Displaying full home address is especially dangerous. There's a reason why people pay for WHOIS privacy services to keep that private. Crazy people will use that information to show up at your home and harass you or even commit violenc
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I think the right fix for subscriptions is probably to require an affirmative renewal rather than a passive renewal. Since customers are too lazy to affirmatively cancel subscriptions they aren't using, a passive renewal means they kee
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I think there's a good bit of truth to that. Even the platforms where self promotion is a rule violation such as Wikipedia and Reddit tend to be dominated by cliques of unpaid mods with an agenda either ideological or related to the in
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The argument that a law "would help workers more than help them" is a political argument not a legal argument. The legislature has the right to pass dumb laws so long as those laws are within their constitutional powers and do not
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Where the author made a mistake was in trying to make "what the market wants" rather than just making stuff he/she actually wanted to make and trying to see if it was possible to make money from it. If you try to make "w
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The thing that's really interesting to me is how "science" has arguably turned into what it was originally against. Originally, science outright rejected the ideas of specialization and credentialism. And it was founded on op
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Athletes (recruited by the sports teams), legacies (children of alums), Dean's interest list (relatives of donors) and children of faculty and staff.
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This happened because a few corporations were able to capture most of the internet due to a mix of laziness on the part of users and also the death of independent blogs and fan sites. I suspect that the independent internet died for pretty
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These self-driving taxis are basically just buses you can call to pick you up on demand. In areas where there's sufficient density, the most cost efficient option would probably be a self driving on demand bus. In principle, I think th
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This problem of decentralization was already solved by Usenet decades ago: your user ID is your email address and the various servers (Usenet instances) all mirror each other's posts. The problem with that was that email addresses are
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If Facebook's rules permit the posting of pictures of children then they are encouraging the practice. And governments are also responsible for permitting social media companies to allow such content to be posted publicly and permanent
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The problem there is that there's nothing stopping the crazy instance owner from retaliating by "defederating" your own instance and cutting you off from your network.
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TCM is one of the few cable channels that remains true to its original purpose. The "old movies channel" still shows old movies in an era where the "sports channel" is filled with sports-themed cable news style yelling m
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You could actually close the login thing by hitting the X button after login or register instead of actually logging in/signing up. Of course Twitter was counting on most people not knowing this.
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What I don't understand is why the Republicans don't just respond by supporting student debt cancellation combined with a tax on university endowments. The obstinate "pay back your debts" position is such an obvious poli
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I don't see what is "abusive" about sending media companies free traffic. There are millions, if not billions, of web sites on the internet that would be thrilled to be "abused" by Google and Facebook in this way. T

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