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"Beyond immoral" seems to me somewhere between excessive and totally wrongheaded.

Bad advice has consequences and bad legal advice often doubly so. The law is nuanced, convoluted and often unintuitive. People really are better off going to an expert!

Something like "well then why not? Shouldn't you make the little moments memorable, joyful ones?" presumably

He thinks that the majority reached the right conclusion (the result - that the defendants were entitled to the money) but not for the right reason (the particular argument that the majority opinion made)

Deep Space 9 has an arc where a Starfleet officer attempts to launch a coup against the (elected) President of the Federation - we do see an elected leader there, but you're right that it isn't spelled out in much detail.

Yes, slower. 24x faster would be a miracle!

It's possible that you'll design a safe that the government cannot get into without destroying the contents. We say that the government can do their best to get into that safe if they have a warrant.

There is no requirement that they be able to access the content (building the safe is not illegal), but there is a procedure that lets them try under appropriate conditions. What the parent posters have been talking about is a permission structure like that where law enforcement can try their best. Doesn't force anyone to write software in a particular way.

In retrospect the fact that the cable is responsible for making headphones fall out makes so much sense, and I've even experienced it while running, but I hadn't thought of it. Thank you!

I don't think I'm alone in that though, which is great for Apple: if they're working better than expected, then consumers will love it. Expectations are everything.

I think the problem here is more nuanced. The first, cold fusion claim that they made belongs in the almost-certainly-false bucket; the many critiques of the work were decisive and clear. I'm not qualified to assess the merits of this new claim, but putting it in the we-dont-really-know bucket seems appropriate. The issue wasn't a rush to bucket, but not realizing that there was a second claim that needed bucketing.

Texting also became more common with the widespread adoption of smartphones - we'd of course see more accidents as a result, but the medium became massively more useful to a lot more people.

There most certainly is. You've pointed out some exceptions but do you really think that on the whole they're not correlated? Having more money means people can afford to dress better and are more likely to travel in circles in which dressing well is important.

This may be a bad thing, but it's a reality that people are attuned to - it's a useful heuristic even though it's imperfect. Should you treat people badly because of it? No, but you shouldn't treat them badly even if you were 100% sure they weren't wealthy. That's a separate problem.

It's not as surprising as you'd think. The basic problem is energy density and availability.

Human beings don't directly photosynthesize for clear reasons. Solar power isn't available constantly and is too diffuse to power us in real-time. Instead, we eat plants (or animals, which is just another layer of indirection) that have photosynthesized over time and stored up that energy - we then convert that energy so we can metabolize it as needed.

The same thing is happening with petroleum. It's denser and more flexible than the sun. These are real constraints that have led us to use these sources of energy and prioritize them. They're not insurmountable - I think as prices fall we'll see more research into storage, I believe panel efficiency is going up - but the path of least resistance is a powerful force.

Perhaps it's not their fault but it doesn't make it any better for a prospective job hunter. Perhaps competitive salaries need to be part of this push

I'm an iPhone user myself but I understand this impulse. Having safety and compatibility sorted out for you really is an important time-saver and convenience. However, when you want to do something that isn't part of the manufacturer's plan there's only one way to go. I probably wouldn't sideload many apps, but when there's one app that makes my life easier and app store rules prohibit it, I'd really appreciate the flexibility.

Long story short: just because you can doesn't mean you must. Options are nice but so is not having to think about it. The Nexus is a middle ground for Android

It's possible that it's more acute for him because he's not used to it, the same way someone who's lived at high altitude for years doesn't feel out of breath. Most people, I think, are affected by the presence of sad people in some way - we can control or get used to it but the raw material is still there.

This is interesting. Could you (or someone else whose had this experience) elaborate?

To be honest I expected a bit more. If not more endorsement of Apple, some more, well, opinion. This read like a news piece with the word "persuasively" as the only bit of subjectivity. It's an odd piece overall.

How so? It seemed completely fair to me - yes, he pushed the staffer a bit but would there have been a point to the interview if he hadn't?

I'm not quite sure if I believe the Sanders campaign story, but that seems independent from the quality of the interview; even if you do, it shouldn't be a bad thing to ask more questions of individuals involved.

I'm not quite sure this gets to the heart of what OP meant. In tech, MIT is probably better than (or at least as good as) most Ivies.

A 17th century writer. More importantly, a poet.

Not sure how I feel about the point of the article, but this sheds no light on it - Donne's work is pretty different from modern prose. Different best practices apply.

Not really. Think what you will of the merits of the article, but it makes specific reference in the opening sentence to the fact that "digital native has been used to refer to a member of the younger generation weaned on the web and immersed in the language of digital technology," and the example it signifies is an employer ignoring older applicants because of their age rather than their skillsets.

I'm not sure how I feel about the issue, but it seems fairly appropriately titled and asking a narrow question. If I clicked on an article with the title you suggest, I'd expect a discussion of broader issues – manual labor's physical requirements as job criteria, for example.

I could be wrong, but I understood this to be a way of getting yourself in the door. Bonds created by the "indebtedness" are I think starting points to spending time with people and getting to know them, rather than a friendship in and of themselves.

I understood that to mean he'd forgotten about the company until the remote-working ban controversy brought it back into the spotlight, not that he's boycotting Yahoo on the basis of its remote-working policy

Do you have a source for number 3 (warrant to arrest the Chief Justice)? It's not that I don't believe you, it's just the kind of think I'm interested in reading about.

No, exchange still means what you think it means. The issue they had is that a bunch of orders got stuck in a queue somewhere and thus couldn't actually be exchanged. This is all a question of how you deal with that. NASDAQ decided not to just cancel the orders or execute them later but to provide them the trade they "deserved"

Personally, I think that was the right decision, but it's your call.

My understanding is that they don't usually end up with stocks, but their handling of this specific situation created what amounted to a short position.

Essentially, the bug (whatever you want to call it is irrelevant from the financial angle) meant a bunch of people wanted to sell facebook stock and were unable to do it. They said that they were willing to sell at the current going rate, which was $42.

NASDAQ was unable to process the orders, so they weren't able to process the sales. The resolution they settled on was essentially becoming the other party to the transaction: they would provide the FB shares to the (possibly disgruntled) customers at the same price - as if nothing had gone wrong.

But, as this is happening, NASDAQ doesn't actually have FB stock - they have to buy it on the market later. Like a normal short, they benefit if the price goes down since they have to spend less to get back the shares. For example, if FB went down $2, NASDAQ only has to pay $40 for the share, and they make a $2 profit.

This is all a long-winded way of saying they didn't have a short in the traditional sense, and in normal cases this doesn't happen, but it happened as a result of this screwup.

I don't think this comment makes much sense. If the original name was not political, then the change should be apolitical too. If the choice of text on the .ps page was a "political issue," then google's use of "Palestinian Territories" was already political in a pro-Israeli way – changing it is no worse than keeping up the old text.

Yes, I know you're jumping on the "corporations have too much power" bandwagon, but here I don't think it makes any sense.

I think this is pretty cool, but if you play it, you'll immediately realize that the physics are off (compare left/right motion with up/down/gravity) Is this just a basic problem with JS games, or a result of the compact implementation?

I don't think it does. It mimics the look of the iOS "switches" which are universally used for on/off commands

My assumption would be that he's hellbanned

Honestly, the ars summary. Make of that what you will.