It means....there will be a large political body interested in using the NSA hooks in OSS (assuming they really have them, which is a big if).

Good question, I only assumed so because all the news sources seem to think so. I don't care enough about the topic to actually verify it, though (and it sounds like, frankly, you don't either).

Here is her motivation, she says, "as much as I've been investigated and all that, why would I want to do email?" So her intention for using a private email server from the beginning was to hide potential scandals.

Not only was keeping a private email server against the law, when asked to turn over the emails, she printed them out on paper, 55,000 pages of paper. What motive would she have for doing that, other than to make any investigation harder?

Think about whether you want police officers to wear cameras, and why you want them to wear cameras. It is because we don't trust them, and for good reason. Well, you shouldn't trust public officials either, even if they are on 'your team.'

Which 'smart person' are you talking about?

Then you're talking about the quality of the API, not the quality of the code. If for some reason you became a maintainer, then you would care quite a bit about being able to read the code.

Well, you are Doctor Evil.

Of all the problems you might find at arXiv, I don't think "auto-generated papers going undetected" is one of their problems.

ArXiv's problem is recognizing when human-written, realistic sounding papers are actually BS.

No it doesn't. Non-competes limit your ability to make a living. People are more important than corporations.

I notice you didn't name any instances.

You are right, but they are used for that..

A company should keep its employees by paying well, and by making it a good place to work. If the only way you can keep employees is by making them sign non-competes, then your company is a lousy company to begin with, and the world would be made better by having someone compete with it.

Nope. I read your whole post several times. Your problem is you are unable to sense the tone of the things you write yourself, but that's a common problem. It's not about comprehension because tone is independent from accuracy: you can be angry and right, or ebullient and wrong.

It may have been level-headed, but the tone was not even. It came across as though you had just gotten through a relationship a feminist, and are still upset about your ex.

You! lol

You need to calm down, man. Too emotional. It's really not worth getting worked up about.

*shrug* the more people do it, the easier it will get. Maybe some people don't have the ability to negotiate that kind of contract. But if you're a programmer, you do.

Once again, the biggest problem here is that people aren't willing to take a paycut. If you're not willing to do that, then it's a lot harder.

Then negotiate your contract to get more days off. I've done it, you can do it, too.

The catch is, you won't get paid as much, and most people aren't willing to put up with that.

What is their reserve ration? If it is high, that would be the biggest difference between them and a bank (the difference being they are unlikely to default if the reserve ratio is high).