Can we not teach about the scientific method and how to recognize pseudo-science in school or does that infringe on the first amendment somehow? I don't see how else anyone is supposed to learn science -- human nature has its own tendencies (positivity bias, ingroup bias, etc) which we have to overcome to see science. Obviously, we should be doing more as the antivax movement is international health threat -- unless
Is it not the government's role to teach civility in civics? Learn about the world's religions, how to speak in a way that's respectful, so we can debate the problems with each other like adults instead of shooting each other or bombing each other to resolve our differences. Or insulting one another needlessly:P

What do you call someone who likes Microsoft's new browser?

An edgelord

I've noticed that the time to acquire an I/O handle under Windows is exceedingly slow all which affects all manner of Un*x operations (you can write a toy program in C which simply opens a file, writes a single character and then exits). Since everything from 'git status' to 'grep myString * -R' requires using file handles, Unix-y command line stuff is several orders of magnitude slower on a Windows system. It's not the file system either -- you can mount a drive FAT32 in Linux and still notice that Windows is slower.

My hypothesis is that since Windows has always lacked any real security, each and every file anyone accesses is first put through a virus scanner.

Why do we need voting machines in the first place? I was a little shocked when I showed up to vote in San Jose and there's literally one voting machine for those with disabilities. For everyone else, you fill out a paper ballot and go on your way. The advantages of said system are simplicity, traceability, and secure. Without a central point to attack, rigging elections would involve rigging every single polling place -- which is hard and you'd probably get caught.

For competent engineers, "if it ain't broke don't fix it" is a principle of design. And then there's Microsoft.

I really, really wish they'd backed QT/KDE instead of giving in to GNOME, though. GNOME is such a cesspit of quasi-Apple ("the customer is always wrong") ideology. It would've been lovely to have a big name directly backing KDE or perhaps another QT-based desktop instead of the shrugworthy Unity.

They actually tried this. Unity 8.0 was a rewrite from Gnome to Qt, but then Canonical decided to nix their phone OS project which also ended up abandoning Unity. It's a shame -- the only reason GTK was created was that Qt wasn't LGPL at the time. Now that Qt's been LGPL for over a decade, you'd expect more desktop environments to use it.

It's the year of the Linux desktop!

If only someone thought of that before (:

There's some precedent for this. Kara Neummann was an otherwise healthy child with diabetes. Her parents decided that prayer was more helpful than insulin and she died as a result. Now, they're in prison for murder and lost their appeal.

If a child were to die because they're parents believe that doctors are all quacks, I don't think it matters whether it's insulin or a vaccine -- the law is the law.

I've been using Linux for servers/workstations for around 2 decades and think it's the best choice for both. I'm using a Dell Precision 5520 right and Linux still isn't very laptop friendly -- and laptops are the vast majority of non-tablets/phone computers people use. The Noveau driver freezes (I'm talking kernel panic) periodically when you close and open the laptop or plug it into more multiple screens. After replacing this open source driver with the proprietary NVidia driver, I occasionally get rendering artifacts in every application -- not a big deal but a little annoying. I plug my laptop into a TV in an attempt to watch Netflix and I have to manually switch the audio to HDMI. And if I unplug the HDMI cable for a single second, I get to go through the whole exercise again. I am using Fedora19/KDE which isn't exactly the best choice for a laptop, but it's surprising how many little bugs still exist on the platform for laptops that simply aren't present in the server/desktop world where Linux really shines.
Like most Linux folk, I'm going to just get another MacBook for my portable machine and run Ubuntu in a VM if the need arises -- I have a larger probability that someone will send me a Word document and LibreOffice/OpenOffice still aren't a replacement.

A near-anonymous frictionless currency is ideal for pariah states wishing to bring money into Europe/USA/Canada. Crime syndicates can park illegal assets in as an alternative to money-laundering -- which is around a trillion dollar per year industry internationally.

Russia is both of these.

Tesla has killed 3 times as many people in self-driving car accidents than Uber (the only other company with fatalities). Further, anyone stupid enough to trust Tesla's FSD deserves a Darwin award. Taking rich idiots out of the gene pool is a universal good and I'd like to thank Elon Musk for his public service.

This is for Leukaemia -- which is another blood based illness -- but the technique is the same:
https://xkcd.com/938/

All code has to be written in assembly at some point. If you're making your compiler implement C++14 move semantics, for example, you may need to write portions of that code in assembly. If you create a new microcontroller, you'll also have to implement a compiler to assembly somewhere. Assembly is also hard thus lots of people are trying to find an answer and probably don't find the right answer the first time.

The idea of "streaming games to your TV so you don't have to have a console" has been around since around 2000. Here's a complete gravey^H^H^H list of some of the companies who have tried. Even technologies like NVidia's shield or Steam's ability to stream within the intranet don't seem to have taken off.
Google entry into this market seems foolhardy at best.

Newsflash, motherfuckers; don't be chumps. This is the 'justice" system the way it's supposed to. What; you didn't think it existed to benefit you, did you??

Where would someone get such an idea? Here:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. ~ The Fifth Amendment [emphasis mine]

So yes, the justice system was designed to work for everyone. Anyone who says it shouldn't be is an enemy of democracy.