The senate already gives proportional control by statehood and prevents that sort of issue.

Why would you purchase insurance on something that another entity is controlling? I'll accept liability for my own actions, but I won't accept liability for Google/Tesla/etc's actions; I don't control the software, so why should I pay for the liability?

Are you implying that Facebook has a duty to publish your copyrighted material? They're not destroying copyrighted material when they stop hosting any more than people are stealing when they copy copyrighted information.

I've used Jekyll and it is wonderful to be able to author in plain old Markdown. You can just write what you want and be guaranteed that you'll always be able to render it somehow, and with Jekyll you can implement your own organization of flat files. It comes with templating and looks good on mobile too. Jekyll Now is pretty nice to kick the tires.

I've found that the time spent managing passwords has drastically decreased with a password manager like KeePass, and to boot I have more secure passwords. Password re-use is the single largest problem with data leaks, and you will have problems with remembering oddball usernames where your preferred username is taken. Solve all the problems in one shot and use KeePass or similar. Your "super complicated" KeePass password is just a correcthorsebatterystaple and passwords are a ctrl-v away (highlight the entry you want to auto-type, hit ctrl-v, and it alt-tabs and types it in for you).

I can't tell you how many accounts I've lost before going to a secure, centralized manager. How do you remember all your usernames?

Hopefully the cure for obesity would be more in the form of managing both satiety and metabolism properly. This would let obese people eat less, therefore remaining both efficient as well as healthy.

If Apple handed them signed firmware, they could extract it and use it on others. The current firmware is not vulnerable, hence the request for Apple to create and sign malicious firmware.

I'm having trouble imagining one that opens outward, since the idea of it opening inward is that it can brace against the valve seat when the cylinder is firing. If you open it outward, the mechanism takes the full brunt of the forces against the surface area of the valve vs. a valve seat. Is there a good way to alleviate that issue?

Yes I agree that the study is flawed for that reason, as well as another parent poster's reason of the study being 5 years and not indefinite. People will need to better themselves or at least not slide backwards in order to ensure that they don't falter in 5 years when the money ends and they will potentially want to do more because they are being watched. Both of these affect the outcome.

Wait, what? The measurement is part of this study; Y-Combinator is doing this study to determine if policy should follow so they need to quantify the result. Government would only have to balance the books: do taxes bring in more than the basic income and all of the other expenses cost?

I'm not saying that if we enact a basic income it does not mean that we will not have a lot of the analysis (hell we're getting it with or without a basic income, at this rate), but it does not follow that it must be requirement for basic income.

Give a friendlier distribution that is focused on end users a try. I've been very pleased with Linux Mint lately. The Cinnamon desktop is quite nice and is plug-and-play: I spent less time installing and customizing this to my satisfaction last week than an equivalent Windows install (I gave up installing Windows on this laptop already).

I don't think that a Linux distribution that is focused on an embedded environment is a good representation of the state of the art on Linux. It would be like dismissing Win7 after using WinCE.

You understand, of course, that there is literally a massive oil-production conspiracy? It's called OPEC, and they have a history of manipulating the market. In this case, it seems that they're looking to make oil unprofitable for us until the small players have to go belly up.

We're also seeing the industry start to mature as well as competitive pressure from abroad and through the H1B program. Programming is not as sexy as it was in 1998.

You may have something here, but indirectly. IBM has been on a collision course with failure ever since they started chasing imaginary dividend numbers in order to appease shareholders. They've mortgaged their future in the name of short-term profit and the chickens are coming home to roost. The root cause, of course, would appear to be shareholders' intolerance for companies engaging in long term investment and actual research. They would appear to be happier to gut companies and distribute their value to insiders. This is the strategy that is dooming our competitiveness in the long term and killing our middle class.

"Hey, thanks for fixing the IP conflict man! *shuts off breaker and gas line to furnace, replaces thermostat*"

I've got nothin'. Are they on the req list?

Launching rubber bullets and tear gas, which share the 40mm platform.

I'm sure some contorted logic could qualify; subject X is using software Y, and we need to fool subject X into downloading our software Z... I agree with your initial sentiment though: "sometimes doesn't mean much given today's Federal government".