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Wow, do nutrition labels in USA generally not show figures per 100g?

Literally the first sentence:

Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments.

Consider Dubai. Built by immigrants, used by natives.

Your argument is that it's OK to hurt someone if there's a chance that they might be hurt regardless.

If I were Chinese I'd be feeling pretty damn patronized if someone told me they were taking my iPhone away and I should be happy about it.

This would harm Chinese people. If you lived in China, would you consider an iPhone or a Chinese phone to be more secure against intrusion?

Stupid question: can the glue code not be licensed under both GPL and CCDL?

Clearly ZFS is not a derivative work of Linux and Linux is not a derivative work of ZFS. Only the glue code is in violation (because it derives from both).

That some people are too vain to adopt is not a good enough justification. It is a foundational point of ethics that medical experimentation must be voluntary.

Tell that to WeChat, Alipay et al.

If I buy a grain of sand from you for $10, have I just massively expanded the number of dollars in existence?

Market capitalisations != money.

> As I understand it, bitcoin doesn't track coins so much as it tracks the funds associated with account numbers.

It's actually the opposite. The blockchain does track coins, but not accounts or account numbers. Rather, each transaction involves "scripts" which specify some conditions with which coins can be used as inputs to another transaction.

In a normal transaction, one key can spend the coins, but e.g. it is possible to send coins to a script that is impossible to satisfy, therefore the coins are unspendable, yet don't exist in an 'account' at all.

Decaying in more than one way. The JS files on milliondollarhomepage.com start with:

    /*
         FILE ARCHIVED ON 5:47:20 Aug 6, 2015 AND RETRIEVED FROM THE
         INTERNET ARCHIVE ON 20:45:17 Aug 24, 2015.
         JAVASCRIPT APPENDED BY WAYBACK MACHINE, COPYRIGHT INTERNET ARCHIVE.
    
         ALL OTHER CONTENT MAY ALSO BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT (17 U.S.C.
         SECTION 108(a)(3)).
    */

I guess someone didn't keep backups?

> Is it possible that we're fat only because we're eating the wrong kind of sugars?

Nope, we are fat because there are many cheap sources of calories, particularly deep fried foods.

I think by "better" you mean "more properly" ;)

I'm sure IELTS doesn't cover important life skills such as "use of the word innit".

Imagine you go to Ancient Greece and tell them: "in the future there will be a library of over 1 million books and papers containing the knowledge of the world, that any person rich or poor can access from almost anywhere in the world"

Do you think their reaction will be: A) wonder that such a library can exist, or B) to tell you that it is not a library because of the flagrant copyright violations.

Libgen and scihub are among the most amazing products of humanity, that will receive a prominent place in human history. That they are illegal is an almost boring item of trivia.