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If it did happen, would it be in his interest to admit it?

Not an academic article, but Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline has a more technical write-up: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/05/30/ant...

If only they'd bring back sort by number of ratings...

If they used code that they downloaded without a license, they have violated copyright law. (All code created in the US and most other countries has a copyright at creation.)

So they either accepted the GPL or violated copyright.

Wouldn't it be better to make the donation piece more like a secret ballot, i.e. make it hard for anyone to find out whom a given scientist funded? That would make quid pro quo arrangements less likely because one party wouldn't be able to determine if the other stuck to the agreement or cheated.

It's easy for even a big search to miss someone, even when that person is alive. Geraldine Largay got lost on the Appalachian Trail in Maine, survived for 26 days, and died less than 2 miles from the trail, yet a large search didn't find her, and her remains weren't found for more than two years after her disappearance:

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/01/29/maine-hiker-missing-2-...

This traffic light in Harrison, NY has been green for decades: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0142226,-73.7217408,3a,75y,1... I have been driving through there since the late 70's and I'm pretty sure that the intersection configuration was in place earlier than that. So it's likely that this light has been green for over fifty years.

Ad-blockers seem to be able to identify them pretty reliably.

That might be bad for taxi companies, but what happens to Lyft in that scenario? Won't other ride sharing companies start up?

Uber only becomes a monopoly if they can keep all competition out, not just taxi companies. Taxi companies succeeded in doing that for decades by colluding with politicians to limit competition. Uber would have to adopt a similar strategy to get anything close to a monopoly.

Can you describe the steps that would lead to Uber becoming a monopoly? I can't imagine that happening without government help, can you? And if it requires that kind of help, is the problem with Uber or government?

If 49% of people stop using Uber, Uber loses almost half its revenue and will probably be forced to change its practices or go out of business. What happens if 49% of people don't vote for a US presidential candidate?

Right, but only one request can be in progress against a container at a time, correct? So there's no reason for your pool to allow more than one connection. Of course, that might still be useful for retry, etc. if the connection went away while the container was frozen.

Isn't this exactly how it works? If you're a big contributor, the rep hears your concerns. If not, they're filtered through multiple layers of staffers or dropped on the floor.

Evidently their intention is that if you write a program with Ellie and save it it is in the public domain. According to my correspondent, they may switch to releasing edited code with the MIT license.

I let him know that those terms would make me very reluctant to use Ellie for anything, even open source code, since the ability to apply an open source license requires that I have a copyright. I suggested that they putting a very visible statement of what they're doing on the page.

Clicking the About button I see:

"All content created with Ellie is released in the public domain (CC0)."

Are they claiming that any program written with Ellie is in the public domain?

(edit) I've emailed to ask their intent. I'll post an update if I get a reply.

I read it as only allowing you to redistribute unmodified copies, because clause 3 only permits modification "for your own internal use."

I find clause 3 of the license bad also, since it says that you can only use changes internally. Taken together, I read the license as saying that you may only release unmodified copies of the code and only as part of a larger project.

A number of prepaid providers are offering data roaming plans now. See this list: http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.com/wiki/European_Union

This recent Econlog podcast has a good discussion of megaprojects and why they fail: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/05/bent_flyvbjerg.html

Obviously it's subjective, but I'd prefer a machine with a 4:3 display, because when I'm coding or reading I need vertical real estate much more than horizontal.

I always assumed that the move to 16:9 for computers was driven mostly by either manufacturing economies of scale or the coolness factor of HDTV's.

Presumably that's what the court will have to decide, if it gets that far.

I assume the answer to his baseball question (why do baserunner go counter-clockwise?) is that most players bat right-handed. When the idea of running around the bases developed it made sense for batters to run to a base in front of them, which for a right-handed better meant a counter-clockwise trip around the bases.