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Probably talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_ox . This page suggests this may be a bit of a myth

That depends. Inflation is a measure of the cost of living in terms of currency. It can be high either if goods and services required for living become scarce, or if currency suppl…

`it's technically possible to pass the blame to other people` presupposes that the blame belongs to the reporter unless effort is taken to "shift" it. This is just an inaccurate wo…

You're mentally stuck in 2009-2015. The world has moved on and Spain is now significantly outperforming Germany in growth (obviously not yet in wealth, which is the integral of gro…

The problem with this argument is that pharmaceutical companies are private businesses trying to make a profit, not charities. If it were truly unprofitable to sell drugs in, say, …

I think it's likely that both the blog poster and the maintainer are being perceived as more negative in tone than the intent / reality. They both included disclaimers "I must be d…

These days isn't the solution to this just "ask " to read the code and write the documentation"?

I love Typescript but I think I disagree with this. The point of the post seems to be that features of the Rust compiler help enforce that you use certain runtime / environment / d…

But the OP did implement a fully featured app as the Nue comparison half of the benchmark. I have never used Nue and don't know if I ever would. I just think to be fair to the OP, …

This. It's ridiculous how often people complain about the design of free software. If you don't like it, just don't use it! Use something else! Build your own! Or fork it to work i…

Walled gardens are good because if you insist on picking your fruits only from the wilderness due to moral principles you're gonna get mauled by a bear some time. Sure, you might p…

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/01/elon-mu... "Like, the same font, right? And she points this out to the HR manager, and they’re like, Yeah, that means that this…

It's an ad. The key point he works up to is `Put another way, you need a sidecar database. The data moat needs to be fast and queryable. This is a Search Problem!` And then of cour…

You greatly overestimate the quality of the will of the people. Just because you don't like certain outcomes because they are stupid doesn't mean that those outcomes aren't what pe…

"Health care should be strictly preventative and diagnostic" runs into the problem that not everyone agrees what that means. For a while most Europeans thought that leeching yourse…

It might not be enough for you, but maybe you're not the target audience. His blog is quite popular so clearly it's enough for a lot of folks. What is "good" communication depends …

https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0702396 is a very thorough answer to this question by a very well respected mathematician

Making Elsevier reconsider its practices is a self-defeating goal. Pay-per-access research publishing should be driven out of business. The majority of institutions funding the act…

Too much bureaucracy is often at fault, but seems very unlikely in this particular case. Are all the other countries mentioned in the article less bureaucratized or regulated? Ther…

"A base of 2 is useful because there are several small positive integers whose base-two logarithms are also integers." What? No! Base 2 is natural in exactly the same way that base…

The stock market represents a tiny and shrinking sliver of the overall economy. https://businessreview.studentorg.berkeley.edu/why-your-favo... . In many cases there is no distribu…

The reason that pay transparency laws (which probably don't apply to this position, but exist in other states) require salary ranges and not a specific number is precisely to accou…

This was a really remarkable way to undermine your argument. It's possible to make a strong philosophical argument that government regulation of salary transparency is unnecessary …

You underestimate the laziness of most humans. To be clear, screenshots are still not trustworthy. But the "negligible" relatively more effort could matter in practice. Cryptograph…

Is your concrete proposal that data should only be allowed to be collected and shared by people with a specific agenda to push?