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I look forward to this app now being approved because getting a viral post on reddit/HN/Twitter is what passes for customer service in 2026.

> Here's a question I have for all the predictable "I don't need a union" SWEs out there: if unions were so bad, why do companies literally spend millions and break the law to make…

VCs are footing the bill for that $200 subscription.

> Under the social model, we ask all able-bodied people to accommodate disabled individuals instead. This sounds good in the abstract, but the devil is in the details. What specifi…

> This is my experience with all Microsoft software. The worst thought out, buggy, untested pile of crap. AKA: Slop. Microsoft was publishing slop before LLMs were even a thing, it…

No they aren't, it looks like the prices doubled and the government significantly cut taxes to hide the increase. That's not to mention the 3 year price spike during 2021-2023. Who…

> He noted that the term “solar subsidy” can be misleading, as it implies that every kilowatt-hour of solar electricity fed into the grid is fully funded by public money. > The IWR…

I mean we gatekeep major body alterations.

> Children and teens can absolutely know these things about themselves. They can also absolutely be unduly influenced by their parents or other authority figures. The fact that Meg…

We do it all the time with people who believe they should be amputees. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/body-integrit...

Counterpoint: https://segm.org/regret-detransition-rate-unknown > And since gender transition is a lifelong process required to maintain a masculinized or feminized appearance, ins…

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This is only slightly more malicious than the software "Smart TVs" already ship with.

Both of you are describing a "waterfall model" of coding, where you conceive of the solution in its entirety before simply writing it down. I don't know if everyone else works this…

The environmentalists who railed against nuclear for the last 30 years are very much responsible for how many dead dinosaurs we've burnt over that time. Excuse me if I'm skeptical …

> They already produce power much cheaper, and cost efficiency keeps increasing. Yet France, which invested heavily in nuclear[1], has energy prices that are 40% lower than Germany…

What's new is the inversion of who holds these opinions. With the internet/computers, company leadership was often the skeptical voice while small pockets of individuals would push…

> Roughly 20% of undergraduate students at Ivy Plus institutions (including Harvard, Brown, and Cornell) are registered as disabled and receive accommodations. This figure has surg…

> we could take care of everyone with disabilities 10x over with plenty to spare. Yes, like the 40%[1] of Stanford undergrads who have disabilities. The greatest long term impedime…

No idea what you guys are talking about. The Christian faction of the right has waned significantly since the Bush presidency.

The reason the "myth" persists is because there are some folks who take advantage of the system like this. In fact, many people personally know someone who's doing this. We can deb…

This is like the Canadian version of "no true Scotsman". When the province in question has 1/3 of the population of the country, what's the difference?

> Take your dissatisfaction with the way the government manages payments to the voting booth And vote for who? I have yet to hear a compelling solution from any party. At most, pol…

Yup. Recently drove 6 hours (each way, twice) to get to a Canadian private clinic to get treatment. This saved approximately a year (or more) of waiting in the public system for a …