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I don't agree. "Diversity" has a commonly accepted meaning which in the US at least, means everything except white men. Female or non-white are "diversity." A great example are the…

Thanks, that's an interesting idea. We have developers in the US, Europe, and South America. I have no idea what the median incomes are (or how the salary bands were calculated) bu…

When posting a job opening, we normally include salary range. However, we are expanding this role to include international applicants, and the salary range can be different dependi…

For those of us pain patients who had their opioid-based medication taken "because of the opioid epidemic" (even though we did nothing wrong and had been stable for many years or e…

Wow, I'm really disappointed by that in Next.js. I love the product, and I'm sure they're being ethical about what they collect and how they track it, but I deploy this on my produ…

What's the scene like for music piracy nowadays? It seems like it was mostly gone. I've looked in a few different places and finding music released in the last 10 years is somewhat…

I've made this argument to many progressive friends, and nearly all of them replied with a variant of "you're 'bothsides'ing this" which apparently is supposed to mean your argumen…

Won't somebody please think of the children??

> I'd say it's more of an act of civil disobedience meant to draw attention to the casually corrupt practices of the NYPD. Didn't the driver call the police though?

In this particular case I agree with you. But how would you write this into a law that citizens and police can reference to determine whether a particular action is ok or not?

I'm a social ignoramus so wondering: is the cyclist in this case being a "Karen"? I have little sympathy for the driver, but it does seem like the cyclist should have reported the …

Interesting, thanks for sharing. If you haven't tried it, Alprazolam (Xanax) has been a miracle for panic attacks, although these days it's pretty difficult to get from doctors. Mo…

If you are willing to take anti-depressants, definitely go. low testosterone though, is something many men (including me) have, but practically no doctor is willing to treat. They …

It sounds stupid, but seriously dairy causes a lot of issues for people. I hit rock bottom several years ago and did an elimination diet and found a few things I need to avoid, but…

Rabbit is definitely interesting. How is the maintenance/management on RabittMQ? Is it comparable to say a Postgres instance, or is it more or less?

Oh interesting, no I don't have a source for that. Just something I've read a bunch of times. Probably falls into the "if you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes true" (although …

What do people use as an alternative to SQS? I've had Kafka mentioned a few times but that's way heavier/more complicated than I need. Just a simple queue is perfect, and SQS' API …

Interesting, I don't think I've noticed the same criticism for Brave. But many times when it has come up in discussions at work, people will say they don't want to use it and don't…

Oh absolutely. The reason the Boston Tea Party is celebrated is because their side won the war. Had the British won, it would have been one of the many wicked/evil "rebellions" aga…

I don't think it's cynical at all, I think it's just accepting reality. Our advanced consciousness is just a very thin layer of abstraction on top of the same brain/mind that power…

> If you have the power to do something and you don't, that's taking a side. You either oppose something or you enable it. At least own that. If you're saying you're neutral, you e…

Perhaps I'm overthinking this, but open source malware is absolutely not new. It's been around basically as long as the internet has (and I mean pre-www). You could even argue that…

Yes but pointing out that the emperor has no clothes is mean, so we need to pretend not to notice. Despite our modern day knowledge that most human behavior is almost entirely ince…

The Svelte banner looks ok on desktop, but yeah seriously problematic on mobile. I think this is an outgrowth of the "use whatever power you have to push for change" culture. It ha…