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I think that's maybe the point of the article: "Whereas before, average was expensive in terms of both time and effort, average became cheap."

A car that starts 50% of the time isn't "average". The average new car starts more or less every time. (And if you said 'modal average', I'd say the modal average new car starts ev…

Not everyone can be average. Half of people will be below average. I might not agree with the point, but I can see that idea that many things just need to be "good enough" (which w…

My point more was that you said it wasn't a widely shared opinion, but to my mind, it is broadly the status quo. Whether that is good or bad is a separate point.

Is that definitely not a widely shared opinion? I feel like I can think of lots of situations where society puts in to protect children rather than leaving it to the parents (age r…

The article says: Why is beauty a productivity-enhancing attribute for males in non-quantitative subjects? Generally, it is difficult to disentangle the reasons behind why beauty i…

I am very struck by this remark: "Kovid has stated numerous times that any patches which work towards python3 compatibility without hurting python2 functionality or performance wou…

Unless it's the LTSC edition of Windows 10, which has support until 2029

I'm not convinced "big digital projects" in the private sector fare any better. As far as I can see, the scale of the project is a bigger problem than whether the originator is a p…

This is only iOS

According to the article: "Those who got the stipend were less likely to be unsheltered after six months and able to meet more of their basic needs than a control group that got no…

The thing is, if I read a study that says “actually, everyone should be drinking 3 glasses of wine a night” I disregard that study as clearly nonsense and would question any future…

This might be me being picky, but you mentioned at first: "I've essentially got 15-20 high-priced world-class consultants in every field that I chose to pull from" And then here sa…

Might it be made difficult to replace them, even if they're cheaper, because of the political influence of the goal/gas lobby groups in America?

Or the classic result of updating the code but not updating the comment: //Returns the user's full name return user.email;

They do have MDM. But that doesn't necessarily stop people installing their own apps.

Although the grammar is quite poor in the 50 IQ one

The BBC is semi-public sector. Bonuses are incredibly rare.

The problem is, creating the code isn't really the bottleneck. It's the stakeholder negotiation and conversations and understanding the business problem and updating the site when …

There's a line in War of the Worlds that was innocuous at the time, but is impossible to read as intended now to our modern eyes: "He heard footsteps running to and fro in the room…

I do agree with you that Apple have done well to support this. But also 2016 is only 6 years ago. It's not just Apple thing, but it really doesn't feel sustainable for us to keep w…

I genuinely don't get this mindset at all. Even if they were to pay you, they're hardly going to pay you very much to do some coding assessment that's a few hours work.

This feels mad to me. Companies don't pay people to go through the application process to work for them.

I think the point is they're not working for free - they're doing an assessment. If they're asking you to do real production work for free, that's one thing. But giving you an exer…

The assignment is an assessment though, it isn't actual business work. I've seen before this suggestion that companies are trying to get free work out of candidates, but I find tha…