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"Considering" might be a bit strong. All that's really happening is the CRTC is opening a public consultation in response to a formal complaint. A cursory look at the CRTC's websit…

That was a very entertaining read. Pulling no punches in the conclusion: > 'In the modern-day vernacular, people often refer to a criminal case “being thrown out”. Obviously, this …

Code formatting is difficult to read on mobile because the text doesn't wrap properly. You end up having to scroll horizontally to read it all.

I ran a performance audit from the Chrome dev tools: First meaningful paint: 8,820 ms First Interactive : 11,420 ms Those are brutal numbers for just about anything, let alone a si…

It seems like there are a couple big issues with this. 1) What if your passenger was using your phone? 2) What if you using voice-commands to send a text (especially if via CarPlay…

Here’s an example: while interviewing a man for a comptroller position, he asked me if I was familiar with financial statements, like a balance sheet. This person knew I had been a…

This is true, but I think the point the parent comment was getting at is that an investigation tends to take a more holistic look at the incident rather than simply assigning blame…

I'm not sure why the article refers to Chesterton's fence as a fallacy when it basically agrees with the principle that you shouldn't blindly push reforms without understanding the…

SQLite is one of the best examples I can think of. https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

To be fair, the article is up front about that. But that's the point of this whole post: If you can't justify being nice for the sake of others, at least be nice for the sake of yo…

In 2013, the Wunderland donated one square meter to each of the six major political parties in Germany, asking them to envision what the nation would look like if their party were …

Doesn't directly corroborate the story, but does back up that they worked together. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/us/09manning.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/mag…