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Drivers killed about 200 times as many people as bicyclists over a 15 year period. You are misplacing your fears. https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nycdot-pedestria...

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OP describes systems which seed tests with non-determinism to catch users who write tests relying on undefined behavior, such as order of equal elements. Writing tests against thes…

Not mentioned in the article is power density. How quickly can the energy be released? Consider solar panels, you need a table sized cell to get 100W. That can make for a big batte…

I hope that iterations can get some language level treatment via a mechanism to hook into the ‘range’ operator on custom containers.

I was curious to see if anyone had tried the coal mine bit. This is the closest I could find, a business plan to sell coal attached to carbon credits. Not sure what’s happened sinc…

I worried about this too. But I think my attitude has changed after watching lots of the PBS Space Time youtube channel. They do a great job of breaking down these concepts at a le…

If a Netflix subcontractor didn’t pay their actors, writers, etc, they would catch a well deserved deluge of criticism. Of course it wouldn’t happen because those workers are organ…

I haven’t done the analysis myself, but I highly doubt winterization would double the cost of energy. It’s probably some small portion of the capex to build the plant in the first …

Unfortunately the percussive clacks from a keyboard are probably too broad spectrum to neutralize. These transient waveforms are hard to beat.

Stamping out the above board market for hacks, is not a perfect solution. But limiting the free flow of these hacks from private companies to law enforcement and governments will d…

High taxes incentivizes more productive use of real estate, such as multi family housing.

I find that the prices of the food are also inflated over what the restaurant would charge.

As someone who writes <5 commits of C++ per year, it is very frustrating. I can’t get through a code review without reviewers referencing at least 2 blog posts about proper style f…

This comment hits on one particular issue of ulterior motives in the actions of a non-profit. But more generally, there is a whitewashing going on. Look at the Sackler family, whic…

Racial inequality isn’t a one percenter problem if your child was Killed by the police. Pollution isn’t a one percenter problem if your kids all have asthma from inhaling coal fume…

I read Giridharadas' book, and I found it to be pretty narrowly focused on hypocrisy of the wealthy class. Sure, there is a lot of undeserved back patting about how much good peopl…

You could subscribe to a newspaper or magazine.

I have to imagine that this is to mitigate problems with bandwidth intensive low level networking equipment that is performance sensitive, not application level code. That equipmen…

The foil in this article were tabloids and paparazzi. I imagine you were not the one rifling through People magazine before Instagram, much in the same way you don’t follow these p…

Pressure to IPO sooner would probably be a good thing for most people. Index fund holders got to benefit from the rise of Amazon and Google much more so than the rise of Uber. Publ…

I disagree. US companies can have such an outsized impact by the volume of money they bring, that it can create a moral vacuum that sucks up all the air in a place. Everyone has a …

Let the market decide.

Well sound uses different neural pathways than audio, so it's not a totally fair comparison.

And how many of those were untested? Most I imagine.