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I mean, most of those people could just exercise or change their diets instead of relying on expensive drugs with unknown long term side effects

It's still a definite conflict of interest; the author is making an argument that they have a financial interest to advance regardless of how true it is

I took that article a lot less seriously after seeing that the author just founded an AI startup

I've always thought that "Silicon Valley" was just a broad term that described tech companies anywhere in the San Francisco Bay Area.

thanks, I needed a good chuckle today

It's very opinionated compared to the alternatives and it has a "batteries included" kind of approach. There's a "right" way to do things and you don't need to pull in a lot of thi…

Good for them. I don't use any of their products, but I'm rooting for them

RIP Pebble. I still wear my Pebble Time Steel every day

I've been using Mutagen for years to offload running docker containers during local development from my Mac to a Linux machine and it works great. I'm glad to see more people talki…

What use does China have for icebreakers?

This kind of research seems promising because it's not even a substitute, it claims to be the exact same product, only derived from a different source. A lot of people don't want w…

Isn't this fraud?

Gradle also has the ability to skip things it has already done. It won't recompile code that hasn't changed, won't run tests that haven't changed, etc

Yeah, I have no idea what that person is talking about. I'm in the same situation as you; we can compile hundreds of thousands of lines of Java code in dozens of different jars in …

Gradle and Maven are both a million times better than whatever constantly changing collection of random stuff you have to use to build a contemporary node project.

It's nice to see truth in journalism every once in awhile

Ukraine is a democracy. It's not up to us or anyone else to "ensure their neutrality" if that's not what they want. We already refused to allow them into NATO under the guise of "e…

What's the alternative? Doing nothing while Russia invades countries in Eastern Europe one after the other?

That's not entirely true; Allied forces fought against North Korea under the banner of UN

You seem to be completely ignoring the lack of legitimacy and popular support that the authoritarian regimes in both Iraq and Afghanistan had, as well as the human rights violation…

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were repugnant, but comparing the invasion of countries with brutal authoritarian regimes with the invasion of a functional liberal democracy seems…

The original article says the same thing multiple times

My organization decided to hold off on purchasing M1 MacBooks for developers until they're better supported by third party software. Too much stuff just crashes or doesn't work wel…

This won't work on the new M1 macs since it uses VirtualBox