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> To prevent deleting data by mistake, we invent soft-delete pattern by having a is_deleted column. However, this brings extra complexities around foreign key, unique index enforce…

Yes, their page describing adverse events after vaccination has statistics on the rarity of events: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad... For example: > A…

I think that User-Centered Design (UCD) would be a better term here for what this concept is trying to say. In modern design, we tell user stories that help guide development of in…

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The law of software bloat has been known since the 1980's. It's called Wirth's Law, or "What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law .…

I think there are two versions of the simulation hypothesis. The first version is that we are in a simulation that is run in the future with ourselves as ancestors. The second vers…

The total population is expected to increase by a billion people by 2030, which is 50 times larger than the expected maximum of 20 million jobs lost. Why would you assume that thos…

What a terrible article. They are unequal devices. - This is not a design flaw. The screen is just small. They are not real network clients. - This is not a design flaw. It's the b…

This story made me think of an analogy about robot emotions. I use Alexa and she has a cheerful female voice. I could argue that Alexa has real emotions. Here's my argument. Imagin…

Article is missing some relevant information. 1. Enzymes in the fig digest wasp parts so you don't normally find wasps inside your figs. So they really are vegan. 2. The males are …

Well, let's be scientific about this. If Bill Gates is willing to write me a check for 640K, I'll be happy to test his theory for him. ;-)

Since you already have a job role in mind, I suggest that you take a look at at job applications in that area, for example on https://www.indeed.com/ . Look through the job require…

The way I see it, there are at least four criteria for using a blockchain. 1. The goods are permanent, otherwise you don't need the history of the blockchain. 2. The goods are valu…

There are tablets in the front and back ( https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Front-_-... ). You were taught to drive manually, not in an Uber self-driving car. If …

I think it's incorrect to say that the woman was looking at her phone. She was looking down and to the right of the steering wheel, which is where Uber places a monitoring tablet (…

I agree that they are not collecting personal information. They are collecting information about your computer system. According to the ICO definition of personal data, it means "a…

Once the number of of Bitcoins approaches zero, the finite value of the Bitcoin ecosystem divided by zero coins approaches infinity. This will create a financial singularity that w…

There's an informative flowchart on p. 3 of the linked PDF that describes the logic of this site. Your question is basically covered by "are there multiple writers?" since that imp…

If you look at the graph in the article comparing different bubbles, Bitcoin peaked at 60 times the starting price, which is the largest relative peak in the graph. It is the large…

I don't see what the excitement is about blockchain. Can't you do the same stuff with SQL? Blockchain: * Separates your transactions into blocks and hashes the blocks together. * U…

I think you are giving far too much credit to a simple like button. It's the content of the user's post that the person is liking, not the genius of Facebook.

"We're the Rats, and Facebook Likes Are the Reward" - This argument has no validity. Facebook doesn't even dispense the likes, other users do. It isn't valid to compare likes to Sk…

Your first guess was correct. "...autonomous weapons have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms." ( https://futureoflife.org/open-lett…

This may be what you're looking for: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_349.asp According to that table, women's bachelor's degrees in computer science: * were low…

> 70% of science/engineering students in Iran are women: The Forbes site you reference cites a Quora post, which quotes a Wikipedia article. What the Wikipedia article actually say…