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I'll pitch in my own two cents. In the worlds I've worked in it would help a lot for every engineer to do a stint at a customer site. The bigger places I've worked for could have e…

As someone with a similar time in harness in industries that rhyme with that, I feel your pain. While I'd prefer to work, not needing the money implies the ability to avoid the int…

Very cool. A person can really appreciate simple web design looking at something like Luke Smith's recipe page. So how on earth do you take an idea like this and scale it for both …

That's a shame since I think that Youtube can be really amazing. My main (practically only) use for it is to watch amateur-produced special interest shows that are done on a regula…

Looking at the US Constitution, IP law should be designed to heavily encourage innovation. I would think that the actual details of law would reflect that rather than maximizing th…

I wonder how you tell illegal optimizing for a test vs. legal optimizing for a test. Lord knows what sort of magic they stick into 'Energy Star' appliances.

>These questions are always asked in bad faith, I'd say not. I'd genuinely like to know if a cloth bandana has any value, if grocery stores are dangerous, is the mass of people act…

I think that news has extended quite far into op-ed space. There's a combination of just what news is reported and just how a thing is worded. Modern newspapers and news magazines …

>FB is what my racist parents use It looks to me like you've got bigger fish to fry than Facebook. It's probably time to give your parents a break.

I did it for three decades (3.5?) and the only code reviews were with friends of mine who worked at multiple companies together. The whole point of the review was to find outright …

>Which is another argument for scrapping the opinion section of every newspaper, it confuses people. At this point, I'd say that that's the entire newspaper. They operate in the sa…

>These are not trivial matters that we should quickly forgive them over. Just imagine the fun you'll have when you start kicking them out of helicopters. The endorphin rush should …

>the proliferation and promotion of medical misinformation. I can see that working both ways. The anti-vax folks are never going to believe the 'get vaccinated or you'll die' sort …

I'd love to talk to the folks that work at the outrage porn outlets. Are they true believers doing whatever it takes? Actually think they print news? Just in it for the money? How …

>a smart dude works on a problem that saves World War 2 and now powers your phone and your TikTok app. So much for the Polish Cipher Bureau. Not so many tragic hero opportunities t…

>All children have heroes they look up to. After reading that I sat here for a minute and racked my brain as to who my childhood 'hero' might be. I can't remember a single person. …

While I think that EVs are cool, the subsidies not only distort things but are essentially tax breaks for the well-off. It's funny to me how the whole ICE vs. EV argument just isn'…

But why use the marketplace when you can legislate? Actively managing things is ever so much fun.

I wonder if it wouldn't help if colleges/universities fissioned into more specialized institutions. By building gigantic clumps of education a single approach or philosophy drives …

Perhaps college abandoned them.

5) diverse ...and then you've got something. I'm actually surprised that I've never seen a tire with some kind of closed-cell super lightweight foam, some kind of aerogel maybe. I …

Perhaps it would simpler to encourage some companies to leave those cities (tax policy?) rather than to build/subsidize new housing.

another issue is that changing something, greenhouse gas let's say, is harder on the margin. The first improvements are cheap, the later ones aren't. Looking at an EPA webpage, I s…

I can't say that it has dropped much. https://www.statista.com/statistics/265491/chinese-coal-cons...

>This isn't a given, but American comedy relative to our palette can seem very fake I get it. Benny Hill: real Doug Stanhope: fake