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How revolutionary was this when published?

It's maintaining all the infrastructure required to manage a large dev team.

>"“He leaned close to my face and said, ‘Can I ask you something?’ I said, ‘Yes,’” Ms. Corry said in a written statement to The New York Times. “He asked if we could go to my dress…

Glad he is speaking up about this. Unfortunately the business model of the companies mentioned depends on their showing you what they think will keep you engaged. They necessarily …

I don't have much sympathy for the lecturer because it's probably safe to bet she has made a conscious decision to maintain her homeless lifestyle. I find it very hard to believe t…

Consider ease of implementation too as I'm a one man team. I know Go has concurrency built in but I've seen Java configured for concurrency as well... Just wanted to get the commun…

I actually did read the article. The article mentions one or two examples of mentally typical people who are homeless. Ok. I've dealt with many many more than that who are most cer…

What jobs are they working? How many jobs have they had in the past year? I can only speak to my own experience with the homeless I've come in contact with. Most are mentally ill o…

This is one of those common sense things that just hasn't been done yet. No good reason why. Email your congressman.

This is not a result of prohibitive housing prices or anything like that. Through my work in the homeless community I've seen and heard first hand that chronic homelessness is almo…

I'd like to see successful rain/night/snow/road construction/fog condition tests before I get in one

Agreed. Occam's razor is well applied here. Everyone else is investing in tech to get rich, I see no reason to suppose card carrying capitalist Saudi's wouldn't be driven by the al…

Well the US has around 320 million people, Asia has over 3 billion, so...

Be careful, you're rejecting the rule of law if you advocate for legal repercussions. What you judge to be immoral may not be judged to be immoral by others. When outrage of the ma…

But they are doing what's best for them without breaking the law. You cannot reasonably expect anything more from any actor in a society. In personal relationships we expect more (…

Don't fault corporations for exploiting legal loopholes to save money... They optimize what they must optimize as operating businesses, and if we the citizens want to compel them t…

What applications does decentralized consensus enable creation of, aside from cryptocurrencies, that are infeasible to make with a database?

I'm always told that one of the main benefits of a blockchain is that it enforces trust, or something to that extent. But enforcing trust in databases is not an open problem. Datab…

I understand there are some interesting applications of VR/AR that may catch on, such as teaching medical students or engineers about complex systems, but the broad commercial appe…

So you care about diversity in the color of someone's skin but not in what really defines them as a person? Or you think skin color defines people? And that all white people are pr…

I'm glad you asked! Diversity in musical tastes, religious and political ideology and affiliation, food preference (because new cuisine is always great to discover), experiences as…