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That would be quite a feat, given that Mr. Carnegie was born in the 1800's and died over 70 years ago. I'm convinced that 99% of the people who criticize or even just talk about th…

> Why do they think they are "helping" It's not about helping. It's about the feeling of clout. There are still plenty of people who look at Github profile activity to judge job ca…

While I personally agree that claiming any European identity label from 400+ years ago is silly, I disagree that there's any winning move other than ignoring the slacktivist noise.…

1. People yearn for identity labels. It's a core part of human existance. 2. "White" and "American" are problematic identity labels. People therefore often reach back toward Europe…

I was involved in a UU church for a few years. It's a weird organization, and very unstable, with another revolution sweeping in new leadership (and completely new culture) every 5…

Is that REALLY a lot of power, though? Reddit is quasi-anonymous, how "isolated" are you when you can create a different account in seconds?

"Don't talk about your kids at work, it's off-putting" ... then proceeds to talk about their dog every day. :) Yeah, a lot of this discussion does seem pretty myopic sometimes.

Nonsense. It's fine to be boring, and to have boring friends. This expectation that you need to be travel influencer or a deep philosopher in order to have anything to talk about i…

That has never really been part of the definition. If you look at that Wikipedia article a couple comments up, I only see two examples (i.e. stoops and parks) that are free, and I …

This sounds like me always complaining about "Past Me"'s tech debt. Or when tech debt is being introduced, my team jokes about it being "Future Me"'s problem. It's good for a chuck…

This never has anything to do with open source vs. closed source, or anything like that. It always has to do with prioritizing the cohort that's most likely to pay money. It's been…

Of course it does. Do you think the elites actually WANT massive tariffs putting a brake on GDP growth? Why are tech companies suddenly reversing course on content moderation and/o…

I only clicked this to see if Coolify could be a compelling option against my current setup, of using Docker Compose for everything on my VM (including a private Docker registry fo…

I believe that's the entire point.

Chris Rock comedy special, and the Tom Brady roast. Nothing on this scale, though.

Let's put it a different way. Are you as likely to see the same number of Pixel watches, while walking around the hallways in the Apple spaceship?

I'm sorry, but this is absolutely nonsensical. I literally just posted a screenshot showing that this is configurable on a Samsung. In fact, when I first setup this phone, I had to…

This? https://i.imgur.com/9uUJLaz.jpeg I've never seen any kind of UI where the "Home" button wouldn't be in the center. And you have the option of placing the "Back" button on the…

I can see wanting a smaller phone. That is an underserved market segment. But implying that phone marketing is patriarchy-driven is laughably absurd. Marketing for phones is probab…

> It blows me away that people actually care how much other people spend on something at all. It's an idle discussion thread about consumer electronics. Not an attack on the core o…

It's crazy that I'm the first person in this sub-thread to mention Samsung, when they are by far the market leader in Android phones. They have decent options at pretty much every …

Is that really a large subculture, or is that mostly car rental places cycling vehicles through their fleet? The rental companies typically buy vehicles from the manufacturer at su…

The point is not to balance a budget. The point is to rein in persistently triple-digit inflation. Everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too, but the reality is that you fig…

Same, and I note that the OVERWHELMING majority of other customers that I see at the grocery store or Target are still inserting plastic credit cards into the readers (I do think s…

> No idea what it tastes like. Then what's the point of including it in dishes like paella, where any fragrance will be drowned out by all of the other spices and flavors in the di…