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So what you're saying is that buying from rando scalpers has increased risk & negative side effects? Cool. Then stop buying from scalpers.

If you only donated $50 to cancer research whereas your coworkers donated $200, would that give me the right to tweet that out to everyone? It's okay if I attempt to coerce you thr…

Ooof. I'd hate to be around that guy if he was organizing a fundraiser. If he's passionate about a cause and notices that you didn't donate as much as he had hoped, does it give hi…

I've got a lot of respect to the ppl who work on OSS, especially the maintainers since they're in the trenches tending to a lot of the daily crap we often don't see.

There's actual video footage of HK police officers arresting a kid because he had a flashlight in his backpack. They deemed it as a "weapon". Right now, HKPD is going on a rampage …

"unscientific" Technically, yes what he said is unscientific in the sense that he didn't conduct a long-term study. However, the guy has a degree in molecular biology so it's not a…

Yes, there have been male parents being discriminated against because some companies don't feel that men could ever be considered a "primary" guardian -- that designation is reserv…

I have to agree. I learned the hard way that HR is not there to deal with grievances fairly. Their job isn't to shield employees from bad behaviour or absurd demands from managemen…

The PLA will happily storm HK if the HK govt requests it... but they won't. The reason is money. If the PLA move in, the wealthy elite in HK will start moving their assets out -- l…

Not sure why people are suggesting shadow-banning doesn't work. Shadow bans have existed for a long time, already. Message forums and MMOs have used this method to deal with toxic …

This doesn't surprise me at all. I use to work in a place where your work output was constantly monitored and graded. If you have vacation time banked up and took too much time off…

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, one of the first things he did was slash the product line. There were too many options and choices that didn't really make a significant …

Geez. Give me back a physical ESC button. I've had to remap the caps lock so that I'm not fumbling around to trigger escape. If this was one of Jony Ives' designs, don't let the do…

A number of analysts have stated that WeWork is nothing more than a realestate company and owning those spaces are a liability. If WeWork were to go under, all the properties being…

I feel this has been the case with e-scooters in SF. People being disproportionately angry at tech companies for making these devices available. And yet, before them, you'd see an …

Boeing's problems had little to do with being a fast-paced startup-like culture. They were outsourcing a lot of their work to India in an attempt to save money. They cared more abo…

Uhh... ok so does this research take into account both China and Africa has been spending $$$ billions on reversing desertification? They've been using new technology to make deser…

The title of this link is so grossly sensationalized. Nothing has been set yet, and Quebec hasn't banned anything. Politicians just proposed a bill and will likely face steep oppos…

I feel sorry for this dev as I've seen people do a lot of cluelessly dumb shit over the years when it comes to security. For example, I worked in a place which hires co-op students…

This reminds me of my former workplace where even though they tout having a "balanced work life culture", one of the VPs outright said that employees who "only work 8hrs/day" are l…

None of the fonts in "programmingfonts.org" have ligatures so no thanks. https://www.slant.co/topics/5611/~monospace-programming-font...

I've worked in a place with a "high school" office culture and it was horrific. At the time, the company had no structured way of determining your work performance so it was all ba…

Google's official Webmaster Central blog actually lists out a very good & SEO-friendly method of setting up infinite scrolling that solves the core goal (retaining a scrolling posi…