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There are games designed to be addicting. Some even have gambling built in. Technology is just a tool.

Which is ironic considering the FBI and CISA just today announced that you _should_ use WhatsApp and not use SMS for two factor authentication. Although they point out the biggest …

Insurance premiums are different for different people and are decided by underwriters based on expected risk. What subsidy are they receiving on those premiums? They were previousl…

Those have been known to start smaller fires before. Management strategies for them and recognition of the conditions that give rise to them were implemented. This fire burned wors…

> simply nobody knew how bad It was a 100 year old C hook that caused the fire. Which failed in high winds. Which drove the fire. It was PG&E's responsibility to know "how bad" thi…

You've apparently never had power run out to a new property that's not had it before. You pay for that. The poles, the lines, the installation. The power company doesn't just run p…

> where consumers are incentivized to vary their consumption to help grid stability. If the grid is not stable then it needs upgrades. Automated austerity to cover a backlog of und…

There are no median families. There are a lot of very high wage earners in CA. You should really be looking for the mode here.

They're on track to build 12 _new_ coal plants this year. Why do people believe they're operating in good faith?

Give it a dark theme and I'd say the modern Westworld TV series.

> The government protects intellectual property rights and they protect physical property rights. Intellectual property laws are in the constitution and are structured to allow the…

> and if you have a bunch of third parties running bad software, consumers would lose faith in the platform altogether. Famously the reason no one ever used Microsoft Windows.

> How are they ok with cat litter full of feces just lying around for hours inside their home It's a furry animal that uses it's own mouth to clean itself afterwards. It's not just…

The music industry relies on government supported copyrights. Music is often unsaleable unless you have an existing exclusive contract with the label. Royalty rates are set by the …

> The default return type for posthog.getFeatureFlag is string | boolean | undefined. You could just as well say "how bad APIs make simple problems complicated and how you might st…

Perhaps those three different groups should just coordinate together, rather than individually using this data, and arriving at three different and possibly interfering conclusions…

> More complicated and expensive More durable for individuals in the face of large scale failures. You're paying for something real there.

> This brings back memories of the time I almost shortened "thousand kilometres" to "kkm". SI is such a senseless system. Unit prefixes were not a good idea. Did you move the decim…

> is doing a societal good by parking money in inventory they brought near you? Yes. That generates sales taxes. That generates property taxes. That pays for insurance. That pays f…

I kinda feel like macros!() should count.

True but I don't remember it being nearly as convenient to distribute those modules as it still required the whole build environment on the target and you still had to deal with pe…

> who only know how to glue together APIs I think there's a deeper truth here. Perl was notoriously difficult to make C language extensions for. Languages like Ruby and Python real…

The explosion of single character sigils and the taint of C++'s template syntax.