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> forces the other players to reduce their prices or shed customers. Excpet they revert back to old prices once the competition is dead. This is textbook predatory pricing. > It's …

(1) Real Mathematical Analysis, by Charles Pugh is a wonderful introduction to pure mathematics for a mathematically inclined engineer. The back cover starts like this > Was plane …

Yup. Great article overall until the bit you quoted. Sure, it has the _potential_ to transform personal genomics, but the (insanely cool) T2T project is indeed almost exclusively a…

I've heard this a lot. I think there are two problems with this. First, you need massive adoption for the "social" part to be at all useful, hence only the few big social platforms…

It's not ridiculous at all. > They stop using it if the results are poor. These are not laws of nature. There are so many reasons why most people would still use $X even if the per…

The document you shared is a great example of the education system acting as a vessel for inculcating children with sterile, polite thoughts. I can imagine the room full of well-me…

A lot of morality is of course fashion (and "relative", if you want). But failure to articulate universal moral rules concisely, doesn't mean there's no concensus. Circumstances an…

> Such obviously false statements might be treated as jokes, or at worst as evidence of insanity, but they are not likely to make anyone mad. The statements that make people mad ar…

> Asking "Any Java experts around?" takes little effort which is precisely why this is annoying: it's asking for a social commitment without putting any effort in. It also reaches …

I've been a happy FastMail customer for 8 years now. Migration from Gmail was a breeze too! The only feature I've missed in all this time is schedule-send which they seem to have i…

OP listen to this. And go read So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport. You'll see stories of people in situations very similar to you. Source: I rebeled in my early 20s for a…

CLRS is the text, but for a more gentle introduction see Grokking Algorithms.

> Natural selection is what stops DNA from becoming non-functional [...] Over the extremely long run regions of the genome that have no biological function should disappear, no? If…

> as we have more and more interdisciplinary scientists jumping in at the interdisciplinary level, we're already in an era where diletanttery (especially in trendy science mashups …

Except for PCR has been around for decades and its basic principles are taught in first year molecular biology courses. Whereas Theranos' newfangled secret "innovation" was ... wel…

(Not grandparent commenter) I think you're usually right but I doubt it makes a difference at the scale of 2-5 objects created in a test case. The big game changers IME are in-memo…

There's good discussion in this thread about when and why to use attrs, pydantic, or stdlib dataclasses; I have my own thoughts too. But all I can really feel is gratitude for all …

I love this! And have been doing something like this for years. The zero-effort part is key in my IME: if it's not zero effort, it won't stick. And if it doesn't stick, you won't r…

Having experimented with a bunch of different ways to organize complex django settings, I think what OP suggests is a local optimum that's hard to scale and doesn't solve a bunch o…

I used to struggle with this a lot. Here are a few things that have really helped me over the past decade: 1. This is incredibly common. Some of the most productive people you know…

This so much. This would be on the syllabus of the missing Employment 101 course. Very few people I've seen try to evaluate the company as much as they're being evaluated. We all g…

Do you really think Facebook has a soft spot for Antifa? (whatever that amorphous "organization" is) Tip: there's a toggle on the page where you can get the raw text of the documen…

> Just wait for antivaxers to hear 'DNA' and go wild. Sure the already anti-vaccination crowd will have more reasons to be peeved and more talking points to scream about. But would…