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It's a big shift because we have never as a society catered to the most cowardly before. Personal responsibility used to mean if you cared about something it was on you, now its sh…

I think it's a direct consequence of media and government trying to remove free will from the equation and present taking the vaccine as the only choice people have. If you're goin…

Agreed - the article is tips and tricks to use google effectively, not an editorial about the value of googling

That's not unique to cryptocurrency mining, there are other things that are rate limited by energy costs as well.

Re team structure, most consulting firms are a collection of mini pyramids, with partners or equivalent at the top that are supporter by project teams. Partnere are responsible for…

This is a question I have had too. One place is LinkedIn, but it suffers from the social media issue that it favors pre-digested flashy stuff, many people don't really go there to …

> There's really nothing to gain from nay-saying a new space like this, tbh. Dismissing a new technology is not helpful. But I think it's valuable for people that understand the te…

This is spot on. I have worked as a consultant doing reviews of a handful of diverse government departments, and leadership's priorities were always identical: justify headcount in…

I'm not familiar with this specific product. But this is really a dark side to SaSS, broadly defined, that I have not seen a good solution to. It's not helpful to have a service pr…

Not sure I completely agree, but I definitely do think this kind of project can be derailed by proponents who want to be uncompromising about it and don't think it's acceptable to …

Yeah, this is an underrated comment. I mean the origin of some of this stuff is to be inclusive and diverse, but ironically it has the effect of making people walk on eggshells all…

Wow, how unhelpful. I don't know the acceptable way to call this out, but how about focusing on substance instead of just bringing pedantic language stuff into the mix. I see this …

Safety engineering is a matching between user expectations of safety and actual safety. If there's evidence that this treadmill is disproportionately dangerous for it's category, t…

I think you highlight a weakness of formal "tell me about a time" type questions generally. They are more about testing the framing (spin) abilities of the candidate vs the underly…

Are you saying that all "equipment" sold should be in the category that it can safely be installed in a multi-use area of a home with kids in it? I get the idea that there is deman…

I agree that's fair (normalized for any past regulatory overreach). Products that are death traps compared with others in their category should definitely be called out. I did a go…

I've read a lot of the comments here condemning Peloton, and I don't think I completely agree. A treadmill is a big fast moving piece of gym equipment. It is definitely dangerous t…

"Non-contrubuting ideation" - people from other groups without real skin in the game who don't want to take responsibility for anything but insist on providing input on how it's do…

Is there anything dangerous about linoleic acid? I.e. is there harm in trying it, even if it turns out it doesn't work? Just curious how a trial like this would go. If it's essenti…

Python (in common ML frameworks) is really just wrapping well optimized native code. The overhead is very minimal. The advantage here is about easy access to the internals. I don't…

I had to look it up too, I had forgotten about it as it was not very interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24164470 Note that the link is to an article on HN, not flagg…

Really? In North American english, a flashlight is a handheld light, there is no thought of the toy you're referring to when it is mentioned. That "light" got its name as a play on…

Just for contrast its interesting to look at an example of writing a similar kernel in Julia: https://juliagpu.gitlab.io/CUDA.jl/tutorials/introduction/ I don't think it's possible…