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You are clearly right that responding to you was unproductive. I had hoped that you would simply see that what you had written was unhelpful, and acknowledge the same. I didn't int…

> Sadly, your admission that you didn't intend to address the lede of the story indicates that this might be exactly what's happened. Here, and throughout, I think you're confusing…

I meant it in this sense: > Capitulate v. to surrender often after negotiation of terms It is possible to surrender without a fight. In so doing, one avoids a power struggle, by yi…

> neither you nor GP directly address the lede of the story I didn't intend to address the lede of the story. I intended to address what I viewed as an important, common, and conte…

Via capitulation, it's always possible to avoid a power struggle. Game theoretically, this has some pretty obvious suboptimal outcomes for the capitulating player. I think it's an …

> What a strange lack of curiosity. That's kind of a rude thing to say, and not really necessary to the rest of your comment. > Framing the conversation of controversy around an an…

OK, but in that case is there a distinction between index funds and actively managed funds? Is this a risk that index funds are uniquely exposed to? Also, another thing to keep in …

I mostly agree, although it's worth noting that there are probably some fixed overheads of being employed that eat up some of the otherwise expected benefits. Let's consider a scen…

Eh, we live in the center of NYC, and we have gotten like three or four in the last year. A well-sealed apartment (copper wool + silicone caulk in all gaps) will keep out cockroach…

Interesting. So if you buy such a device for a gift, not knowing that it has a secret camera, and then decide you don't want it and resell it on Ebay, you'd agree that now it is yo…

> the person who sold it to you (the provider) is liable I don't think that's true unless they knew it had this behavior or were negligent in some way.

I think it's a not uncommon view particularly about fine art as bought and sold in the galleries and auction houses of New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo.

Open sourcing is usually pushed from the bottom. People decide they care about open sourcing their project at they push for it.

Some people are robots and never write errors. I and most C++ programmers are not in that category.

unique_ptr is super useful for documenting the point in the code that owns a given object, and for providing some compile time protection against multiple deletions. (If you never …

The article is about workers, not applicants. Nobody is disputing that a lot of people have been bamboozled into going to these code bootcamps.