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The cartels are also extorting avocado farmers for a cut of their profits. It turns out that, if you have a lot of bad people in power, they find ways to do bad things for personal…

> - public transportation being free also means that it will be used even in cases where it is both economically and ecologically a suboptimal solution. This is a problem because m…

Being a good programmer can also be situation dependent. The ideal author for code that powers a nuclear reactor may be different from the ideal programmer making a consumer produc…

Reddit is pretty much dead IMO. There seems to be a few substantial posts, if that, per day. Discord is way more active.

> Think of advertising as a way of companies to say "Hey! here's something we're proud of -- please have a look. Do you like being approach on the street by solicitors? Personally,…

Are you advocating for returning to the way people lived millennia ago? You’re free to do that. I’m going to keep enjoying penicillin.

The kids may not like the car, but I’m sure they like the lifestyle it affords them.

I find it extremely condescending to say you understand and empathize with something you have no direct experience with. Like put your money with your mouth is. Instead of telling …

Well, there haven't been many deaths that we know of. However, the behavior of the orcas seems to be a learned behavior. Obviously they're doing this for a reason. Who knows, maybe…

Just so you know, surveys are rarely truly anonymous at companies. Feedback may be anonymized, so, for instance, a manager can receive more honest feedback from their direct report…

Sorry, you don't have kids so you just don't get it. I didn't get it either before I had a kid. All of the reasons you listed, bad public transport, dangerous biking, safety, etc. …

And yet, the most expensive places to live in dense areas are single family homes. Like how much does a brownstone in Greenwich Village cost? 15 million? Clearly in any environment…

> Why are cars and phones giant these days? Is it because nobody wants smaller ones, or because perverse market incentives have distorted offerings in a chase for product growth? D…

That’s an interesting idea. You could define a custom type that has the type of [number, number] and combine it with Omit to remove methods that allow extending the array.

Have you seen the library runtypes for TS? It lets you specify types using a library rather than pure TS type syntax. The library code looks very similar to the normal TS type synt…

To me, it’d be pretty weird to enter a lifelong agreement with someone to share everything, but then as soon as you hit the lotto you start to squirrel things away on the side.

Do you have a prenup? If not, I think it’s important to understand that half of what she earns is yours and half of what you earn is hers. If you don’t have a prenup, you should re…

From your own link on countable sets: > Equivalently, a set S is countable if there exists an injective function f : S → N from S to N; it simply means that every element in S corr…

No, the mathematical definition of counting (i.e. whether or not a set is countable) involves mapping to the natural numbers, which doesn’t include 0.

Do you know the definition of countable? A set S is countable if there is a one-to-one mapping from S to N where N is the natural numbers. Do you know that 0 is not a member of the…

No, it doesn’t carry an implicit 0 index. Measuring age (in the West) is like measuring distance. You start at 0, but that doesn’t mean the first item is at index 0.

No, it just means we have a different notion of what a year is in regards to age. Similar to how different cultures can use different units of measurement for length, mass, etc.

No, we don't count from 0. That's like saying we start counting a baker's cup from 0 because you can have half a cup.