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Couldn't disagree more. Failed states normally have a single department (the military, often) dictating without opposition what other departments should do. Here we see a functioni…

I don't believe it's cultural only, the same way I don't believe ethiopians or kenyans excelling at marathons and long distance runs to be a cultural thing. Genetics play a factor,…

Yeah, that was also a very early thing to evolve. So much that the ones that evolved it hardly could be called humans at all.

Do you have any pic of those random rocks you can share with us(using imgur or similar)?

It may cost $4 in the economy where the study was conducted, it may end up costing more in less developed regions.

Google issue escalation final stage is hackernews.

Great, free dopamine for my ADHD!

Does anyone remember the name of the music video in the examples?

No they don't... Catfish developers are precisely those who endure doing work that everyone else despises. Fred is just doing what he likes.

Oh, you sound too sure... Have you considered that maybe once not obliged to work anymore you could instead adopt a more entrepreneurial attitude? Perhaps exploring your genuine in…

What techniques can I implement to minimize my attention problema, or at least to minimize the consequences of them? I have most of my life struggled with attention deficit hyperac…

I have avoided to install Everything after I have witnessed the chaos that results from its use in everyone's folder structure. People use to leave files everywhere without any org…

Suggesting that soldiers cannot be heroes while on duty? It's rather common to see our cultures honor fallen soldiers and regard them as the archetypal case of heroes. Being on dut…

One of the best things are the comments.

I think Knuth is not doing this as a hobby. It's a source of income. This is sufficient to explain why he has spent so much time in this.

What would be the advantage of making the land private compared to planting trees in public land?

This is forbidden by github. The consequences of this is having your account suspended.

Atlassian is an Australian company but they own companies in the US so they comply with US embargo to sanctioned countries as well. In fact this was the first company who blocked t…

Yet it's easy to just keep a chromium installation for Google docs and Gmail and do everything else in Firefox.

This shows that humans can learn languages and get motivated by mastering them. This does not tell anything about the consistency, composability or orthogonality if SQL. Those qual…

Where can I read more about AdoptOpenJDK losing its TCK license? Is there any post? Any leak from their team?

I found this idea very motivating indeed. It reminds me not to take myself very serious and just start doing things. In fact thanks to your comments I started a new daring project …