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Between this and the C.Ronaldo decision, I wonder if we're headed toward a future change to the automatic red card suspension. Part of what makes a red seem extreme for certain fou…

A tool that encourages bad behavior at scale is a bad tool. Blaming individuals for a collective problem leads to no improvements.

Bit of a double-edged sword, that. Worker-owned businesses are great, but if you instead make workers minority shareholders, you get... the modern retirement system, and inflated a…

This isn't just about residential rent. Commercial rent squeezes businesses, forcing wages downward and prices upward.

Turning inefficient, unreadable code into efficient, readable code often results in an overall reduction in LoC. High-quality code and high-volume code are highly anti-correlated. …

Mental health is health. Negative mental health impacts are particularly significant when your job is to perform mental labor. It's not defiance, it's reality: if you drag down my …

This really hit home for me: In some cases, workers are also being asked to automate the parts of their jobs they enjoy most, Hinds said on the podcast, pointing to customer-servic…

Every time I review a new PR to my codebase, I go "oh shit, these unit tests are garbage, they've clearly been vibecoded" and tell the contributor to rewrite the unit tests so they…

For the initial position, he has a case. Then he kept playing a market that was already fully decided, when the only step left was to resolve the outcome. I believe the relevant ad…

If your only motive is profit, then the cruelest actions are the most efficient, because you don't have to compete with people interested in morality. It sucks.

They seem to be converging toward an asymptotic accuracy level that is not particularly close to 100%. That is not good enough when you're trying to instruct engineers, particularl…

The ticket has subtle errors in its description that are only caught by someone experienced with the codebase. The code hides an exception behind an if-then-else that defaults to t…

Thus replacing the work of the upper classes.

"Lawful" as determined by the party executing the action is very different from actually lawful. The courts can intervene later, but they can't un-bomb a hospital. This is setting …

I've used a K4 for 6 years now and love it. The only thing is that I had to swap out the arrow keys for textured ones, which allows me to reach for them blindly and keeps me from l…

It's honestly one of his worst videos, but Jon Bois has quite thoroughly documented how many mattresses they tried to sell him as a result of him buying a mattress. https://www.you…

Any dataset involving police actions will show high concentrations in poor areas because that's where police patrol the most and where they're most likely to crack down on behavior…

That's also what NFT hypebros said.

Ah, the eternal handwave for anything the AI doesn't do well - it must be user error.

Bubbles don't pop overnight. In the aftermath of any collapse, you can generally see a pretty clear pattern of red flags (and attempts to minimize them or cover them up). Some part…

104.3a A player can concede the game at any time.

Most professional stadiums display the pitch speed, albeit usually on one of the auxiliary boards rather than the main video board. Thanks to enhanced pitch tracking in the last fe…

Paywalls can have the opposite of the effect you want. Implemented incautiously, they can fail to disincentivize parties who can make profit in excess of the cost, and it can succe…