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betacat

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    Comment #35895625

    Did they die with expensive energy or from expensive energy?

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    Comment #35895617

    That's a continental average. Rates varied (June 2022) from nearly 72% in Rwanda to near zero in neighboring Burundi. You are unfortunately parroting a bad/malicious over-generaliz…

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    Comment #35895572

    Sweden tried to go the "herd immunity" route, realize they were about to take it hard on the nose, and changed course to match their European neighbors who were doing better. What …

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    Comment #35890224

    So many projects forget the MS in DBMS.

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    Comment #28810682

    https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-loved-dr...

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    Comment #28810660

    I've worked in tons of different ecosystems. You still need batteries in other platforms. I'm in a .NET web project right now where no only are the core libraries out of date, and …

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    Comment #28810616

    Those are people problems, not language problems. You can have a relatively stable, testable toolchain in JS.

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    Comment #20610564

    It's unfortunately easy to find sociopathic engineers.

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    Comment #20386124

    "Potential job-loss outcomes range from between about zero and 3.7 million workers." So, between nothing to a small re-training program. Go for it!

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    Comment #17490300

    How do you know how far to simplify if you don't pay attention to correctness? Simple has correct as a dependency.

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    Comment #17490292

    This generic expression indicates why "correct" comes first. "Simple" has it as a dependency. ;)

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    Comment #8427385

    It's also pretty easy to ignore a paper contract... until you get caught. Then, the level of triviality of circumvention doesn't mean crap in court.

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    Comment #8427020

    So, some files on your system likely have read rights but no write rights were I to log in. Is that evil?

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    Comment #8426997

    It's not a good argument. DRM is an executable contract. Contracts cannot enforce themselves. That is why we have police, courts, etc. The fact that it is an executable contract ma…

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    Comment #8197655

    So, what is a better language for learning? (Genuinely curious.)

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    Ask HN: Are There Banks Best-Suited To SaaS Startups?

    We are a US group in the process of gearing up for a launch. Obviously, we need to open a bank account with some bank somewhere to handle day-to-day cashflow and expenses. What is …