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> Cross-site scripting (XSS) safe front-end frameworks like React are good because they prevent XSS. XSS is bad because it allows an attacker to take over your active web session a…

> In the US, 14.5% of men are 6ft or taller. Among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, 58% are 6ft or taller (4x increase) 3.9% of men are 6’2’’ or taller, among F500 CEOs, 30% are 6’2’…

> If you increase the capacity of the road system however that's accomplished and more people use it that's a win. This ignores the cost/benefit of constructing more car infrastruc…

> More lanes helps because now more people are able to get where they want to go! I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but no one wants to get to the 5 or 6 lane highway. They a…

The main problem with global emissions is with developing countries who are increasing their emissions while at the same time taking up a greater share of global emissions than dev…

> How different would the situation be if the US midwest and south were on the hotter side of the scale, rather than the cooler one? If the effect of global warming were felt equal…

People on HN have conversations about things they didn't read every day.

I have always struggled with just how difficult it is to retain long form text over HTML. Even if you block the ads, the hyperlinks and strange font choices can make it difficult. …

You have a somewhat justifiable position, but you lost me when you started talking about social media posts. In your proposed rationing of "climate relief" it shouldn't be focused …

I assume there is some particular combination of factors at play here: The US has a very advanced military and intelligence apparatus which operates globally. The US has an enormou…

I would put my money on a junior enlisted / junior officer not paying attention when they type the email to book their hotel over a government conspiracy to generate a Casus Belli …

XSS and SQLi can happen independently of the memory safety of your chosen programming language. You can use relatively safe frameworks or ORMs to generate HTML and interact with yo…

It would be beneficial to your understanding if you read the article. The title is slightly misleading. > Even though the dataset used for the unofficial record goes back only to 1…

>It encouraged workers to vacation with groups of relative strangers as opposed to their friends and families. This can actually work out well. I experienced something similar in t…

Buc-ees somehow manages to have gas stations with over 100 pumps[1]. I am usually skeptical of claims that the free market will sort it out, but it is easy to underestimate how pow…

I believe that is the point the OP was making. If you're ROI on employee X is 3% of the investors' dollar, the investor would simply buy a bond since the ROI on the bond is higher.…

This isn’t a new thing and there are demonstrable problems caused by private equity becoming involved in rental housing in Atlanta: https://www.ajc.com/news/investigations/dwelling…

It is difficult to determine if researchers are measuring the effect of caffeine itself or the effect of individuals taking caffeine to recover from the effects of caffeine withdra…

I am not attempting to take a side in either direction here, but I noticed something interesting about the format of your reply in contrast with the person you're replying to. The …

Do you use periods in your email address? For Gmail the email "myemail@gmail.com" is interchangeable with "my.email@gmail.com". Some services that rely on simple email auth do not …

30 minutes is not arbitrary in the context of search and rescue. When someone has fallen overboard on a Naval vessel in most parts of the world's oceans their survival time is as s…