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Is there any good reason why preferred stock exists? It just seems like another tool to screw people over in favor of investors.

I would say type signatures that don't really describe the state of the program. Especially when someone has objects with a bunch of optional fields that either shouldn't be option…

Keep in mind some people can't afford to make bad financial decisions.

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Nothings going to change until consequences for this behavior is established.

I believe this is related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

Sources on it being “climate denying”?

The thing I’m confused about from the article is that, if I read it correctly, the temple was found a few miles from the coast. Did the Nike delta use to extend that far? Or what? …

Did the website only give you all the option to agree to their privacy policy, and not decline? If so that seems very disingenuous.

Have you heard of this new db called dev/null? It’s super fast and web scale!

There are definitely UI tricks used by pretty much everyone when applicable. For example, infinite scrolling is used to keep people’s attention. There are other dark patterns that …

Same, all hail Google's new AI god (plz don't kill me)

I don't think the class of problems talked about in here are necessarily the biggest problems. Rather, it's politically motivated decision-making. Not in the sense of insert your p…

Thanks! I loved playing this game growing up. I had heard later on that it was a technical achievement, but didn't realize they made their own dialect of Lisp.

Can someone explain the significance of this to me? I'm not caught up on this topic.