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I find it very much unsettling that you're portraying as capricious or arbitrary things that I would consider basic human decency. We're not talking about Facebook's font choice he…

All these high-minded ideals you're appealing to sound wonderful. Who would be opposed to individual rights? The idea of suppressing opposing viewpoints seems insane. And nobody li…

I'm a Photo (and Designer) user too, just for casual use. The only features I really miss from GIMP are animated gif editing, a "crop to selection" function, and to a lesser extent…

It may be a technically superior API but even so I'm not thrilled that if I want to stay current with MacOS updates past the phase-out period then I have to pay for a Little Snitch…

> The point of a compiler is not to try to show off that who ever implemented it knows more loop holes in the C standard, then the user, but to help the programmer write a program …

One note... what you're describing is the IOER rate, not the fed funds rate. But other than that you're spot on.

The Fed's move to cut to zero has been expected by everybody over the last few sessions. This is not new information. As for why they're doing this, well, monetary stimulus is real…

I see the point you're making from an epidemiological perspective but, because it's so important to people from an individual perspective to avoid contracting the virus, I have to …

The relevant part of the CDC quote was "because of poor survivability of these coronaviruses on surfaces, there is likely very low risk of spread from food products or packaging th…

I'm just going to quote the CDC again, because public health authorities are really the best sources of information we have and I don't want to participate in the "telephone" effec…

That study isn't saying anything contrary to what the CDC is saying. Or am I the parent that you're agreeing with, and you meant "regardless of whatever the CDC is saying?"

No. From the CDC: > It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly …

Usually the point is the account balance and gains at the top above the chart. It's been a few months since I used RH but I believe you have to touch and drag to see the point you'…

I didn't mean to imply that such precautions aren't prudent.

I'm excited to be starting in Mountain View soon but I'm pretty apprehensive about having an effective orientation and getting up to speed if everyone's working from home. I've rea…

Also Avro and Thrift, please!

Certainly not. DNS is a good way to decouple logical service names from actual machines. This is particularly useful with containers so that you can put your services wherever the …

> Anyone who still keeps a balance there is insane. Robinhood accounts are protected by the SIPC. Although with other discount brokers introducing free trading, I would tend to agr…

A couple more really odious offenders in MacOS- 1. Needing to hold the option key when right-clicking in order to even see an option for moving a copied item. I don't mind the use …

That doesn't seem like a non-serious criticism to me. They're trying to build something huge that's of immense strategic importance looking forward potentially decades. It seems ap…

I suppose if someone successfully created an ML-powered optimizer, powerful enough to level the playing field with C++ as the author suggests, in a higher-level language then they …

> It should, I hope, go without saying that nobody is required to run a bounty in the first place, and most companies probably shouldn't. Really? Most companies? That seems like an…