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That's an entirely separate issue, isn't it? In my country (New Zealand) there are no requirements to have auto insurance. If you don't have insurance and you hit a million-dollar …

Credit scores are universally hated but they make it possible to offer lower interest rates to more people. Without credit scores, fewer people would have access to credit. Similar…

Mostly it's a consequence of population density. There's just not enough large cities close together. I think it's probably also correct to say that New Zealand could sustain a lar…

Just to be clear, Paul literally made tents. The meaning of "tentmaking" that you quote came later by analogy with Paul.

Another stakeholder meeting.

If each human body needs 0.2 acre of land to grow the food necessary for subsistence, what happens when the price of intelligence keeps dropping and one person's intelligence (even…

From the article: "it is not about preventing the ink drying on the nib."

I grew up in rural New Zealand, on a dairy farm. I agree that the needs of suburban and rural communities are very different from the needs of urban communities, but what confuses …

No, it says face due east and travel in a straight line. Sure, the wording could have been clearer, but you're seeing misdirection that isn't there.

San Francisco owes its growth as a city to the fact that the Bay provides a connection between the Sierras (and their goldfields) and the Pacific Ocean. Regarding Boston, the inter…

I've watched this being built and it's been really cool seeing how well SolidJS works. I was initially dubious ("No one gets fired for picking React", right?) but it seems like it …

I believe this implements an exact object type in Typescript: type Exactly = Shape & { [key in keyof Candidate]: key extends keyof Shape ? Shape[key] : never; }; Credit goes to Man…

This was written by Alon Levy, who is deep in the weeds of transport infrastructure and was writing for a technical audience. The habitual readers of their blog will easily interpr…

I recently changed jobs in Melbourne (senior frontend developer). I was told by multiple different people that the average market salary has dropped by about 5-10k since this time …

You're missing the fact that most courses (i.e. the ones that aren't wildly successful) have a large upfront cost. The marginal cost might be a tiny fraction of the price, but that…

Why isn't it fair for the author to be the one who receives the marginal value that they created? They were the ones who created the course, and that course would not have existed …

I disagree. I'm not trying to be inflammatory but it seems like your statement is similar to saying "rape is so harmful specifically because of our society's attitudes to sex". Yea…

My rule of thumb is that for decision-making roles, you want financial compensation to at least match the 'status compensation' (respect, status, etc). When the vast majority of th…

Here is one angle: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/08/31/stuttgart-21s-... In short, it's very expensive and it will quickly reach peak capacity and need expansion.

While you're absolutely correct that Australia hasn't had a recession in that time, this hides the fact that there have been periods when GDP _per-capita_ has declined. Or to put i…

> We still couldn't figure out how to push code to a protected branch without triggering the same/other workflows. If you include `[skip ci]` anywhere in the commit message, that c…

The biggest limitation I'm hitting with Github Actions right now is that there's no real support for queueing jobs up. Github actions do support a 'concurrency group' primitive tha…

> You can’t have actions that call other actions As of August 25, you can! https://github.blog/changelog/2021-08-25-github-actions-redu...

This depends how you pronounce 'h'. If you pronounce it "aitch", then "an HTTPS" is correct. If you pronounce it "haitch", then "a HTTPS" is correct. There's no universal pronuncia…