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Pronounced "foo-chee-BOW"

> something nearly unheard of even after all these years It's not "nearly" unheard of, it's completely unheard of apart from in Pelé's case. He remains the only player ever to have…

How often does that happen though? I'm straight and I don't recall ever being asked about my family or love life in a job interview. Not that I'd keep it secret if asked, but why t…

I'm far more experienced with React function components than with class components, so I'm curious, what are some of the problems with class components and how did hooks solve them…

Am I the only one who had no idea until now that "peloton" is an existing dictionary word and not just a brand name?

Ideally we'd wait until we have evidence of who did it and what their motivations are, rather than just jumping to whichever conclusion fits our existing biases.

In the UK, if you want to kill yourself by overdosing on paracetamol, then you're forced to visit several different shops (because you can't buy more than two packets at once) then…

It's accessible in that you don't need to be terminally ill or get your doctor's permission. If you want Dignitas to kill you, they will.

Okay, I'm not Canadian, and I'm not going to pretend to be intimately familiar with how things work there. But then I read appalling anecdotes like this one: https://toronto.cityne…

On the other hand, I have a loved one who struggled with suicidal thoughts for years and told me that if they'd lived somewhere like Switzerland where euthanasia is easily accessib…

> I’d rather there be some cases of coercion than people who want to die being denied the chance. No-one is "denied the chance" to die if they wait long enough and I'd much rather …

> Anyone who would consciously sacrifice another human being for something inanimate like "infrastructure" is sick in the head You need to read more history.

I'm glad someone else shared this. I used to be very much in favour of legalised euthanasia but I'm a lot less certain after reading about what it's actually looking like in practi…

Your death affects other people.

The blanket statement is obviously untrue. For example: people are forced to obey the law. But if you only want to talk about suicide: we already "force" suicidal people to stay al…

It's already happening in Canada: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-canada-euthanisin... Sometimes the slope really is slippery.

> It's immoral to force someone to do something they don't want to do. It's trivially easy to think of counterexamples to this statement.

> America and the west as whole is not actually significantly different from China with stuff like this. As someone who has spent many years of my life living outside "America and …

Switched to Elixir/Phoenix a few years ago and have never looked back. Absolutely a 100% improvement on Rails in every way (except the availability of work!)

I don't get what you're saying. It's not obscure at all that black ink denotes profits and red ink denotes losses - "in the black" and "in the red" are well-understood English phra…

"Spade" can mean "black person". Although I'm not sure whether it's considered offensive and I've never heard anyone use it to mean "black person" in real life... was it more commo…

Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story.

That's a good story, but according to Wikipedia this etymology was invented after the fact and isn't the real origin of the term (which is somewhat obscure.)

Stanford also contains "Ford", a possible reference to the notorious anti-semite Henry Ford. I propose renaming the institution after a more acceptable historical figure, one whom …