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Do you expect all memes and jokes to be absolutely harmless and 100% politically correct for every nation/culture/race/gender/ ?

You might be genetically blessed, others might be genetically cursed. Some are genetically predisposed to becoming fat. Its still a fact that they are fat. And being fat comes with…

This seems a slow death in the long term to me. 1. Customers that balk at this cost will switch to other cheaper/free vendors. 2. Oracle imposes even more onerous costs to maintain…

> JVM is written in a mix of Java and C++, let me know when they start rewriting it in Kotlin. This is less relevant today. The host blessed languages do have an advantage, but I w…

Both of my last 2 large bank gigs (kind of the last places you'd expect cutting edge tech) were going all in on Kotlin. New projects were Kotlin only, and there was active work on …

> Do you really want to copy from a development computer to your production? ... > Are you really sure that everything works exactly the same on different versions of GoLang? ... H…

If you judge the coding style of the early 1970s with modern standards, it isn't going to look great. 50 years is a loooong time. dmr was one of, if not the first C programmer(s).

> Imagine living in a society where saying either of these things is a banning offense. These tweets HAVE to be taken in context. It would be disingenuous to take every single one …

I actually have family there, and they have literally transitioned from near poverty to upper middle class in 2 decades. This was pretty widespreadc, but gradually becoming forgott…

In the "old" days, people had to actively look for or click through to get misinformation on platforms. Facebook's algorithm now shoves posts into user's feed, which is optimized f…

Are there any ethnicity statistics (or estimates) on actual applicants to yale? It's apples vs oranges when we compare to the US population.

> I have. And you know what, civil rights laws did jack all to protect me. I'm not you, and I can't imagine what your situation is, but I'll bet whatever precious little civil righ…

> The great thing about this, is that someone else will realize there is now an under-served market, and create a business to fulfill that need. Except that every other business ca…

In a your version of a free society, what happens when everyone refuses you EVERY single service because random-reason ? They sure as heck aren't murdering, stealing, nor threateni…

You can basically approximate a 1F change to 0.5C change (or 0.55C) for non scientific purposes. 50F -> 10C 51F -> ~10.5C 52F -> ~11C Unless you hate decimals, I don't think there'…

DMCA was a reaction to the digitization of media. People were sharing pirated media faster than companies could take them down. Some of these people hid behind websites that provid…

> Is the point that it's different than the rest of the world? I can see that point, but am I missing anything particularly bad about the Fahrenheit scale? Mainly that it doesn't m…

You're still assuming ALL of that remaining land area in the circle is habitable. Eg. India has 43% of it's land classified under "others" [0]. A large chunk of that 43% is not lik…

52M km^2 of land on our planet is habitable, after forests, shrubs, rivers and lakes [0]. Total land mass is 149M km^2. So only 1/3 of the world's land is habitable. That's actuall…

All the instructions basically boil down to: 1. download version X of go 2. Unpack to location Y 3. Tell your OS to look at Y Sure it's not a single command, but it's hardly compli…

"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", or so the industry said for decades. But IBM wasn't (always) the best, they were just safe bets. Until the world started changing and they w…

Just taking the parent comment at face value, does it really qualify as racist / slur? Yes, it invoked a country and a race, followed by unflattering statements. Are those statemen…

> Companies are giving their cash back to shareholders because each individual company thinks their shareholders can better allocate the cash, rather than the companies themselves.…

Professional sports today are the more result of artificial selection of people that have specialized bodies for their sport. Relevant TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CO…

> Banks have code from the 1960s still running The only reason "old code" still works in banks is because untold man hours are spent wrapping around it, working around it, and test…