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Programmers actually hate working on the same thing for longer than necessary. They like new problems and new challenges, as your identifying in your misguided take on always wanti…

Keeping the peace was a concept in both countries when they split and was the duty of the sheriff which still exists in both countries and is actually still very functional in the …

Police in england are an evolution of how the King's peace has been enforced, starting, very simplified, from when the King himself enforced it in very early days to delegating it …

Your sources very accurately reflect the history that slavery was enforced by the legal system and peace officers upholding it. They don't lend any credence whatsoever to the notio…

I'm not denying slave patrols existed, I'm denying this rumor of them being the root of modern police because it's straight up not true. The very simple historical trend that broug…

It's become popular to regurgitate that bit about police and slave patrols but it has no real basis in reality. That isn't to say that there isn't some example of a slave patrol th…

We've tried free and low cost housing for decades in the US and its been a disaster every single time. Every. Single. Time.

The CEO of Boeing graduated with an accounting degree. He is literally an accountant.

It's not a forgone conclusion that the ships will be there. In liquidation those ships have valuable equipment and scrap metal that could be broken down and sold, returning value t…

Honestly since I discovered the Stylus plugin for Firefox (Stylish for other browsers) powered by https://userstyles.org/ , I have dark mode everywhere and more.

No, the data is always coupled to how it is intended to be processed and useless otherwise. Integration is always a giant headache on projects that don't capture intent clearly wit…

Yup! And reference Ivar Jacobson's OOSE: Use Case Driven Approach for just how long of a history this successful approach has had.

There are no sure things. We don't like the current situation because its risky. But no risk no reward. If we wanted less risk our only option was to have done it way earlier - und…

In no way does it make sense to blame the courts for doing their job. The authority for these stay at home orders is by and large derived from temporary emergency powers granted by…

So did Vox, Washington Post, New York Times, and CNN. Nobody knew much in the beginning and that's completely fine and not a hit on anyone's credibility.

When 99% of people say "REST" what they mean is "RESTful" in that its a ball of JSON garbage. That's just a trade and 99% of people are in that bucket. That last 1% actually have r…

I had irritation during the first few weeks of wearing my fitbit charge hr but being a bit more diligent about washing it made everything go away.

Yes but when did it become a "city" versus just a caveman camp?

Same. I wish HN had a filter I could set up to hide entries form domains that do this. Won't catch one offs like this but I can add it along with NYT and other paywalls so I don't …

People always value quality, but don't view quality the same way.

My experience is that velocity slows because devs get so lost in all the accidental complexity of these frameworks and their hidden lifecycles (that they only barely grasp from the…

In modernity it has two meanings, but its roots are tied to terror. It's only been adapted as a colloquialism to mean "crap". Somewhat like how "aweful" and "awesome" have drifted …

This speaks volumes about the cronyist regulatory captured monopoly that the AMA has been able to install over the past hundred years.

What you call luck is actually a set of economic signals that has incentivized good behavior and teaching good behavior. If your Ferrari-renting, living above their means counterpa…

Oh gosh Spring Boot is such a dumpster fire. Dont even pretend its good!