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I don't see it as a relic, or a bad one. Some people can't just up and move to a cheaper location for a job they don't know they'll have in a year's time. How do you decide what to…

+1. Outside hourly contractors, if you have a clear sense of what impact/outcome you're seeking, time of day or number of hours shouldn't matter. Often I suspect it's a proxy for N…

Feels like a solution looking for a problem to me. Not only are phones trending away from being "phones" (rather portable internet terminals) but I'd wager the largest portion of s…

I don't think the main point being made is that deadlines are a PITA, I think it's that the trade-off is unmeasured. Successfully meeting a sales deadline looks the same as signing…

Curious as to why having an external IP/URL is a problem. If you're using almost any cloud service that has an API for adminstration (e.g. an API to tear down a VM), then is that r…

It doesn't "exactly" work that way. The instance doesn't disappear after the request is served. It hangs around in case there's another request (for a while), but you only pay whil…

It's extremely difficult to correlate this to long-term happiness or well-being. If parents can accelerate their time to retirement they get to spend more time with children as tee…

The migration of humans out of Africa? Usually land ownership emerges as a concept alongside the development of agrarian cultures. If you're going to spend time cultivating land, y…

Yeah! I should have rent control! I should be able to live where I want and pay below the market value. Screw the free market, I want to live in someone else's house and pay them l…

In which universe is inflation 10%? https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/consumerpricei...

The whole of the internet is a patchwork of ad blockers and ad block mitigations which come in the form of both aggressive JavaScript and the much-more-insidious passive aggressive…

Only if they're incorporated in the citizen's country. Many (many) are not

I assume it means snow melts, turns into water, then freezes again turning into ice thereby increasing the mass of the ice sheet.

Memory is a difficult one, especially in garbage-collected languages which have a habit of filling up the heap even when it's not used, so it's not always obvious how much memory i…

Is that really equivalent? Anti-vax arguments risk convincing someone to put their children, and those around them in grave danger on the basis of fundamentally flawed arguments th…

I think it's 1k not 4k https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72851

I've been down the flat earth rabbit hole a few times, and find it equal parts hilarious and disturbing. I'm not sure it doesn't affect anyone though.. Critical thought and activel…

There are numerous new and different opportunities that emerge which create different dynamics. Insurance companies might want to invest in tech that reduces accidents because they…

I'm often surprised by the number of totally valid reasons apps need to connect to the interwebs where you'd think they have no business. Clocks need to sync with time servers, dia…

If the hacker has your password, don't they also have the ability to publish a public key used to verify the signed package? It presumably would protect against distribution of a f…

It's not trying to hide the street necessarily, it's recognizing that it can't display the street AND the business name because the text would either overlap or be too cluttered to…

It's confusing that it seems like more than 1% of the population in a given area are buying houses that demand you're in the 1% of income to be able to afford; until you realize th…

We have a security gate and I installed a network-enabled lock for which I can remotely add temporary security codes that we then specify in the order from Amazon. This results in …

You nailed it. It's in Google's interest to provide the best user experience and a large part of that is optimizing for the "best" result. Whether or not a user returns to search r…

Wait a sec guys.. are you sure you had the turbo button on your machine active?