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It should be obvious but, limitations, whether they be related to time, budget, or other resources, make stock assets desirable. For instance, commissioning a custom icon set rathe…

If "hyper-rational atheism" were the "Times New Roman of metaphysics", you'd think it would be far more common than it actually is. Going with your n=1 "I meet people like this all…

I definitely agree that there is a perfect world where designs are fully researched with a battery of user tests and for large companies like Facebook, Atlassian, and Lyft this is …

> In October, The Information reported that Bird was spending $551 per scooter with a goal of reducing that cost to $360. The full article is gated, but I'd be interested to know w…

Agree. As a primarily JS/React developer, I think there is irony if JS is held as a good design pattern in comparison to CSS with respect to reusability. Inasmuch as what are being…

Agree. Maybe it is more helpful to think of numbers as adjectives than nouns. Oneness plus twoness equals threeness. The part of speech is sort of irrelevant but it obviates a deba…

This also surprises me. If for no other reason than I would imagine that authors who are not guilty of plagiarism are interested to some degree in verifying that their original wor…

The "How Knowledge Work Happens" graphic is really what resonates with me. I run a dev shop and I hate time tracking for the complexity implied in this image. Questions come to min…

I don't entirely understand why some people find CSS so difficult to work with. I agree that it has its own challenges, but solutions generally aren't very complex. Global selector…

I wasn't really referring to economic value, nor was the quote or the cited article itself. The proposition was that people will do the least work for the most reward where possibl…

In your own citation: "Rewards kill creativity. Some twenty studies have shown that people do inferior work when they are expecting to get a reward for doing it, as compared with p…

I am in my mid thirties and would say I definitely do not think I am as sharp now as I was as a teenager. That said, I am overall much happier now. For me, mental agility has prove…

I'll offer a third opinion here, which is that the book is literally not possible to recreate accurately in film using current technology. The challenge is that in Annihilation Van…

I loved this book and I loved the movie too. I really like how it was sort of marketed/positioned as a Leonardo DiCaprio teen movie but ultimately when you see it, the film has a m…

I was searching through the comments for this one. 100%. I would even go further and say that an invention is more than the sum of the parts. There is a specific mixture that makes…

Imo, not all websites are web apps. You can certainly still create a static website using just HTML. The term "app" to me implies functionality beyond the presentational.

Personally, I hate exercising but I do about 90 minutes of high intensity cardio every day (with no end goal like grocery shopping; just for the sake of exercise). It's masochistic…

The author of the article uses "start up" to refer to a business less than 2 years old - fair enough. As someone who runs a business which falls into this category, it certainly is…

A.) Pretty sure that statement was made to assuage fears that people would be purchasing an expensive asset that rapidly depreciates in value, only to witness it becoming obsolete …

A bridge designed on purely utilitarian principles would not be 3D printed. Art makes us think about what could be - and imagine a future of solutions that are utilitarian in new w…

The same reasoning would also have applied to Netflix when it was a younger company, though (i.e. back catalog, staying in the good graces of licensors, etc.). Tidal has already be…

Actually the article (in the quote the replier posted) uses statistics to so show, evidently, that drug users commit violence less frequently than a control group; the quote does n…

Actually I believe it is you who misread the article. To pull a quote from the article: > "Both nicotine and alcohol are strongly linked to violence." The poster specifically refer…

Please see my profile and email me your resume and GitHub. I run a small Rails firm and all of our devs work from home; happy to share details with you if you contact me via email.…

It really isn't with respect to libertarian values in particular; all I am saying is that in a given scenario regardless of Ideology A, a watered down form of Ideology B that is cl…