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Everyone's talking about goods being so worthless that suppliers don't want them back, but the answer seems different to me: blatant abuse of return policies must necessarily be so…

> This falls down when people start self promoting their stuff. Pinterest manages it just fine. And Reddit crossposting hints at the fix: sever content from specific subreddits and…

Yes, because organizing software engineers is like herding cats. A former workplace literally had us form a "guild" with standing meetings, and we still couldn't meaningfully coord…

> Don't waste your time working for the kind of company that would choose to hire through such a program. Why are you so confident you know the labor market? Why are the companies …

From experience, this is not dissimilar to the internship-to-hire programs large firms like Qualcomm have used. At anywhere even 10% of that company's size, any individual can easi…

Pre-history humans weren't scientists who would've separated this test out from the rest of their lives. You're thinking too literally. Pre-history humans would live close to their…

As long as a tyrant is unchallenged, they will remain a tyrant.

With the benefit of history, we know Ohm was more right than wrong. So -- even if these critics where hitting on a very real inconsistency of Ohm's research in their pursuit of the…

> One of the reasons Ohm’s work was not more readily accepted was because he used contemporary electrical terms that had ambiguous meanings. For example, he did not clearly disting…

There are usually "student council" programs that give a handful of elected students a regular audience with administrators, but most of these programs don't have any teeth. Gradua…

This looks really cool. I have a couple automated control programs that move little motors and such in the real world. These programs can make great use of `compare_and_set` and `s…

>> when you pin it to a service you're paying for. >So. A centralized service responsible for keeping your data. How is this different from literally anything else? Because in addi…