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Given the voting divide based on education, people in the U.S. are getting something else out of college education. I have no issue with shoehorning more liberal education into pri…

Gobbledygook. > The duty and role of a government is to act in the best interest of their citizens which that government represents. Truism. The point of contention is around what …

The use of EOs isn't new, and we're not even in the ballpark of high-water marks there: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/executive-or... .

But in this case, the term "slave" isn't being used, right?

Sounds like your experience is primarily with data stores then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology) It's used correctly in several of the cases listed here. Als…

If they were going to "leap at the chance" to suspend Trump, then why haven't they already? He's been treading in the grey area of their ToS for years.

Seems like a perfectly cromulent project to me.

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

I agree that the DDG results, especially for software development related searches, are often worse than searching Google or StackOverflow directly. So here's my workflow: 1. Searc…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law

JS and Python are not to Ruby what Ruby is to Java, though.

> But should everyone even learn k8s? Of course not. Different orgs will approach this problem differently. At my company, someone on our infra/devops team made pretty good abstrac…

> I think the argument is contrived because loop holes for murder don't exist for a reason, which is that the electoral connection -> legislative process essentially leaves zero ro…

> Simplifying the tax code, regulations, and laws removes the opportunity for well-funded operations to exploit the existing complexity. I think most people would agree with this s…

Can you explain why you think that analogy is contrived?

I read it the same way. Headlines are typically present tense. I wonder what caused the editor to write this one in past tense.

"...through conscious effort." Which is the aforementioned firing of neurons. Consciousness is not supernatural.

The alternative is to pay teachers a higher salary in order to attract candidates who care enough to instill critical thought into their students.

Because the same people who absorb this garbage have an influence on public policy. "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

Of course. But with all else being equal, would a manager be more likely to promote a scientist who believes in a higher power or a religiously agnostic scientist? The former impli…

It's an obviously an analogy. In modern society, is knowing how to change a tire more practical than understanding the basis of argument? > You tend to be good at the things you wo…

I apologize for not being more clear. I'm speaking specifically of scientific skepticism [1]. Without practicing scientific skepticism, Galileo would not have been motivated to gri…

No I didn't! The joke is valid. You must have been reading the King James version of my comment.

Surprise is subjective and I think my analogy is apt. > Religious beliefs in general are not incompatible with skepticism on questions within the domain of science; I disagree. The…

>In the US, its generally should, since its pretty blatantly illegal in virtually every case A law that cannot be enforced isn't really a law. Making a case for religious discrimin…