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> [cheating] was a cultural difference that had to be respected What he meant to say was "they pay sticker price"

I'm not being smug about CA's grid. It has rolling blackout on hot days. Its problem is it doesn't let anyone build power plants.

> Cities can compete against each other to attract businesses - no? We've seen this with Walmarts. They get cities to compete for their stores. Amazon did it for HQ2. The problem i…

> Having everyone lock themselves inside and exclusively interact via video chat is not a good thing, IMO. Sounds like a Black Mirror episode.

There's an argument that you want consistency across the state. Having snowflake jurisdictions is a headache for businesses.

> SF is being gutted because the only equipment a programmer needs is a computer I think that's only half of it. The other half is a lot of people were only in SF for the money. Wh…

I'm sympathetic to concerns that some kids (mostly girls) are doing it because it's a trendy thing to do. I'm worried things like The Genderbread Person send the wrong message by g…

You're confusing misdirection for divide and conquer. Divide and conquer would mean the US splits up so China can be the superpower.

I'm surprised mass shooters all love ARs. A cheap plastic 9mm pistol with hollowpoint rounds is plenty deadly.

> Some of their stats resemble third world countries. Have you walked through the TL? Comparing California and Texas can be interesting because the states are both dominated by a s…

> my hobbies tend to be populated mainly by the conservative demographic What are conservative (and liberal) hobbies?

> No area is thriving right now thanks to the recession We're not really in a recession. Tech was probably in a recession in 2022, but Google and Meta both had good earnings report…

I saw this today. It looks at mass transit funding in big metros. Mass transit is interesting because it's a proxy for downtown health. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023…

This joke's getting tired. Jersey Shore did just fine, and that was a decade after The Real World showed MTV they should downplay the music. They just didn't have the next big thin…

People like to criticize subscription models, but this is why you actually want them. It's easier to keep everything mostly up-to-date than do a big migration every decade, and if …

This isn't just a tech thing. People redo their kitchens and bathrooms every so often because they start looking dated.

We also set up concentration camps for Japanese-Americans.

The best part about over-treating as a dentist is there's no evidence, and the patient might never know.

Once I sunk a day into a take-home test. It went well, and I got to chat with a manager for half an hour. They said they weren't interested with no added context. Setting aside tha…

The yellow flag to me is less the job hopping and more that you were only obviously successful at one company.

> is there anything that isn’t meaningless, then? Invert a binary tree.

> The exploited host workers then do everything for them, from taking care of their brood to protecting and feeding them. Such a relationship between species is called obligate par…

> I suspect what's going on here is that in music, it doesn't matter if you understand it right the first time. So there's this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdz5kCaCRFM and more…

Realizing no one's going to change a language with 900 million speakers, do you think it's because there's a lot of ambiguity, or is it because it's a cognitive load people aren't …

But it's the wrong straw. The reason people played with their Oculus for a day, then left it on the shelf wasn't insufficient model training.