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An integration test is a type of software test that makes sure different parts of a system work properly together. So HBO has some integration tests that make sure their system can…

It's funny, I usually have the opposite experience. I try to use DDG as much as possible for ideological reasons, but I find myself coming back to Google search most of the time be…

Absolutely, but you write like we don't have startup CEOs doing stupid immature things [1] frequently... [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026872652290379776

Not sure about anyone else, but I lose my sense of smell regularly when I get a cold. (Not due to being stuffed up -- even when I inhale through my nose I smell nothing.)

Does this not happen to most people with regular colds? For at least the past 5-10 years, I've noticed that whenever I get more than a very mild cold, I completely lose my sense of…

Why do you only care about the lifestyles of people living in developed countries? Also, even if we decide that we don't care about 4/5 of the world, increased flooding and wildfir…

Can you imagine the misery and chaos if someone on the flight desperately needs the restroom and there isn't one?

I've heard it called the foot-in-the-door phenomenon. https://www.simplypsychology.org/compliance.html

In many (most?) European languages the day is spoken before the month. e.g. le dix-huit août, deux mille vingt

> Being a driver isn't predicated on mistakenly calculating your odds of winning big Not exactly, but there are parallels. Most drivers don't take into account the costs of wear an…

A couple of years ago, the Quebec government introduced additional restrictions on ridesharing companies. Uber got up on their soapbox and said they were pulling out of Quebec. The…

MLM companies continue to be popular, despite the fact that the majority of people lose money by participating. I agree that portions of the left can be paternalistic sometimes, bu…

It sounds like the main issue you're addressing is that mortgages need to keep getting paid. New York City suspended mortgage payments however, so how were they able to do that wit…

Most of the people for whom $700/month for health insurance is unattainable are not spending $700/month on car payments. There's bound to be some overlap, sure, but let's keep the …

It's possible they're exaggerating to get a good sound bite to get people on their side -- "medical information" could refer to health insurance enrollment forms, and "financial re…

They lose their status when the school goes online, since they are not currently enrolled in in-person classes. They will probably have to apply to reinstate their status in order …

If your internet provider dynamically assigns IP addresses, they may have been downloaded by people who previously had your current IP address.

you've got a typo there, one of your millions should say billion

Journalists are ethically obligated to keep sources anonymous once they have promised anonymity. They are not obligated to offer anonymity to every source.

For the record, the WH response is false -- the red triangle is not a symbol used by antifa.

I'd be curious if you could link to something that shows that usage. I've never seen this symbol associated with antifa anywhere.

I don't think it's fair to say this "definitely" isn't Robinhood's fault. They deliberately market to beginning traders and make these kinds of complex trades available to them. If…

Oh yeah, I agree with you. I was replying to the above commenter about the Jetbrains subscription system and trying to understand how it differs from a pay-to-upgrade system.

But this only works if you're releasing a new version every subscription period -- and in that case, it's equivalent to upgrade pricing.

Ok, maybe this is where our disconnect lies -- I also have friends who consider themselves "sluts" and have a lot of sexual partners, but for most of them it's coming from a very i…