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> Midway through the day, though, we ran into a huge problem: it turns out bus schedules are different on Sundays, and more limited. Which meant we couldn't actually go to our prim…

What sort of legitimate requests do you get refused?

> SpaceX was pushing the envelope of "interplanetary" travel/species We already have a perfectly usable planet. It just need to be taken care of.

> Junior devs have always been useless. You used to give them tasks that take them a week or two even though a senior engineer could do it in a couple hours, not because you wanted…

Public transportation is the backbone of a functioning economy. It doesn't need to be fully paid by riders precisely because the rest of society benefits from it multiple times ove…

Most of the world's population lives in places where trains and public transit works far better than cars. Density doesn't move around, people do.

many services that require SMS 2FA outright won't work on VOIP providers

the transfer fee isn't the main appeal of Wise, the currency exchange rate is. I've never seen a bank that offered anywhere near close as theirs.

> Honest question, what does Bandcamp provide? Actual money going to the actual people who make the music you listen to on spotify.

The killer app of cryptocurrency is tax evasion

Classic Faustian bargain. Offer people money, obtain control in exchange.

I'm pretty sure that this took more than 1 junior engineer-month.

I love that you're being downvoted for saying something so utterly non-controversial. It's almost as if the fact that there were large matriarchal societies inhabiting America for …

"at the launch" mac os at large has a quality problem. I have gotten more kernel panics on my personal and work laptops in the last 6 months than I have on my windows machines in t…

> I think that the main reason for that is that they have their own French speaking view of the planet in which they happily live. Americans also live in their own universe. And so…

China has better rail infrastructure than the US, and is much bigger as well.

"Why did you FedEx your SSD to the destination? Do you have something to hide? You're gonna have to follow us."

Only if your time is worthless.

> I find PowerShell a delight to script in, but terribly cumbersome to use interactively. That's because you can't be both ! The shell wants to be both an API and a user interface,…

Yep, that guy totally seems like a reasonable and unbiased POV: https://twitter.com/ArgBlatteTalar/status/831600862866898954

> The reality is that these days there generally isn't any packet loss I don't know which reality bubble you live in, but this is utterly false. I live in the country side and get …