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When smartphones first started coming out a high school teacher took mine away - there was no blanket ban but I had undiagnosed ADHD and I wasn't paying attention during class. As …

I think this reflects on a lifetime of highlighting "think of the children" versus abusing women, stalking, etc. being swept under the rug. "Creepy" behaviour towards someone can a…

Personally, as a former meetup organizer, my health has not been good post-COVID. I have a lot less energy to do extra-curricular work or go out and socialize after work.

3. It's very hard to know what kind of compensation employees are actually getting in an acqui-hire. I've been involved in a few of these - money flows through the cap table, so in…

There's a lot of nature to protect in Antarctica, and there are very strict rules. This guy is selfishly flaunting those rules and just paying to get rid of the consequences. Consi…

My city has inductive bike sensors at specific intersections but many intersections (even ones with bike lanes) lack them. Cycling infrastructure is so half-assed in the US.

You would be amazed how bad drivers are at actually hitting the correct stopping position for the inductive loops in the ground that sense cars. When I'm on my bike stopped on a sm…

I worked selling refurb computers and this wasn't the case from Windows 95 - XP. The rise of TPMs and EFI is after that time so it's possible some newer system provides a way of ty…

55% net profit doesn't include NRE right? The thing about selling fewer, bigger-ticket items is that the non-recurring engineering costs are amortized over fewer sales. Not to say …

Who are "capable" people? Do you think if the cafe owner was born in the US they would be working at Google? Lots of people in North America work in jobs with positive externalitie…

You're making it very black-and-white when there's a lot of nuance to these kinds of discussions. A woman in a leadership role making difficult choices or shutting people down may …

Speaking out against the hype is frowned upon. I'm sure even this very measured article about "I tried it and it didn't work for me" will draw negative attention from people who th…

> You wait until the enemy starts charging with infantry and cavalry so they're not huddling under shields Why wait for a specific command? It sounds like as an archer maybe you co…

The fact is that politicians are insanely car-brained and nobody has any enthusiasm for improving rail infrastructure. Via Rail is trapped in this insane spiral of service cuts whe…

"The Word for World is Forest" and "The Left Hand of Darkness" are probably my two favorites "sci-fi" Le Guin books, highly recommend them.

> he apparently want to impose a new economic order on the world where every country basically becomes subservient to the US This sounds like some kind of right-wing conspiracy the…

> I feel that today having a nuanced view, is itself a rebellious act. So brave. Enjoy making six figures sitting behind a keyboard, acting like other people's rights are a sport n…

TFA talks about addresses being too long and the compromise to support variable-length addresses. 64-bits would have been fine. Grandparent is engaging in the classic tech industry…

The distinction between "big cats" and "small cats" is whether or not they purr. Ocelots and Cheetahs are wild "small cats" which can purr. Lions, tigers, panthers are "big cats" d…