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> This is obviously the right move. Could you expand on this? Is this obviously right because it's FB being boycotted? I don't use FB - is it noticeably worse than youtube, reddit,…

A lot of contractors are incorporated, so the contract is not between google and the contractor, but between google and the contractor's corp (sometimes another agency in between g…

Do you have a source for 'cigarettes boost T'? Is it the nicotine or some other chemical in cigarettes?

The problem is that this completely ruins any competitive FPS on console. The keyboard/mouse players have a huge advantage.

Is the Earth's magnetic field affected by its rotation speed?

What prosperity does work off-shored to 3rd world sweatshops deliver? Greater profit for a tiny fraction of the population, and increased financial insecurity for the rest? Creatin…

You don't need set theory for numbers, enumeration or arithmetic.

Set theory constructs the natural/ordinal numbers from it's axioms, but set theory is a man-made formal language that didn't exist until the 19th century, so talking about what com…

I assume facebook still pays for all views it counts, so there is no downside in terms of ad revenue for publishers.

I'm not sure our brains are capable of continuously learning for 1000 years without becoming useless. Also, there is a dystopian version of immortality - a tiny fraction of elites …

> it terrifies me (esp everything going wrong already in our world) that we're not being more critical and cautionary toward life-extension.... Don't worry bro, you'll die and all …

> But the number of carbon atoms we release into the atmosphere as CH4 is much, much less than the number of carbon atoms we release into the atmosphere of CO2 Parent's point is th…

If the company says you get unlimited pto, and actually delivers on it's promise, why couldn't you just take off for like 6 months every year? If you actually need to get approval …

Maybe the revolution hasn't come for the publishers, based on ebook sales numbers, but the people I know who regularly use ereaders download most of their ebooks for free.

I see this happening pretty much every day for political news. I don't keep track of a list, but here is a recent example: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/us/politics/bernie-san…

> There's even corruption in democratic governments that are directly accountable to their citizens every few years (via elections). Imagine if this kind of 'accountability' was ap…

What? It's just a simple fact that Node, Chrome and Chromium all use V8 - which is an open source BSD licensed project.

I can listen to music when doing easy/repetitive work - it actually makes it seem less dull. When working on something hard or reading/learning something I can't listen to music.

> For frontend, you use transpilers or polyfills to smooth over the differences between browsers. You then package these up, with rollup or webpack or whatever, and deliver to the …

> Various ES features will have different levels of support in different layers, and this is especially tough once you take into account the various transpilers or polyfills, and t…

JS in Node and JS in browser is not that different. It's the same language, using the same JavaScript engine (v8 for chrome). The difference is in the APIs provided by Node vs Brow…

One big feature of Prolog that relies on lists are DCGs (Definite Clause Grammars)[0]. Lists are such a ubiquitous data structure that not having them in a language would just be p…

> Go programs have not an obvious weak point... Lack of generics is an obvious weak point in Go. > Go filled the blank of lacking of a static language which is still much flexible …