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What if you needed to link to a paper on your company's website? You'd link to sci-hub?

Or Google Buzz!

> Even at the larger sizes, a vector won't always look great. If the renderer doesn't fudge vector edges to snap to pixel edges, you'll end up with blurry edges instead of clean, s…

Why do you think so? 20 years ago, everything was clearly in 1X. Now, the Windows default for many resolutions is 1.5X and my Macbook is 2X by default. iPhones and Androids are at …

Pixel art is a fun retro hobby, but as the article acknowledges, "we create work for high-resolution HDR screens." Icons, logos, and illustrations in general should be vector-first…

There's also an academic capital, New England (Boston), with Harvard, MIT, Yale, Brown, and two dozen top liberal arts colleges.

Wouldn't the manufacturers just take over, and only survive in the lowest cost place for manufacturing? The inventors/designers would get nothing and no one would want to do that a…

Seeing the amount 50k written out like that today, it seems like a pretty good deal. It looks like less the amount of annual equity that an entry level software developer makes. It…

I think the fundamental question that everyone avoids answering is whether it's possible to tell race from appearance. If the answer is yes, then there should be some specific unsp…

I've heard this trope before, but it doesn't seem true to me. The federal government's day-to-day services include universities (through student loans and grant funding), travel (d…

The employer pays the same social security and medicare taxes as the employee and also has a cap on the social security part, plus in some cases an unemployment tax. If you want to…

The 37% and 13.3% are on marginal income, as I'm sure you know. The effective tax rate is much lower. California and some other states also have required disability insurance that …

But there's a survivor bias in picking US blue chips. Wouldn't it make more sense to look at the rate of return for equity markets around the world? For example, the Japanese blue …

I feel like there should be more outcry for credit bureaus and ISPs having even more life-affecting information than what is listed.

Yeah that's totally understandable. I'm not advocating for removing/demoting major media stuff or bumping up obscure sites, not even saying anything about the scoring algorithm sho…

Yes I agree. Like original content takes a lot of work to produce, and could get an extra chance by default. Whereas news articles, tweets, and content from large tech companies ha…

Looks like you made a calculation error or misunderstood your units. A credit hour is 3 hours of work, as a credit hour is "(1) One hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction …

There's a wide range of degrees between "unfoolable" and "can be done by a persistent student". I think the impression (at least my impression) used to be is that it was possible b…

This is a reasonable and balanced analysis of the situation. In retrospect, it seems like the reversion of the 190 patches was an overreaction that ended up causing a lot of confus…

In my life, this was an aggressive employee we hired who was not performing but also passive-aggressive to everyone, and at the beginning we were obligated to give them the benefit…

I'd be a little careful with your one-line dismissals of fields. Each field has hundreds of people dedicating their entire lives into it. It'd be offensive to them that someone who…