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Your categorical error is that you think people are watching them to cover details in topics. They are a replacement for TV. You know, the thing that people used to watch for hours…

The vast majority of Vietnamese I know do not have an email account. So that would be a dumb thing for a Vietnamese bank to use as a recovery method.

> Elsewhere in the world, doctors can and do spend more than 12 minutes figuring out what's wrong with their patients. Where? According to "International variations in primary care…

Why would my government care less about me than a multinational corporation with billions of customers that isn't headquartered or listed where I live? My Member of Parliament repr…

The minimum price is enforced by Substack, unfortunately. You can make everything free but you can't charge, say, $1/month. It definitely pushes the platform toward writers who thi…

I agree. Substack feels more like Op Ed writers realised they could make more money by self publishing than by staying at a dying media company with multiple levels of editorial ov…

How do you know it isn't already at that price? Uber estimated that it costs Waymo $2/mile to operate. Google says they charge $1.60 to $2.60 a mile, depending on location and dema…

Nobody claimed there weren't a lot of WhatsApp users.

The rest of the world isn't on WhatsApp. What a bizarre claim. Vietnam uses Zalo. Japan uses Line. Korea uses Kakaotalk. China uses WeChat. Iran is Telegram. And in the US more peo…

Nobody ever paid $900 for a toilet seat. That was a statistical artifact caused by an accounting method called "equal allocation". "The equal allocation method calculates prices fo…

There's some weird online effect where people assume everyone they talk to on the internet makes essentially the same exact amount of money they do. I've noticed this most in a for…

"Analysis by the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL), which has been tracking the siege using open source images and satellite imagery, found clusters of o…

Congress are the ones who define what the FDA does. Blame them and the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. Congress could easily tell the FDA to do something differen…

Because manipulating billions of people a year is worse than assassinating 500 a year? Doesn't seem hard to figure out.

Not really true. See for instance this link "Opponents call the amyloid hypothesis zombie science, propped up only by pharmaceutical companies hoping to sell off a few more anti-am…

I always have wondered a bit, do people in other fields have this, too? Like do people expect the CMO at a pharmaceutical company to still be running clinical trials or whatever to…

How do you see that changing? Python introduce another breaking change than also randomly affects performance, making it worse for large classes of users? Why would the Python orga…

Guido stepped down over 7 years ago. How out of touch are you?

>> That allows you to concatenate and page multiple files at once like bat does? >cat is literally called “cat” because it’s intended purpose is concatenation. cat's behaviour and …

I use the syntax highlighting of manpages, fd, ripgrep, and git pretty regularly. I also use the fzf previewer with --range-limited pretty frequently.

> And behind the scenes, work on the next catalogue had already begun – a process lasting several months and involving planning, construction of interiors, photography and filming,…

That has git integration, like bat does? That shows non-printable characters like bat does? That allows you to concatenate and page multiple files at once like bat does? That suppo…

Github deals with a lot of bots/AI that open pointless/spam/bad PRs/issues/etc. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/158850 https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/commen…

While I'm deeply sympathetic to the original claim, I agree the evidence is lacking. All I really see is the assertion that AI means onboarding and coming up to speed is faster. Wh…

Even for cleaners it might not work. I know several people who tried this and the cleaner said no. I think (not sure) the cleaner signed some kind of contract/agreement with the we…