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I find it funny and sad that this is the sort of thing that people like to bring up as somehow bad and not the part where the Isrealites are admonished for not genociding the Canna…

As someone who half-learned to drive in Manila, the idea that they would use Filipino drivers as backups is ironic. For context, my "driver's test" was going to the back of the off…

Sort of, but the difference here is that it's really "blame the person who created the process, not the person following it". The people with the authority to alter faulty processe…

This is just the modern version of the parable of the talents.

Electric motorized bicycles exist, they're just called motorcycles or mopeds. The whole point of an e-bike is the limiter, and size restrictions.

> the first Germany defeat Assuming you're talking about stategic defeats, I'm pretty sure the Battle of Britain was earlier. Possibbly North Africa too, but that's more debatable.…

Standards are great, in theory, but a standards group can easily be co-opted by throwing enough people and money at it. That's basically what happened with DRM.

But the popular tooling for it (e.g. Visual Studio), isn't.

Yes and no. Youtube's moat is it's content creators. A gready algorithm might make them more money in the short run, but it would destroy their moat, as content creators migrate to…

Isn't this what the NSA is for? Also, I think we have plenty of reason to believe they regularly try to penetrate powerful companies, they just don't necessarily tell us when they …

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that's not what's happening here. What jccalhoun is describing is actually a reduction in the cost of living. The younger people from the city are moving …

> Branding makes structural typing work like nominal typing for the branded type only. That's not quite true. Branding doesn't exist at run time, where as nominal typing usually do…

The key point here is that the formatter has to be sufficiently advanced to know to do the right thing the vast majority of the time. Once it gets there, and once you've gotten use…

If users didn't care about alternative app stores, then why does Apple ban them?

> since it teaches new students bad habits, like keeping their heads down and focusing on instruments. I'm very much not an expert on this, but I thought that most of the time, at …

More accurately: probably referring to the length of their rope (and thus max pitch lengths). With alpine climbing, the actual pitch length can be all over the place due to a varie…

> I think building materials, labor, and land is increasing prices Denser housing provides more functional housing for a given amount of material, labor, and land. For example, if …

The next verison of GTA should be a game where you get a gig with a corporation called Rockstar, and all your jobs are focused around making them money.

> I doubt that many people under age 70 remember that personally. Jesus of Nazarath was reportedly crucified in Judea almost 2000 years ago, and people have all sorts of opinions o…

I believe they also collect location data when you're not using Google Maps for the purpose of updating their database of wifi locations (that they then use for location tracking).…

This is a good point, even without polymorphism there are risky refactors, but the polymorphism increases the number of potential risky refactors. On top of that, it might be a lot…

With cloud services, there's some expectation that your stuff is private. Copilot is like doing all your cloud development with an anonymous FTP server.

> Canada's charter of rights and freedoms isn't worth the paper it's printed on While this is certainly technically true, the charter is something of a representation of the social…

It totally depends. I do half our shopping on a bike, but I was very intentional about buying a place that was only a km from a grocery store. I could walk if I really wanted. The …

> Why not a park or other recreation area How do they get there? What might not be obvious is that the parks are often far away, because you can't afford to maintain many parks bec…