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Everyone knows 'goto' is bad, so a language like this needs 'comefrom'

Only 6 days? That's impressive!

The problem is that low density urban areas are subsidsed by high densisty urban areas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVUeqxXwCA0 etc …

Does anyone actually like using JIRA? Or Confluence? Or any of the Atlassian products?

I see where you're coming from. From where you sit Jupyter is a language agnostic tool and so in. But the fact that there's dozens of solutions in this space is surely a problem? I…

I work with a bunch of 'data scientists' / 'strategists' and the like who love their notebooks but it's a pain to convert their code into an application! In particular: * Notebooks…

Won't help unless we have open chat protocols. All the open phones in the world won't help if you use closed-source WhatsApp / Facebook. And you kinda have to if you want to talk t…

Except that's not what's happening. They thought they were working for a "good, solid, respectable journal". Turns out their employer wasn't as respectable as they thought, so they…

If just you look at flight vs train then sure the flight will win. But the train goes from the city centre, and includes a night of accomodation. If you look at taxi + flight + tax…

There's a healthy power market - so the providers can and should work out a way for their clients to exit their contract and for them to sell the electricity elsewhere. Sure the cl…

Tether fails bond pricing 101. If you have an IOU from the US government for $100 it's worth about $99 on the open market. If you have an IOU from a highly rated US company (e.g. F…

I've been wondering if such an extension exists! Thanks for telling me about it.

What about car insurance? Is it ok to charge more to insure teenage drivers?

How do you think the process would have gone if you agreed to pay bribes?

Historically gitlab had a stages system: "Do all your builds, then all your tests, then all your deployments"

Part of the problem is derivative works. I don't think even Disney cares too much if people stream Steamboat Willy - but if MGM Studios wants to create a new Mickey Mouse film that…

Seeing this list and its mix of Email / Phone / Fax / Web systems - and this is only for 50 companies - makes you realise why GDPR-like regulations are needed!

Perhaps this is going the away of Amazon Prime - which started off as subscription for faster shipping but grew to be a one-stop subscription for various things?

The only thing that's annoying is that with GDPR I have to do 3 clicks on every website. What I want is an addon where I can mute / suppress the cookie overlay. Though I guess with…

This may all be true - but it fails to explain why it crashed now (as opposed to 2 months ago, or 2 months hence).

Neither am I suggesting that "don't respond" is the right thing to do here. However SWAT teams must know that uncorroborated calls are almost certainly fake, and they should act ac…

The problem is that we can't help the extreme case. We need to be realistic. If we really wanted to prevent every hostage situation we could have a police car parked on every inter…

I always wonder what proportion of uncorroborated calls that trigger SWAT raids are actually genuine. I'd have thought that live hostage taking is extremely rare - even in the US. …

I'm not going to claim that finance isn't a clusterfuck - but paying people to store things securely isn't exactly strange. If anything the amazing thing was that people would pay …

Sweeden had a much more interesting solution to this problem. Usually small packages like this avoid VAT because it's not worth the administrative hassle to deal with them. Sweeden…