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Best of luck with the weather!

That's true, but then the people you're selling to have to want to buy the shares. And if you're buying YES at 97%, you're not going to be able to sell the YES shares to anyone at …

It's worth noting that Polymarket (and all other prediction markets using money) has some fundamental problems that cause inaccuracy. Most notably here, the elections are still sev…

Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2 in September by $50. And that’s after the Switch 2 being priced $100 more than expectations on launch.

In many areas, this is left up to the parents - minors can't buy alcohol at stores, but parents are legally allowed to give alcohol to their children to drink.

I think it's a great read, but make sure to take it with a huge grain of salt.

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The idea of the parameter is stopping the attackers from getting on your system in the first place

The difference between weight and volume measurements could easily be a 20% or 30% gap. I’ve measured two of my cups of flour before and they were off by roughly that amount. Maybe…

Soccer is extremely widespread and played by both boys and girls at a young age (up until puberty or so), but there definitely is a gender gap after that. I'd guess that there are …

It certainly can matter for proper baking (which this recipe seems to be?), though for traditional pancakes I would never bother. But there's a reason that bakeries weigh their ing…

As discussed elsewhere in this forum, these exploits are being found by security companies in the first few days after they're published, that's just already too late. For example,…

One easy change would be that before any package can be published, it has to wait a minimum of two weeks in a state where it can be reviewed but it can't be installed without jumpi…

That’s a should , what makes it a will ? Capitalism can just be killed by AI.

That was the comparison, yes

Pyramid schemes are defined by the price and structure. A business that sells knives is a fine business. A business that sells overpriced knives by promising that you can then find…

At least for my software job in the US, and other salaried jobs I’ve seen, there are explicitly no hours listed, and it’s supposedly based only on your output. In practice though, …

My subjective experience was that it got a lot worse post-Microsoft. I could be misremembering though!

Two thirds of Europeans want this - https://www.techpolicy.press/almost-two-thirds-of-europeans-... > The figures were almost universal across all categories: 62 percent of those s…

Github has had horrible uptime for years, before agentic use was a thing. The killer was Microsoft.

If you want to do it occasionally, sure, whatever. I have a coworker who solely communicates in the form of screenshots of him asking Cursor my question, even when they’re question…

This is Java, but recently I had a case where one library depended on a version of an Apache Commons library, and another library depended on a different version of the same Apache…

> we go to usually around 2 birthday parties a week during school year That's honestly impressive, some 70 birthday parties a year, plus presumably some extra in the summer.

Speaking as someone who is a bit more familiar with your site, the variety of content you post is really valuable. I know multiple people, myself included, who have either gone fro…

That’s exactly the benefit of a law - it’s a forcing measure to require businesses to invest in processes to understand open sourcing, and to go forward when otherwise no one would…