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> the US military absolutely could control Hormuz. I'm confident it's quite capable of it. It's that the US public wouldn't support the immense cost in lives and treasure it would …

The newest AI Agents are much more advanced that "FAQ bots", they kind of have hybrid deterministic and non-deterministic flows in how they handle customer requests, depending on t…

Is this really "additional"? do you not do design docs/adrs/rfcs etc and talk about them with your team? do you take any notes or write out your design/plan in some way even for yo…

Where did they say you can't be "investigated without your knowledge" ?

Calling European countries "freeloaders" is such a one dimensional way of looking at this. Europe "outsourced" most of its defense to the US because the US wanted it that way, for …

Are State elections also badly affected by gerrymandering? I have only ever seen examples of it at the Federal Election level, so wondering if your first point is actually complete…

But the claim specifically, was that the statistics are flawed NOW with an implication that they were not flawed before. Not sure you can do much with that in a discussion/argument…

Most likely they are actually, every country will have a certain "% of GDP" threshold where once they go above that number, it makes more sense for them to spend the money in their…

People struggle to wrap their head around logic like yours because it is essentially just being pedantic. - Before the war the Taliban controlled Afghanistan. - The US (+ Allies) i…

> Sure, Russia gained some territory, resources, potential conscripts. You just "hand wave away" gaining territory the size of the 2nd biggest country in Europe after Russia, Trill…

I worked at a company with a process like that when I was an "Engineer" looking for a promotion to "Senior Engineer", at least for me it felt insulting that I had 3 years of perfor…

It's likely because that's where "Wordle" used to be hosted before it moved to NYT

"most people’s leisure time consists of trite activities, steered by indulgent appetites" Isn't this you "judging"?

"Do they really though? That's really the owners getting paid that, not all the workers. And a lot of that is really valued on the potential rather than what was actually produced …

What if it was rotated among "everyone"? I think people would be happy to do grunt work for a week (probably even a month or two) if it meant that they get all the rest of their ti…

Ah ok, I misunderstood your comment. Glad to hear Go has had such a big impact for you.

>Go is a phenomenal language and I'm not really sure where I'd be without it, my company basically wouldn't exist, I wouldn't be solving the problems I am. I don't want this to com…

How did you find the learning curve with notion? I found it on here a few days ago and thought it looked amazing, gave it a few days trial but now I feel like I am just wasting tim…

> Spoiler alert: the best setup is to hole up in a nice town in Canada working remotely for a client in the US. Do you have experience with this? :)

You should avoid any flights with the new 737 MAX then. I flew on it recently and I have never been so uncomfortable on a flight and I am not tall (5'9)

Yes. You can see it here: http://imgur.com/a/1soW3 If you just make the browser window small it will happen.

Hah "Siobhan".....are ye Irish? Just some things I noticed quickly. Some kind of progress or status bar could be added when doing an import. I've imported a CSV I exported from Jir…

When are people expecting this IPO to happen? Early 2017?

I thought the point of basic income was that EVERYONE gets it? How can that be exploited? Some will get a basic income and choose not to work and continue to live, others will choo…

It's strange, nothing in the hosts file, any ping says it can't find the host http://techblog.netflix.com/ , or even anyone of those check ip sites says the same. Asked some work c…