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I don't trust the results of anonymous online surveys, nor should you. It's amazing that any organization purporting to be journalistic would report such results, but those are the…

For the record, I didn't say any of this. It's not controversial to talk about your experience. It's certainly controversial to generalize your experience across an entire industry…

Edit: removed. I should take my own advice.

In this sense, this person is talking about empiricism as the outlook that only what can be measured matters. Hours spent in meditation can be measured, but your embodiment of righ…

In the case of MasterCard that might be true, but the law applies generally. It's not inconceivable that another piece of critical infrastructure could be provided by a country who…

What does `uname -a` return for you?

I cannot understand how, almost 20 years after it was first created, a default install of WordPress still falls down gracelessly when faced with any significant traffic. There's no…

In case anyone else has no experience with diabetes and is looking for key quantities to understand the context here: - "Most people with diabetes need at least 2 insulin shots a d…

Almost nobody understands software then, by this definition.

Disclaimers have become magical incantations of a litigious, safety-obsessed culture.

Seems like the position you'd expect of a country founded on a mistrust of centralized, remote authority.

Yes, well on the one hand you shared evidence of actual outcomes and presented that as meaningful, and that's what I challenged. Weaving theories about how social benefits are good…

All of which is an entirely separate set of points from the point you were making about the number of billionaires.

I'm not familiar with the wealth situation in Scandinavia, but I just want to point out: what matters is the numbers of millionaires/billionaires created, not just the number exist…

> The highly symbolic law - which also removed preferential tax rates for foreign companies operating in China - was overwhelmingly passed by the National People's Congress (NPC) o…

There's nothing that can't be justified by this reasoning.

Here's one that allows you to mix and match symbols and motifs that are common to national flags: https://flag-designer.appspot.com/

At least in CA, and probably other liberal states, you have what is ironically called the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) that distributes funding equally, more or less, and t…

First off, because of Bloom's two sigma effect [0], public schools will never be able to match the experience of a good homeschool. Unless you're talking about class sizes of four,…