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I guess if you feel like you're not wasting enough money on roads this would certainly be a way to waste a lot more.

A guy describing his most basic bitch lifestyle as unique and different from everybody else.

Sure they can. They just have to do it in a way that doesn't create a disadvantage for other advertising providers. Google isn't allowed to stop others tracking you without also re…

> so more layers of abstraction can be added The problem is that they're not layers of abstraction, they're just layers. An actual layer of abstraction should allow you to replace …

The trade off has changed over time as memory access has become a bigger and bigger bottleneck. But caring about this is still "premature optimisation". The claim of 20x program pe…

Contractor is the wrong metaphor. They're building a house based on a plan already designed by an architect. Software isn't the making of a thing, it's the designing of a thing. As…

The numbers from the article are: * $300 million for equivalent solar * $200-400 million for equivalent onshore wind (they don't mention offshore wind which is more cost effective …

So it's estimated to cost 4x the cost of wind or solar today and it's not being deployed for at least 10yrs. Sounds like a bargain.

If you have any unauthenticated routes that you don't want arbitrary websites calling. > using JWT in a typical SPA API scenario. Is this typical? It's a pretty horrible setup. Coo…

> You kids have no idea how easy you have it. Sure, but the needle has moved. The thing that took you two weeks to write in 1987 isn't even considered anything useful by today's st…

'Shellshock' was sitting there since 1989 and only detected in 2014.

> All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. > Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces. I read that as interf…

South Seas Company, 1720

Amber Electric in Australia has this same model of passing the wholesale prices on to customers. But they have a cap. "We pass through the 30 minute wholesale prices directly, and …

> These companies are profitable, but only because the process relies on a supply of cheap fossil fuels. If solar panels supplied the energy, the extra costs and space for the ener…

> Don't force me to pay for your little communist ideas and then force me with my own money to pay more for the privilege to use my own car. Parking and roads are massively subsidi…

"consumerist capitalism is an environmental disaster" isn't a hard argument to make and people eventually realize most environmentalism is just stacking the deck chairs on the tita…

This seems completely ridiculous. If it was profitable to do then companies would be doing it directly at the source of emissions more much efficiently.

This is what we do in Australia. Government supported places in courses have a price cap, loans are CPI indexed and paying back the loan is scaled to your pre-tax income. If you ea…

>A good way to start would be to split up libraries. Instead of creating one big library that does everything you could ever possibly need, just create many libraries. Your god-lik…

Yep, There are so many psychology studies that show groupthink , people using statements of an authority as a way remove individual responsibility and people overriding their own p…

This is definitely it. The best markets for selling software are the wealthy countries with their cultures. You need people in those countries that are part of those cultures to de…

Proxying increases the cost and effort of tracking. It's more involved than simply adding a bit of JS to a page. Things like the Facebook 'like' button is a tracker that people add…

I expect that tracking will just move to being proxied server side. It will be more annoying for the people setting it up but services will spring up to help. Little will change in…

human powered transport like walking or cycling works great in dense cities, it's more space efficient so it scales better too.