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In my experience with this question, whichever answer you want to find, you can find research useful in defending it. * https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-research-is-there-into…

TL;DR: recent changes in Section 174 IRC will _incentivize_ R&D spending, not cause layoffs of researchers and developers. Section 174 allows businesses to deduct their domestic R&…

A rat done bit my sister Nell, with whitey on the moon. Her face and arms began to swell, and whitey's on the moon. I can't pay no doctor bills, but whitey's on the moon. Ten years…

But if we asked users "Choose one: the ideal convenience of being able to log in with just your username (but anyone who knows your username can login as you), or the inconvenience…

The key to lucid dreaming for me is to question reality regularly, and as a result do things in waking life to test if I'm dreaming. About once a month I will legitimately wonder w…

Eventually someone is going to have to be the first person in tech to be pretentious. ;)

Elon Musk is actively supporting AfD, the current far-right nationalist German party whose members have been caught sharing Nazi memes on Facebook with one another and, well, just …

That is a better one. I don't know why three rich guys investing in a new company would result in a slowness that Trump could fix, though, and a promise to rush or sidestep regulat…

A rat done bit my sister Nell, with whitey on the moon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_on_the_Moon

This is my question too, but I haven't seen a journalist ask it yet. My baseless theory: Trump has promised them some kind of antitrust protections in the form of legislation to be…

Start a Slack and invite your community to it. Moderate it graciously with a simple, public, fair code of conduct. Make sure all the FB users are invited. The features just beat Fa…

I agree with you about trying to avoid thought stopping terms, and the desire for more specific language in important topics. It's tempting to think that history repeats itself, bu…

I think "techno fascism" is a term people are using to describe tech company CEOs operating as unelected oligarchs embedded within the new US government. If you're looking for a be…

What's your opinion of "architect" as a verb? I was in a workshop once wherein the instructor paused everything to beratingly correct someone for 5 minutes on how you can't "archit…

They're perfect for each other.

I'm consistently baffled by the rarity of a product owner improving their bottom line by simply improving their users' experience.

Which nation's constitution is built upon the annihilation of Israel?

> Western media is also very anti-Israeli Taking nothing away from your personal local experiences wherever you are, I don't think this is a generally true statement. https://insti…

This article is not peer reviewed. It says monkeys look less at masculine features than feminine ones and thus they often look more at the loser than winner of a US election. The m…

After he's done with v2, might I propose... THE GAMEY GAME 3D ?? https://threejs.org/ I started coding at 9 as well (which was a long time ago now), so I was very happy to play and…

"Burn the books" is a rather large task for most published books though.

I just beat the pounder monster AND got all the math questions right EVEN the division ones and the arithmetic ones where you had to carry a one, so THE GAMEY GAME has me feeling p…

Fun fact: The Taco Bell bell gong sound is an E on the DX7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DBrC_l-VCs

I was imagining a few limitations to help with consistency: all scenes have the same number of edges (say, 10) ensuring there's a limited set of scenes you can navigate to from the…