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Are you saying the reason people don't like pair programming is because it's considered more expensive than it's worth?

Everyone inherently knows this, that's why they reach out to others when stuck on a bug (see also rubber-ducking). But why is it so hard to convince individuals and organizations o…

That was a scene in The Office. The salesmen phone the cheaper competitor's customer service while on a sales call to let them see how long they would wait on hold if they needed s…

> Why would you spend your time and effort building a house that earns you $50k when for the same time and effort you could build a house that earns you $150k? Luxury housing is ex…

How many 9s does lyft guarantee?

> Do you have a complete list because thats literally what trump is doing. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/07/biden-gra...

> Yeah, because he was guarding them against the current administration abusing the Justice Department to go after them. Same reason he pardoned Fauci and others. Are pre-emptive p…

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/06/biden-pardon-autopen-concer...

that's why no one every buys TVs

> Yet, it creates zero value. Then why do people give them money?

edit: the funeral home published this previous comment: could have been programmed as `Time.now - 1.day` to be published if no action was taken on the day of

according to chatgpt, 25% of people die of cancer in canada; presumably dying of cancer is a lot worse than MAID so one might expect this number to grow beyond 5% unless there are …

> which means almost all real numbers are transcendental Definable numbers like 2, pi, or Chaitin's constant [0] are countable. The reals are only uncountable because of numbers we…

wild to comment this

> Gun game has been an official game mode is CS for a long time This official version differs quite a bit from the original gun game though and it is not as fun.

> the theory of comparative advantage It's not a theory. Firms trade internationally because it's cheaper, not because they "believe" in free markets. > But government (society) ca…

> I'm not really into celebrities I don't understand how that factors in. It said my score was 34/40 but really it was 34/35. The rest I didn't know and I selected that I didn't kn…

Isn't this priced into the product? I don't see how this contradicts comparative advantage.

> There are huge advantages What are they?

Really. If obsessive zoning and building regulations didn't artificially restrict the supply then there would be no reason for anyone to "invest" in houses.

Doesn't biological age normally go down with weight loss? Is it just a corollary of the off-label effects of the drug?

> The long-term systemic effects of these drugs are still largely unknown. The long term effects of obesity are very well known though and unlikely to be better than any still unkn…

how does $500 (likely from your tax-free HSA) compare to the taxes you would pay in a monopsony system?

> In the US you have to be worried about taking an ambulance or visiting the ER may cost you thousands for nothing. No you don't. For one, if you are insured that is not a possibil…

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