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Biologists take ethics much more seriously than any computer engineer or computer scientist that I've seen. I saw a very notable scientist talk about topics like this and how they …

> 30% of their profit If your company is significantly breaking the law, should the company have profit for that year? Paying the bills is one thing, but profit to shareholders?

6% is the cost of sales tax in some places. That is not considered any kind of correction to bad behavior - it's literally the cost of buying goods in a variety of places. I'd stro…

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> Farm the sun Fantastic messaging! I could see this being a great way to market this, especially with something mentioned in the article: > Farm the sun to make 3X more money

Great proof of concept! At the top it says: > 2,100+ > CEO, CFO, Board, and other executive changes tracked in the past 30 days Could you add a little metric there such as how many…

Is it encumbering? It seems like it's not at all.

I was only talking about infants, and I thought Massachusetts's legal requirement of 3:1 was pretty common everywhere in the US, since one adult taking care of 3 infants seems so d…

It talks about a study from 1944 in the US, specifically in Minnesota. How many of those parents were full-time stay-at-home parents, probably typically mothers, who were monitorin…

A service that comes to pick up dirty cloth diapers and drops off clean cloth diapers. Example: https://www.diaperstork.com

I used to use DuckDuckGo, until I realized I was using "!g" far too often. Then I tried Kagi, and I find that works the majority of the time, including their AI. Someone else in th…

And how many companies want to also be able to build out their own CDN? Not every company can be an expert at everything. But perhaps many of us could buy a different CDN than the …

> To install a 3rd party window manager you need to disable some security setting Depends what you mean by window manager, but an app like Magnet does not require disabling securit…

Just like the ideal political candidate to vote for generally does not exist for anyone, the ideal company with perfect stances and behavior on everything generally does not exist.…

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Personally, I consider this horrendous advice. If you're not in step with where you're at, and you can find other employment where you'll be happier, why not change? You could appl…

They do :) And if the companies who produce these chips continue to make a healthy profit, why would they stop?

This is the answer, and correct in many ways. If the chips are cheap and easily available, and you know their failure modes, and they've been field tested for decades, why change? …

This could be the biggest bipartisan rallying cry around which politicians and elected officials could cheer on improvements. But I suspect that won't happen.

Funny enough, different airlines play by different rules [1] 1. https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/airline-cancellat...

I am scared that special grants to research rare diseases will go away, too. If we're trying to figure out what the most benefit for each taxpayer dollar is, then a rare disease wo…

What part of this discovery was made thanks to NIH and/or NSF funding from the USA, or the NIHR in the UK? I don't ask to strictly bring up politics, but instead to try and address…

Totally agreed - Things for Mac/iOS/iPad/Watch is a great ecosystem and Just Works™. I started by reading the GTD book, and then tried lots of different apps, but Things for Mac by…

I subscribed a few weeks ago, and this has solidified it for at least another year.

I have subscribed to them for other reasons recently, and this only solidifies my subscription to remain for another year. I sure don't work for anything close to Wired or their pa…