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I agree with your points. But governments around the world frequently demonstrate that they can be easily compromised. That's why free speech is an important counterweight to polit…

Yes, they being a doctor matters because it is a filter for someone who engages with scientific material and their opinion is more valued than some rando crackpot. That said, what …

One word, transparency. Being open about the research and outcomes. This is a situation good science communicators can help with. Engage the skeptics in open debate and address the…

What do you all think about the "Solve It" method by the Answer dot AI folks? It's more like iterating on the REPL with AI in the loop, meaning the user stays in control while bene…

Only that you are incorrect that Elon hung out with Epstein. Unless there has been some new evidence

But is there proof Elon actually hung out with Epstein as the poster asserted?

Did Musk really hang out with Epstein? I only saw email conversations between the two. By contrast, Bill Gates and Reid Hofmann hung out with Epstein A LOT. And Hofmann was Epstein…

Is it correct to say Golang is bringing Limbo to the masses?

I know that self reported data is unreliable. The person running this who was probably paid thousands of pounds worth of currency should have put in the time to produce a more accu…

How reliable is this study given that participants were asked to self report?

Without any context you might as well be arguing about favorite colors

Perhaps the reason people keep repeating it is that someone makes the statement without any reasons, provides an alternative again without any reasons. "Why are you not using docke…

Privacy is a big deal for many, especially if you grew up before the age of telemetry everywhere. For now, a privacy preserving chromium fork will do, until hopefully the Ladybird …

Firefox doubled down on using/selling user data for advertising purposes, so that's a big reason for avoiding it. I held onto it as someone who didn't even like the politics of the…

Statistics show that kids brought up with both parents have much better prospects in life. The decision to have kids should be a deliberate commitment between the parents, not some…

The H1B path has always been harder than hiring remotely/offshoring

> When Wayland replacing X, lots of cool window managers and mini applications will be gone. There's hope due to the recent x11 fork, xlibre. They intend to keep x11 support ongoin…

When thinking about Christianity, I personally make the distinction between the Christian faith, and the various Churches i.e. the political institutions that grew around the Chris…

Subsidized by the Chinese government.

Great job in training nigeriens to pick up fossil preservation work. Glad the government is taking a rational approach in collaborating with the US based archeologist.

The editors mostly reference left-leaning media outlets when it comes to political topics, without providing a counterbalance from right-leaning sources, assuming it were a truth-s…

Would this result in surprises like if a function is turned to async by adding an await keyword, all of a sudden all functions that have it in their call stack become async

How I interpreted it is that where there's a limited pool of women and promotion of women is encouraged, eventually you'll have some women who have worse leadership qualities than …

My guess is if we assume the high level and low level programmers are equally proficient in their mediums, they would use the same amount of effort to tackle problems, but the kind…