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> Store of Value: Bitcoin is better than gold at what gold does. Gold is about $7tn. BTC ~$180bn I don't know many women who feel this way, and women's interest in jewelry has hist…

Wait, is this Kyle Kingsbury? If so, where is his name? Who are the authors? I notice this text doesn't mention the authors: "We wish to thank Jordan Halterman for his discussion o…

Your first 2 examples are good, but "bespoke" is older and often more specific than "custom".

Or questions that are original but get marked as duplicate. This has happened to me several times. It's become my biggest frustration with StackOverflow. I might run into a problem…

pervycreeper is making the point that all computers are, for practical purposes, probabilistic, since you can never know if a given result is because of a machine failure. In the n…

You won't find anything in any set of economic statistics that can offer the slightest justification for this statement: "The JavaScript ecosystem nowadays is responsible for the g…

Great teachers are expensive. This needs to be emphasized more. Even if there is strong demand for the dev bootcamps, the bootcamps still have to hire great teachers. The teachers …

This article misses what seems like the most obvious explanation, which is that the USA economy has recovered from the Great Recession. We had a stretch from 2009 to 2014 when it w…

You have it backwards. The plague starts in east Asia, then spreads West along the Silk Road, it arrives at the Black Sea, and then is carried to Venice. Most likely it was in rats…

On a similar note, recently a lot of research has looked at the extent to which utility functions fail to explore a space, and how the introduction of novelty is a crucial new stra…

I got started in software in the late 90s. At that time, there were immense philosophical differences between the communities that drove each programming language. Perl had a well …

Last year I worked at an electronic publishing firm which had wasted $3 million and 5 years on a Ruby On Rails application which was universally hated by the staff, and which we re…

This is fundamentally a religious question. There is nothing wrong with religion, but you should be aware when you step into the realm of religion. Whether you think the universe i…

How is this flamebait? This is a legitimate question.

The question "Was GamerGate driven by misogyny?" can now be answered. How many people raise the issue of ethics, regarding this situation, will clarify how many people really did c…

Are you joking? Every human society had ways of killing off their children, mostly the daughters since they are regarded as less valuable than sons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I…

When there is no food, the parents need to decide which children will die. This is true in all species. This is what leads to the emergence of specific neotenic traits that in the …

Anyone who has been China can tell you this is wrong: "With the exception of the imperial offspring of the Ming dynasty and the dauphins of pre-Revolutionary France, contemporary A…

And you have to figure out what a "reserved instance" is. Because that saves you 70%. And so, if you miss that small point, then you are wildly over paying. But who can learn all t…

What about Heroku or Lambda or Cloud Foundry or all the other companies that claim that startups don't need any devops at all?

My favorite by far: "Teams are better than individuals and everyone has to be aware of the valuable contributions of employees in other roles. So let's team every programmer with a…