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You can make the opposite point with the same logic though: "the powerful, dangerous tobacco industry was given a loophole in the flavored cigarette ban allowing them to prey dispr…

Nonrefundable rates are not marketed as a bet against global catastrophe. They're a commitment that you won't change your mind. This epidemic is more similar to the hotel burning d…

Cell service isn't for yapping anymore, it's for scrolling!

Assuming it's an entirely separate venture, sure. But from the OP it sounds like the cofounder might be continuing in the same line of business, but wants to "pivot" and jettison t…

I agree completely. My favorite podcasts are crowd-funded with no ads, but the least-bad approach to ad reads is when someone reads a script, verbatim, in a bored monotone. Especia…

Couldn't you criticize the parent comment for exactly the same reason? Someone posted "I liked her" and someone else posted "well I didn't."

The big missing piece is roles. No service uses a root access key directly. Instead, there's a webserver role with access to a relevant secrets group but no access to data warehous…

It was more than a few months ago, but they published a best-selling eponymous book.

So at minimum they've got your identity and much of your browser history. Seems reasonable to call that obscene.

That's not the purpose of grandfathered pricing, they just want to raise prices without upsetting active users. If you cancel you're not an active user anymore :)

This may not have been a serious question but I'll give a serious answer: depending on the interviewer, you could get bonus points for going "above and beyond" or, yes, you could b…

It seems to me that "because, deep down, we don't want to" is a perfectly legitimate answer to the question posed by the title. I agree, though, that _why_ we don't want to would b…

This didn't make intuitive sense to me so tried to Google it. Is "Introselect" what you're referring to? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introselect It's a hybrid of quickselect and …

I'm no fan of open offices but your workplace sounds like it has more issues than just the floor plan.

If one company will pay you 500k for working 60h/week and another will pay 500k for working 40h/week, then choosing the latter isn't entitlement. It's market forces at work. If you…

I don't know if I'd be comfortable relying on a third party for data export.

People like Criss who ask this question in interviews are looking for a brute force solution with recursive backtracking.

You didn't answer the question.

No, that's not clear. What's clear is that if you press "no" on the popup, they'll terminate your account. What will happen if you press "yes" and then continue to discriminate how…

There's a difference between saying "I believe we can develop X" and "we currently have X." As I understand it, Holmes and Theranos did the latter. And that's fraud.

Lots of people here undoubtedly agree with you, but you're probably going to get downvoted again, because: Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, a…

Is the pool of outsourced workers really so small that you can say "Greeks have great expertise in databases" and have it mean anything?