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Doubling over 10-12 years is an average annual inflation rate of about 7% . It's not 2%, but it isn't 15% either.

That statement is only supportable if vegans had a policy of annihilating meat-eating humans, which seems anathema to the vegan philosophy. So maybe we can qualify that by saying "…

One could still run a numbers station? There's no way to prove the code words have any meaning beyond what is obvious.

The drug may end up in the manure, and the parasites may encounter it there at a marginally-lethal dose. When the parasite progresses further in its life cycle, its offspring may b…

For AWS, as fully remote, for ridiculously high compensation, yes. Otherwise, no. As a user, I have observed product searching and sorting to remain in a nigh-unusable state for de…

The password-change form should be using a password field, and that should not be allowing any code or scripts to grab the plaintext stored in it. If the code that compares your cu…

I think "unsubscribe" should only be offered after a customer has been charged. Before that, it should be "cancel" or "annul". For instance, if there is a "free trial" period, wait…

If that policy is enforceable, someone would have to be storing passwords in plaintext, or the hashing algorithm is too weak. IT shouldn't be able to tell anything about plaintext …

Perhaps those problems are US problems, not specifically fission power problems? Does it look any different in France?

I find chitchat and small talk with the restaurant staff to be exceedingly creepy. As an introvert, I take it as a symptom of abusive management.

I'd wager cash that the "12" in "Level 12" is a reference to apostleList.count() .

The time is now to dredge and dump, and build fixed oceanic platforms at their territorial extremes, while the construction crews can still breathe air and weld cheaply. The only m…

Somebody has to stock up. Just-in-time delivery didn't, and that's why we're in this supply chain situation. In the future, not only is it possible your money will buy you less, it…

For some bizarre reason, management has not yet assigned a task to their programmer underlings to automated themselves out of existence. I can't imagine why. I don't think it's a m…

The minimum viable product would take 2h-4h. A professor shouldn't be teaching students to prematurely optimize or to gold-plate their first effort. Deliver version 1 before starti…

As one of those back-end-preferring developers, the thing about front-end development is that the correctness of UI code is subjective, and furthermore subject to the user's opinio…

I applied once to Digium. I was rejected, because they were "looking for someone who could hit the ground running" (in those exact words). Months later, I saw that the same job pos…

To extend the plumber analogy, prospective employers will frequently look for plumbers with specific experience in copper pipe, rigid PVC pipe, or flexible PEX pipe, as though frag…

This assumes that companies do not make unwise investments, when counterexamples are legion.

Forever. DRM is created under the cryptographically insane belief that one can treat a person as an eavesdropper at any time after they have been an authorized recipient. That is t…

Much like one cannot have a patented trade secret. The grant of patent requires disclosure, and using the court system to publicly resolve disputes. If one uses technical means to …

This comment applies to more of my real-life interviews than any other. So many ask, "How do you do X?" and the correct answer in a real job situation is always either "Look up the…

Private utility companies are often subjected to regulatory board controls. Their local monopoly is limited by a representative (supposedly) of the public's interests. That low-ris…

Durability and repair-friendliness are threats to manufacturer profits. You can only sell a good pair of boots once every 30 years. You can sell a bad pair of boots every season. (…