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I think this just validates their points. Netflix has more engineers and 8 years of them building and fixing things, so they have fewer issues.

If you told McDonald's to double their number of McRibs produced next year that would be an incredible challenge to meet. They already sell enough that it affects the global pork m…

I think a lot of people feel "clever" and like what they're doing is, while not expressly allowed, not forbidden either. See a bunch of people in this thread finding out they're pr…

Historically, and happy to be proven wrong here, we've never seen a lab-leak of a novel virus cause a widespread outbreak. We have seen zoonotic transmission cause an epidemic/pand…

1. There's a giant difference between 80% and 30%. 2. That's not reflective of the rental market in Houston (I'm from there and going back for a graduation tomorrow), that's reflec…

>My rent is up 80% since two years ago. There's no major* rental market in the US where this is the case. * - There could be some oil boom in a 300 person town I don't know about I…

There's no details about this, however I believe it wasn't a "buyout incentive" it was a "don't talk shit about us" payment given that all the ex employees have only said things li…

You remind me of the database guy who, when I told him we'd lost a replica in prod and asked when it would be back online, said, "It's not a high priority for us, there's still ano…

A lot of the original libertarians were...socialists. The term today has been rebranded to mean strictly anarcho-capitalists but it originally included anarcho-communists and liber…

>I think it also means I’m less likely to get hit on, which is a horrible thing that has happened to a lot of young women in fields where there aren’t enough women Do you think my …

The smartest person I know, idolized him since I was a kid, had that same misconception last year when we were discussing top end tax brackets. I feel like every April news orgs sh…

>You are a fucking idiot. >If you disagree - then, please explain to me. EDUCATE me. on how I am wrong. Boy howdy if that's how you go about seeking education I can guess a) what y…

>especially my income is at the boundary between two tax brackets Wait, can you explain how tax brackets work because I think there may be a fundamental misunderstanding here. If w…

I'm not sure of your point. You're scared of being seen as a predator while women are scared of being preyed upon? So wouldn't you want to try and make spaces as safe as possible s…

>what action would you have people take People can obviously do whatever they want as long as they're aware past performance...blah...blah...don't invest more than you can lose...b…

"I re-watched Schindler's List..." According to the movie the shells were all non-functional, so I'm not really sure why you brought that up. "the way I delivered my — and my colle…