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I did this, and I went through the support process to totally delete my account, including purchased content. Sometimes I wish I could still play SC2 with friends, but expressing s…

LEED sucks. This has been known for a long time. But instead of bashing it, we should be asking: is there an alternative? If not, how could we create one?

There's almost nothing productive in this article so let's try not to amplify its reach by talking about it too much on public social media. Best way to respond to this is to ignor…

You're correct, but it is different. There is no free way to accept payments. I personally pay with a 2% cash back card myself. I just hope people have a full picture of the costs …

To everyone saying "my credit card pays me 2% to use it", no, your credit card charges the merchant 2.3%+ to use it, that gets bundled into the price, and they give you 2% of that …

Nurses, doctors, and other healthcare workers in the US are being taken advantage of right now and threatening a strike is one of the few ways they can maintain a balance of power …

Not true (source: I recently did a bunch of car buying research and a used Leaf was my number 2 choice; ended up not getting it). These are electric drivetrains (simpler transmissi…

I worry a lot about this but if this is the price of competing with the Google/Apple duopoly maybe it's worth it.

Metaprogramming Ruby by Paolo Perrotta has the best explanation of Ruby's object system I've seen. It's a must-read for anyone working with Ruby, even if you have no interest in me…

This is a special case of a general class of vulnerabilities in AI models, where an adversary can cause undesired output from the model by constructing input data not represented i…

This was discussed/predicted a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16258336

https://www.livescience.com/nueroscience-patient-who-can-not... ^ This article (reporting on the same research) seems to be a bit better.

Even with targeted ads how often is it that someone actually (1) wants the thing and (2) buying the thing is net good for them and for society? I'm sympathetic to the argument that…

It's partly biological but there are still many existing cultural attitudes that discourage husbands from performining traditionally "feminine" roles/tasks when caring for their ki…

Related: How To Change Your Mind is worth reading. It covers the history of psilocybin & LSD research including the early parts of this recent resurgence in interest.

On the positive side, I do think that if we repeat this truth enough times we can decrease the "cover my ass" value of consulting and help more orgs make change autonomously.

How many quality opinions did your friend get? I also know people with DED and from my experience not all docs understand the disease well. Obviously you know more than I do, but I…

Thanks for pulling out the data! One problem is that "somewhat", "very", "completely" don't give a good picture of how dissatisfied these 2.7% of patients are. It's possible some o…

Eye drops do not treat the underlying cause of dry eye (unhealthy/insufficient tears, inflammation (e.g. blepharitis), or in rare cases neuropathic pain). They are just symptom rel…

Yup. https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1141937787442098176

I mean, it's worth asking, but anyone with a good niche would be smart to not post it publicly unless the benefits of publicity outweigh the risk of competition.

All good points. Haven't read the code so I don't know how deep the similarity goes but the new React Concurrent UI Patterns is at a surface level conceptually similar to Ember's i…

I can think of selection bias effects both in-favor of more defects and against it. On one hand, Haskell or Clojure probably attract more academic types who have a reputation for (…

Thank you for that! I completely agree with your comment, and I appreciate the attention to detail. I'll edit my post to change "equally" to "equitably" in that sentence.

The problem with this article is that it doesn't go into detail about what the "taxes and fees" pay for, aside from airport surcharges. Without knowing that it's impossible to dete…