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Of course not that's a bit disingenuous. I would hope my colleagues write code that is comprehensible so it's maintainable. I think that if the code is so complex and inscrutable t…

DispatchHealth | DevOps/Platform Engineer | Full-time | Remote | https://dispatchhealth.com | $120k - $156k | healthcare DispatchHealth delivers healthcare in the home. Mostly acut…

Bobby Knight led the Hoosiers to three national championships and 11 Big Ten championships. I'm not sure the definition of "bad manager" would fit succeeding at the most important …

I liked Dick Gibson's History of Earth podcast https://historyoftheearthcalendar.blogspot.com/ And Dr. Christian Shorey Earth and Environmental Systems podcast https://geology.mine…

> the primary appeal of masks is for quelling fear and anxiety, not preventing spread. The appeal of masks for me is definitely to lower spread. Yes there is signaling, but also be…

All things being equal, then unfairness should be spread evenly. If certain groups are always experience the same privilege then there is no social justice and the system itself pe…

I like your table analogy. I would think that a more ergonomic hammer would also have tangible benefits like the ability to work longer and faster, creating more tables per day and…

To clarify, there was and still is an active astroturf campaign organizing thousands of people to violate recommendations by the federal government about social distancing guidelin…

The authority of a stackexchange thread notwithstanding - ER and urgent care visits are what happens when primary care physicians cannot accept same-day consultations with patients…

Web3 (not Web 3.0) is how browsers communicate with the data that is not hosted on a web server, but rather on a decentralized blockchain. This means that these things are resistan…

You think a distributed virtual machine that executes code is scammy? Maybe it can be used for scams by people who are scammers. So is email scammy too? Are telephones scammy? I be…

I would posit it's more profitable to have customers that pay for insurance monthly but don't actually utilize any resources or services. Not using health care seems to be what is …

I read the comment differently and agree with the gp. I'm not allowed to forgo health insurance and take it as cash. I have no agency over the compensation arrangement besides choo…

Hard to believe there is a line of people trying to bag Mt Everest and possibly die trying while there remain places like this that have never seen a human before. Seems like both …

His statements about trust in "institutions" misses the mark for me. Deutsche Bank has been convicted and fined repeatedly for money laundering. They have neither reformed their op…

Sounds like modern day software development.