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I will also add that many problems in the US and other countries stem from the perversion of incentives and benefits of the few over the many. What I mean is that keeping this brok…

It took the ER 4 hours to give me pain meds for my kidney stone. They sent me to imaging where the tech asked “did they give you any pain meds?” and I said no, and she sighed. The …

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

This is the point Nassim Nicholas Taleb makes in his book Fooled by Randomness. In a long enough timeline luck plays a big part in performance. People or firms like Melvin can perf…

Is it not obvious that that H1B program has been abused for years to suppress engineering wages?

Yes correlation != causation. As vkou noted, it's who gets to pick the candidates that matters, which leaves us to pick between a giant douche or a turd sandwich.

It's pretty simple, politicians are paid by large corporations to gut, capture and deregulate these agencies to be able to increase profits and decrease costs.

The police had edit rights to the show, they could edit out any of the parts that made them look bad.

How many Dollar Stores are in your town? Here is very interesting podcast outlining how Dollar Stores kill supermarkets that carry necessary products like produce. https://www.npr.…

I think you meant to say WALL-E, but your point still stands.

Actually for many newspapers in the US the classifieds were a major revenue contributor.

I agree, the removal of the 75kWh S/X is probably to somewhat offset the margin hit they are taking by offering the mid-range M3. They seem to be working down market but each step …

Couldn't you use Erlang/OTP for the main parts of the system and for the performance critical parts that Erlang isn't great for (like crunching numbers) you can use something like …

If anything I think this article makes a great case for TDD. If your developers aren't good at design and refactoring and that is showing up in your tests, that is an indication th…

What is stopping a company from hiring a contractor to code the illegal parts to thereby insulate them from responsibility? This happens with oil and gas disasters as discussed on …

Couldn't you ask the LEO during cross if they obtained any information from the SOD? Put them in a position to perjure themselves (not that you'd know if they lied or not).