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Let me ask you this: do you understand the code your colleagues produce as well as the code you write yourself?

Doesn't this analysis kind of break down if all of a sudden the domestically produced products shoot up in price because all of the components and raw materials are now subject to …

I don't think the problem is that people don't know what is making them gain weight. If it were, I don't think the rates of obesity would be as high as they are. I'm not saying it'…

You talk about common sense and see a sea of people who are trying to lose weight (cdc says about half of adults in the US[1]) at very low success rates ( 1. https://www.cdc.gov/nc…

At what point are you willing to concede that it might not be feasible for someone that isn't you? If it were 10% harder do you think you would have stuck through it? 50% harder? T…

You can bikeshed in any language. Kotlin introduced a lot of optional syntactic sugar so that Java devs could choose their level of comfort with the language features. I don't real…

I think it's worth emphasizing just how low the bar is in the US for public transportation bike infrastructure, and walkability, even in many of the big cities.

This is clearly not true in the desert.

Were you the recipient of a program like this? If not in what way are living out a case study?

Regardless of what you see as an exaggeration on his part, the evidence is he's referring to is surely better than the individual anecdote of the parent post.

Do you think your homeownership is unsubsidized?

The FTC disagrees with you: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/...

No true Scotsman argument aside, anti-competitive practices by very powerful firms are a bad thing, even if the firm got the market power because they have or had the best product.…

Sounds like the way programmers learn to use syntax highlighting. Never occurred to me to view ligatures through that lens .

The regulations that ban the practices is the racism here

The point of bringing it up is because one of the natural questions is "why did we stop doing controlled burns?". If you don't address this, people will think there was a good reas…

I'm not sure what you mean by pseudo arranged marriages. I mean successful at building new interpersonal relationships in general, and generally that translates into more opportuni…

Most of the people I know that pursue relationships for purely pragmatic reasons and fail seem to forget that people won't fit into boxes because you want put them there. The peopl…

You say this as if it has not already proven to be a barrier. That is to say: it's already preventing adoption, whether you think it's a good reason or not.

There is added value to you . The people who call it a tax probably don't see the value you do.

I'm a person who has vacillated between being close to normal weight and obese. I think people who don't have problems controlling their diet tend to underestimate just how hard it…

Vaccines on a population level are less risky than the illnesses they prevent and generally reduce death and healthcare costs to society. This is true of both the flu and COVID vac…

The numbers say eating less is not a sustainable way to lose weight for the vast majority of overweight people.

Why are you assuming it's a waste of time?

Surely you're aware that children and debt exist.