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> It is interesting to note that new technology products are never launched in the poor segment of the market and then gradually adapted to higher-level markets Inclined to disagre…

Devil's advocate regarding cronyism is that they "just need someone good enough" for the job, and on average wealthy people tend to be far better qualified (or have the free time t…

Anyone know what engine civ 6 uses? guessing it's some in-house one but am curious if it has an internal name or something.

> So are the Clinton voters who reportedly stayed home You mean nonvoter. Someone who stayed home is by definition someone who did not care enough to go vote, so there's no evidenc…

Law has more to do with liability than practicality. Imagine trying to settle a dispute or lawsuit involving a volunteer traffic director, for instance. People can be incredibly co…

> They should! Why aren’t they!?!?! Somebody needs to make that a markdown extension. Every time you want to insert an indexed footnote, you type [^#] Probably because there's no e…

okay? Some people aren't like that. This should not be news. And it's "lose".

https://xkcd.com/1095/ This isn't limited to wine drinking preference, people can pontificate about anything. I'm sure a sea of articles in the same vein wouldn't begin to compare …

And why not. Rebasing should be much more straightforward/common. I remember at one point I had a 'magic' command that just did a rebase the way I expected and allowed me to merge …

> I've got a much nicer branching model- try not to have one Ah, like my much nicer version control system ;)

> “By his own admissions, Mr. Prince’s decision to terminate certain users’ accounts was ‘arbitrary,’ the result of him waking up ‘in a bad mood,’ and a decision he made unilateral…

the modern js/etc dev scene is supersaturated with that kind of overly verbose "trying to be pseudointellectual" crap. "It's not just a platform, it's a way of life maan" - no, it'…

> Let’s face it, its annoying when plugins get in the way of your personal design touch Frankly I run into the converse problem far more; people's attempts to inflict "their person…

> opendime [...] it's new So everyone pays tithe to a single organization that creates 'trustable' units of physical currency. So new! At least with cash you're not destroying the …

None of this was political until the mayor turned around and said to the US/USG "We are dying and you are killing us". Pointing out that she and local authorities were responsible …

Her job is to coordinate her people, not to be some ambassador between PR and the world. Most of the issues centered around lack of coordination/response infrastructure; this does …