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Flexible sprint durations defeats the purpose of sprints. One of the main selling points of sprints is having a fixed time period of work, allowing teams to better understand the a…

>"There is a great deal of ruin in a nation." That is a quote by Adam Smith when one of his students lamented at the "ruin of the nation" when the American patriots had won their i…

>assuming, browsers are his thing IIRC he used to work on the Safari browser engine at Apple.

Government would also effectively collapse because they would have significantly decreasing revenue with increasing obligations. The problem is that the elites will realize that th…

I think the iPhone and the rise of the smartphones are what made the web popular.

I don't think moral licensing is the correct term here. Moral licensing is when you justify doing something that is morally bad because you did something that was morally good. For…

I agree with this take. A lot of old boomers tell me how there was a lot of pressure to get married and have kids because it was the thing to do. Nowadays, there is less pressure f…

Bill Gates has always been a lecher. He was a well known womanizer in his early Microsoft years and I believe he has cheated on Melinda a few times too. This behavior seems par for…

What do you mean by "not so huge agricultural sector (Slovakia)"? I thought Slovakia had a more agrarian economy compared to the more industrialised Czechia.

I don't think Europe is willing to go all out war over Greenland, especially with Russia pushing from the East.

I disagree. This doesn't really change anything. It's not like China needed justification to invade Taiwan, they already do, nor it is not like China or Russia follows the rules ba…

RubyMine is free for non-commercial usage.

That's foolish. If Russia wins in Ukraine, they would have the two strongest armies in Europe. European states simply don't have enough ordinances and gear to survive a long war.

More AI blog slop

Trump is also "buddy-buddy" with a lot of the Gulf States, in fact, he probably likes them more because they have more money to give him. If Israel does something they don't like, …

BlueSky is more a shopping mall than a public square: anyone can enter, but security can escort you out if you start causing an uproar.

You can be malicious and incompetent. The only reason we know about project mkultra was because parts of the project were misfiled in the wrong place and were stumbled upon by acci…

No, but it has a stutter.

>he came up with the laws of robotics and then cases on how they don't work. There are a few that I remember, one where a robot was lying because a bug in his brain gave him empath…

> Food for thought why Egypt and Jordan refuse to ease the sufferring of Gazans by offering them temporary refugee statuses, until Hamas is eradicated and they could live in Gaza h…

The President is effectively Head of Government, since he can veto any bill (unless rare ocassion that congress overrules, but requires large majority). The President basically set…

1. You've said that the UI system is tightly coupled with the text editor. What are the benefits to this? How difficult was it to use the UI system with sublime merge? 2. How are y…

>It's the language with the highest ratio of (useful work / LOC), so it's the least verbose language Why doesn't clojure fit the bill here?