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This doesn't seem like a safe setup. How long before tweakers and others start lighting fires in their pods?

Honest Q: What kind of therapy do you look for for things like this? As someone deeply inverted, prone to "creatively interpreting" things in a negative light, who dwells on imagin…

> I'm terrified of seeking help for mental illness because certain diagnosis can have legal impacts. It is a sad truth, no one has a real response for it except "get over it", and …

Do you think GraphQL has contributed to more microservice driven development?

> The idea of adding hours to such a trip, or turning it into an overnight trip, makes it a non-starter for me. > If people are using EVs on freeways, wouldn't they be more incline…

This exists in many Java based languages, an annotation above a method: @VisibleForTesting or some such.

I feel like you read more into this and maybe added in your own biases. I don't think these archaeologists are interested in worshipping society's elites. Maybe hundreds of years a…

I use Brave. All the same Chrome extensions and other functionality work. But I'd wager someone on here could find a problem with them too :(

> What is "reasonable," what is "fair." These words signify a death spiral in wage discussions. Another commenter commented on a burger-joint giving a share to "climate" causes. Wh…

I have no idea why you're downvoted, this is the truth > If the middle-class people move out, this is "white flight" and is evil. Later on, if other middle-class people move in, th…

I subscribe to the YouTube channel and this is exactly how I feel. I can't understand how upset people are getting at this guy lol.

I have an Oculus/Meta Quest, I don't use it much though but I used the app mentioned "Supernatural", which right off the bat sounds better than the app the journalist used (protect…

Neat! Can you make the examples open in the editor?

> when the simplest answer is that he's mentally ill and can't stop himself from engaging in compulsive behaviors This is the new favorite reason to let people off the hook. Classi…

So much he said she said is the UK better than us with healthcare or not?!

"[I] am from the rationalist community" The most rational thing we can all do is lower our standards.

I agree with you. I've been in web dev for the past 10 years and none of the companies I've worked at in San Fran use this tech. I'm familiar with the space: Gatsby, GraphQL, etc. …

Any major issues? I'm considering RN right now. Wondering whether to start from scratch or not. People refer to issues "ejecting" from Expo but those issues are vague and go back y…

Yes, journalists used to speak truth to power. Now they work on behalf of the power. And they don't just work on behalf of power, they are power themselves, and it isn't the people…

Yes this. Additionally (1) has no "higher caste" mentality. Whereas (2) often believe themselves to be the anointed truth-sayers of a secular world. Generally speaking they don't l…

Yes additionally journalists are a sort of priestly caste in our secular society. I'm personally not a fan as there's a lot of self-anointed representation by journos: "We're the v…

Amazon has gotten too big. Last year I canceled my Prime and am doing my best to use alternatives. But it's become hard, I still sometimes use Amazon and pay for shipping or use th…

Wow when I saw the title I thought "is this related to the case from earlier" and it appears to be one and the same. I can't believe anyone would buy an Amazon product after this, …

Nothing like the subtle bigotry of lower expectations - the best way to keep "those people" in the underclass is to lower the standards. I'm hoping the reversal of affirmative acti…

In the books Children of Time and the sequels (Children of Ruin and Children of Memory), when Dr Kern's human body is destroyed she ends up being existing as an artificial intellig…