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Iran is on the tariffs list because of Trump's maximum pressure policy (an official National Security Memorandum) against Iran. This is coupled with Trump's willingness to get Russ…

In my opinion, this was decades in the making. Most Americans are sick of the two party system that can't seem to get anything done, as well as with a political system owned by the…

The US has trade sanctions with those countries.

Systems don’t remain constant, though, and every system gets “gamed” once the incentives are well understood. I’m 100% for investment in scientific research, but I’m skeptical that…

People are reflexive. In a different context, driven by someone else, many of the people currently defending Harvard would instead be pointing out that Harvard and the other elite …

Yeah, his reasoning is suspect to a lot of folks, but I’m not sure why everyone is so comfortable with the consolidation of wealth at these elite institutions.

I've led startups running Rails and Python/Flask, but I do all my side projects in dotnet. And I haven't had a Windows machine in years, fwiw. Deployment and Cost: For solo project…

This looks great. There have certainly been times in my life where all I had was my phone, and I needed to check on a few things. I could see having an app like this handy "just in…

But it’s not the same as K-12. I can’t send my kids to an expensive private boarding school and expect taxes to pay for it.

The amount of complexity people are introducing into their infrastructure is insane. At the end of the day, we're still just building the same CRUD web apps we were building 20 yea…

Even worse, this feels like the goal was actually about reclaiming their resumes, not the stack. I expect these two guys to jump ship within a year, leaving the rest of the team tr…

Because you just inadvertently labeled yourself as a potential flight risk. Bad managers don’t know how to handle that, and will assume you’re going to leave if you don’t get what …

They have raised at least $6.5 Billion.

Determining need in the context of disability isn't the same argument, though. That's a cost specific to the individual. I'm all for public/state schools providing even more assist…

If one student chooses to get their degree from a state school at a cost of $10k/year, and another student chooses to go to a private school at $50k/year, why should taxpayers rewa…

Stripe, Block, and PayPal each solved a massive pain point. PayPal provided a way to pay people and vendors without giving away your credit card number. Square made it easy to acce…

SEEKING WORK | US Remote or Dallas Local Looking for part-time work, 10-30 hours/week, as I'm chasing a couple projects of my own. I have 10 years of experience as a software engin…

As someone who lives in Texas, the push alerts for dangerous weather has been very helpful. Not just tornadoes, but violent storms with damaging winds or hail also happen 10-20 tim…

The homepage could benefit from more tangible examples, because right now I can't discern where it fits into my current stack. For most companies, it would be replacing something i…

Innovation doesn't always mean new products, sometimes it means making the current ones better. In the case of laptops, tablets, phones, and smart watches: thinner, lighter, more p…

It is 37 GB (I downloaded it yesterday).