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Your revised theory is that Ars is actually a Condé company because of the logo in the footer? Not sure that’s how corporate law works. Take a minute and do some research. Advance …

Very insightful piece of analysis. Why don’t you email the Ars editors your theory that they are corporate Condé stooges and see what they say? As I mentioned in a sibling comment …

No. It’s run as a separate company inside the company. And technically Condé does not own Ars, Advance does. Different leadership group.

The terms of the Conde's acquisition state they are not allowed to interfere with the operation of the site. The depth of articles or the decision to pull in Wired content is stric…

Targeted advertising is not similar to selling internal organs.

Databricks' core value proposition is Apache Spark in the cloud, optimized with their special sauce (eg Proton engine). Running your own Spark, especially on prem, is a lot of work…

I'd encourage everyone to read Emily Shaw's research on this topic: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED563202.pdf "Validity of the SAT for Predicting First-Year College Grade Poi…

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Counter-example: Jenkins. It does what you ask of it, its base install is "naked" and only contains the minimum functionality in the core. Everything t…

The good news is we can already test this hypothesis by looking at the countries that already enforce compulsory voting [1]: Argentina Australia Belgium Bolivia Brazil Ecuador Liec…

So cynical. I hope you're never in debilitating physical pain, only to have other people dismiss the effect of surgical intervention as a figment of your imagination. It's not just…

Without specifics this article is not helpful. I've had 5 orthopedic surgeries and they were transformative -- and this article is written by an orthopedist! There's some data [1] …

> I couldn't believe my eyes – so many people in NYC (Manhattan specifically, the place I always wanted to live in) live like rats, an order magnitude worse than what you can get i…

Silver's 2012 book "The Signal and the Noise" discusses our inability to rationally process probability, pointing out that commercial weather forecasts (e.g. Accuweather) never lis…

But the media is not Nate Silver. He said Trump had about as much chance of winning as the Cubs had that year of wining the World Series, and obviously both happened. Silver did a …

Honestly Halo started to go off the rails at Halo 2 and that silly cliffhanger ending. And I'm still not sure I understand the plot of Halo 3. So I don't know if you can pin the bl…

Literally none of those links prove what I ask. The first is Microsoft opposing an effort by the US government to force it to hand over information stored on servers physically out…

Sure. Problem is, the US government does not own US companies. After the Snowden leaks, for example, Google did a lot of hardening to its servers i.e. ensure all of its internal tr…

> The CIA does a lot of spying on behalf of US corporations to drive US corporate interests. Luckily Europe doesn't do any spying. https://thecorrespondent.com/6257/how-european-sp…

Of the 3 you mention "filtering logging outputs, checking HTTP response codes, throwing errors" only the last one seems universal to me. Take logging. Super important - I spend a l…

Are you telling candidates in advance what type of code to expect or surprising them? Do you know what I do when I see a problem for the first time that I don't immediately know th…

The Leaf came years after Tesla and was a cautious, follow-the-leader side bet by Nissan. The Tesla Roadster was a radical re-thinking of the automobile -- an industry that had bee…

Not really. It's an office, not an isolation chamber. You have to work together. That may be a frustrating concept for some -- from your comment it appears you only care about your…

> a 30 second conversation might take a 1 minute call now but certainly a 30 minute call sounds absurd. It is absurd, but people do it. People are always late to meetings. Then 5 m…

I do not have kids and do not love WFH during lockdown. Simple things that would be a 30-second conversation in the office are now 30-minute Zoom meetings. Slack noise -- already a…

What I don't understand is why the big browser makers -- Google, Apple, Mozilla and Microsoft -- makers don't just offer this service. 80% of the plumbing is already there, why not…