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> as they don’t clean as thoroughly as wet wipes IMO Once you have a bidet, your regular TP is equivalent to a wet wipe. If you're using the ones that are almost cloth-like strengt…

This isn't entirely a trivial absurdity. One of the biggest things I hear about traveling in China (and Japan) is that you're expected to carry your own toilet paper everywhere. An…

As an aside: Toilet paper is an ancient, inefficient, and doubtfully hygienic way of cleaning your backside in the modern world. Start using bidets instead of this nonsense. The TP…

I can't even pass as white, and I'm still excluded from most diversity programs because my race (South Asian) is overrepresented in tech. However, overrepresentation in tech in Sil…

Blockbuster and Netflix did not sell perishable goods. Now I could buy the argument that the supermarket chains just won't be able to attract the appropriate talent to deliver an e…

> I would happily pay 80% taxes if I knew that when I needed it most the welfare state would have my back, but I know that it won't. This crucial point of yours seems to have been …

Also these places aren't good at the things they (sometimes) claim to specialize in. The wings at Buffalo Wild Wings are not better than the wings at a random bar. Maybe millenials…

Good point! I missed that and focused on the emphasized Boolean test, which is the first time I have seen any code in the NYTimes.

EDIT: My comment completely missed that there were 100 lines of identical code noticed as well. Leaving below for context. ------- Does anyone else find the example cited in the ar…

> In 2015, regulators realized that diesel Volkswagens and Audis were emitting several times the legal limit of nitrogen oxides (NOx) during real-world driving tests. This means th…

SF-isms (I understand NIMBY is also used outside SF) don't map perfectly across oceans. Suffice it to say that people living in slums in India can have a lot of political clout. Fo…

> Hospitals have to work with proprietary devices -- for example, retinal scanners etc, many of which only have Windows drivers. Then the tenders for buying those devices should st…

This. While I have come around to the concept of "It's probably better if more people learn to code", I rarely see other parts of the company so eager to share their knowledge. In …

> take home homework and other things that blow up the 2.5-hour mark I would think "take home" implies you take it home, i.e. do it in your own time. I don't know what your undefin…

I find it quite useful! My username should explain why :)

This is a good point, and why I didn't include the positive psychology point in my list – because it is a genuinely different thing.

I will bet that most of the comments in this thread are from people who have never lived in rural India. I have, and will tell you the real reason. It has little to do with literac…

I agree, I think that a lot of the points seem to serve only to pad the article length and are not actionable for most people. - Surround yourself with great people - Consider chan…

> The interesting thing with Remote is that most companies these days "allows remote" as part of their package. This question goes for the original post too -- but how many of thes…

> How do you impose a "robot" tax? Do I get taxed every time a neural net tarts up a photo on my Nexus? It would have to be a balancing act. My guess is "probably not", because mas…