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Agree. In this regard, think about how procedures changed following Chernobyl, or consider how the various "Broken Arrow" events ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_milit…

Can you expand on how this would come to be, in practice?

Valid. Different messaging for different markets perhaps!

I think the best angle is the one given in the title: 90% less greenhouse emissions, 99% less water, and 93% less land. This is an approach that provides compelling meal options in…

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Not OP, but I've gone through the E3 process a couple times. First as a change of status, second as a new applicant. You have to prove two things: 1) the job is a specialty occupat…

IMO, there's room for both approaches, perhaps with the exclusion of the most the irrational situations as you describe. It's unreasonable to expect engineers to bring battle-teste…

While drones are indeed still susceptible to a multitude of bad weather scenarios in the air, they do bypass several major scenarios on the ground that frequently interrupt supply …

The parent comment didn't make the case that the CEOs of these companies are Republicans - they were referring to the beneficiaries of the lobbying.

Definitely agree with that. Was looking for a page in the overview section, to drop a link, but that entire topic seems to be gone?

Scala still has several differences to Java including a stronger type system, traits, pattern matching, and implicits (love them or hate them.) Java is definitely closing the gap o…

This construction makes for a nice undergrad talk. Back when I was in college, my math club held a "Brisk walk through Topology" lecture and was able to pull a fairly large audienc…

Merry Christmas!

You may run into issues if the petitioner is the same as the beneficiary.

Agreed. One might say to take the conclusion with a grain of salt, but "next to useless" is being overly dismissive.

Amazon comes to mind.

Note that I am not concerned about the fact that the project was started by one person, nor am I dismissing it altogether. The author of this project is most definitely a smart and…

Will Lightbend be supporting this project in any way? The reason I ask is that I see on GitHub that you are the only contributor so far. This project is quite a large commitment fo…

Indeed, new human colonies on other planets will not be immune to our existing problems.

I wouldn't bother with a direct answer to that question.

Try thinking a long the lines of "get the ball rolling", when designing interfaces where some regions must start from a blank slate, e.g. use placeholders, prompts, etc.

Keep in mind that canaries do not preclude false negatives, especially in larger organizations.