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"Seem skeezier"? We're talking about serial stalking, harassment, and sexual assault with multiple victims. Unless there are major facts we don't yet know, what Sacca did, even if …

He touched someone's face once like eight years ago "in a way that made her feel uncomfortable". A stupid, asshole, casually sexist move? Yup. Worthy of being raked over the coals …

>If regular, predictable events are covered, it is not insurance. Regular, predictable events are not insurable. The problem in the U.S. is that we have this bizarre system where h…

I'm 1.5 years out of a coding bootcamp I paid about $12,000 for. At a 17% rate, I would have paid $11,500 already, and would be on track to pay $22,950 more if I stay at my current…

I think that's a joke. Actual code output probably wouldn't feature syntax highlighting

That's fair. Any official statement by a corporation is total horseshit 100% of the time. Corporations literally exist only to protect and grow their bottom line, and are engineere…

>US voters are apparently OK with this US voters are impotent. Millions are about to be kicked off Medicare and Medicaid because of the signature of a man who repeatedly pledged ov…

>The doctor wanted to prescribe an appetite enhancing drug but my father explained he can not simply gain weight by eating more. It's as if his digestive system is already at a max…

Ethnocentrism is a hell of a drug

>that companies, corporations, organisations use it to market and advertise themselves, for free. Another phenomenon I've been seeing more of is a company that gets in early to a n…

I'm sure people have wondered this about the written word, higher education, etc. over the years, and society has adapted just fine every time. If anything, there is now no end to …

Graduated coding bootcamp 2.5 years ago. Currently on my 2nd developer job, making 750% of my pre-bootcamp salary. Most of my classmates continued on to do development professional…

>enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State Not well-read on the case law here, but are you sure signing a non-binding pledge qualifies under this section? I would assu…

Are you really trying to say there's no argument to be made that SPA + prerendering is a design pattern with advantages over flat html, even for static content? Obviously there are…

Also, vast majority of users will have a cached copy of jQuery from Google CDN already. Now bundling it with the rest of your JS, that's indeed a mistake.

Because we generally recognize that feudalism is bad, and therefore society becoming more feudalismesque is also bad?

Incremental !== bad

I'm constantly amused, when I see articles like this, that I've yet to see any application of AI as impressive as Akinator, and it's been around for a full decade.

You know what they say about the candle that burns twice as bright, though

Early in the Obama administration, when he hadn't taken much of a position on NN and nominated (then-)suspected ISP opponent Wheeler to chair the FCC, I think you'd be right. But f…

The obvious response to his comment on the Title I vs. Title II definitions is that he ignores the word "capability". Of course ISPs offer a "capability" to do things like electron…

>It doesn't offer any value to the consumer (at least Tobacco offers some temporary pleasure), it must be taxed harshly. I'm quite sure I've received value from browsing ad-support…

Started with WSJ but lots of other outlets pitched in.