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I don't understand the point of this article, it comes across to me as sheltered people with too much spare time maundering over petty, victimhood-ology nothingburgers. First respo…

Community (solidarity, cooperation, concern for others and knowing one's neighbors) is in steep decline in most of the US for many reasons, and especially in Silicon Valley because…

Hackintosh or not isn't relevant because it's a macOS + Google update service issue. PS: Written on a Hackintosh

Yeap. It's a completely worthless article. The more important numbers are: 0) cost-of-living adjusted income (for daily living expenses) 1) housing to yearly income ratio (housing …

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe because you can't spell "there?" ;)

Maybe Python 2 can go away soon. Also, modern Python 3 support isn't even close to 100% either. https://pyreadiness.org/3.7/

I'm disappointed by the deprecation and decay of features of DDG and Goog in recent years, it seems like the trend is toward dumbing-down. It used to be that double-quoted strings …

It's a good pattern to DRY-up resource-releasing unwind code. In an ideal world, there would be closures, RAII and fluent interfaces (macros) that would wrap allocation, deallocati…

Exactly. I was just at a community dinner for survivors of the Paradise Camp Fire, and reflected on the greater numbers of single, older men sitting by themselves. It's as if a seg…

This is what regulatory capture looks like, and Ralph Nader's goddaughter paid with her life for the cozy relationship between the FAA and Boeing. That's what Boeing's corrupting p…

No dogs are needed to conduct a random search and land your ass in jail and/or on the news. Still illegal: Texas law on CBD oil lands grandmother in jail after DFW airport search h…

Yep. It's another in a long line of management consulting's flavor-of-the-month subscription to TPS reports' KoolAid (TM). If there were such a thing as Scroob's law, it would be: …

I think they got deprecated by the Six Sigmas. - Teamwork - Insight - Brutality - Male Enhancement - Handshakefulness - Play Hard (TY 30 Rock)

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- Case Date: 9/04/2019 - Nature of Suit: Civil (CANO- 9-Property Rights (820/840)) - Case Title: Elasticsearch, Inc. et al v. Floragunn GmBH - Case Number: 4:19-cv-05553 - Judge: Y…

grsec has a history of not playing well with others, especially when they took away the source and went $$$ payware only. Took away public stable patches: https://news.ycombinator.…

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There's likely plenty: https://www.quora.com/Is-there-enough-lithium-in-the-world-t...