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> i worry that medication harbors a reliance on drugs It can also get you out of bed when nothing else does. Or prevent you from killing yourself when you otherwise would have. Or …

The reason for the tracking is to better target the ads, you can't separate the two in Google's model.

Thank you, I really don't think that questions like "Why do we do X?" lead anywhere, because they have the built-in assumption that everyone does X and that everyone does it for th…

No. If a multi-billion dollar company completely overturned its revenue model, it wouldn't be the same company anymore. And the billions of people who have used their services for …

> quickly become an expert on a topic you know nothing about right when you need to be This simply doesn't happen for anyone.

But the first 10-100 hours of learning and using a new language feel so good.

1. Not really, the richest x% own and run the companies, and can spend more, but the mass of consumers of the products are spread across the wealth spectrum. 2. The idea to reduce …

> Go is in the same category. People are inventing better versions of C++ when I want them to invent better versions of Python. :) In terms of use cases Go is much closer to Python…

Which idioms in Python are you referring to?

What's the more general pitch for learning a functional language in the first place?

Do tell more, what high level stuff do people want to use Rust for?

Isn't it also kind of dying out in terms of popularity? (I really don't know)

Genuinely asking, since I have little to no concept of this space - how does the prevalence of either Intel or AMD affect developers?

- clean up the taskbar by removing the default icon shortcuts and the giant search bar - disable all desktop notifications - install Chrome - install Git Bash

I think he was answering your question rather than emphasizing anything.

This problem is inherently American - it's not that other countries have access to some secret tech that's keeping them gun-violence-free. Saying "let's not make this political" ab…

Here's what you've done in this thread so far: "These are facts: ..." (baseless claims with no justification) "I hope I don't need to explain why they're are true" (no justificatio…

Where and how do "non-central" banks print money?

And the overall economic situation - I'm too young to have experience of the job market during the last recession but I can't imagine that switching jobs or starting a career was a…