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We still have companies that use COBOL and mainframes due to their longevity and continuity. There is no reason Postgres and pgrust cannot both flourish. I can pick and choose whic…

I have a question for you, or any other immigrants. A common complaint I have heard from rule-followers immigrating to Germany is something like "You have to have an appointment in…

This is just straight up false. Laws don't cease to exist because of a liquidation. Legal rights absolutely matter in the event of a liquidation, and will be part of any liquidatio…

The GDP per capita is just low compared to the US. It's roughly the same as the UK. And I do think there are some ridiculous inter-provincial bureaucracy issues in Canada, it's har…

I am tempted to quote your inflammatory post, but don't want to give it more airtime. Please stop doing this. If there are specific points of the analysis you think are suspect, po…

That's likely what people will still call them, regardless of the neologism. I am not opposed to the neologism, but like most, it will be really hard to agree on a single one so we…

I'm male, and clearly don't know enough about this--are there any benefits for the user that a period tracking app can provide by reaching out to the cloud? I guess backing up your…

Slippery slope is a fallacy, but enough of these incidents and people will absolutely start trying to apply this in their home states. I thought India had gotten past the "I don't …

If you think the AI generated that metaphor, you haven't been paying attention.

> So many places in India have been reduced to a shit show of filth because of not drawing a line. I would be highly supportive of prosecuting and fining people creating a shit sho…

> But major cities just don't suffer from the same problems! Say Chennai or Mumbai or Trivendrum or Kochi or anybody else - this is simply not a problem. They don't have over touri…

I doubt this has been given judicial review at the High Court/Supreme Court level. As for Himachal, you seem to be the expert but I thought that Himachal disallows non-locals from …

> There is a difference between "trippers" and renters. Had your read the article you'd know that they are ok with people living in cottages on Sunday just not "trippers" Again, no…

> It's education of taking care of your general area and environment, not general schooling. I kind of know what you mean, but feel like we are going into No True Scotsman territor…

I did, a requirement to book a guesthouse room through the weekend does not make the moral/legal issues any better. Imagine that some town in the US did this; and shut down otherwi…

> My ancestral family is from village and small towns, and counterintuitively they tend to be much cleaner because they have more formally defined municipal and local governments. …

You hit the nail on the head. It's not that simple. I was born and raised in India and I have seen hordes of supposedly "educated" Indian people with degrees littering and making a…

As someone born and brought up in India, I'm a little conflicted about this. Of course it is true that a lot of Indians have no civic sense, and will spit, litter, and generally ma…

> Wouldn't this punish a huge number of students who struggle academically, by comparing them against better-achievers who simply skipped school? Why would it not just compare them…

You're hiding behind semantics. Why should there be a difference in the degree being conferred at all? And if so, why not split off the departments that confer degrees with a low-e…

Licensing and degrees are not mutually exclusive. Plenty of engineers take licensing exams (CS degree holders are a large exception).

Hopefully this will revamp the educational system in such a way that the pejoratively named "trade schools" can confer bachelor's degrees on their graduates as well. I don't really…

They are right, it's too much. Let's reduce it to $1.39T. A company with 10 billion in market cap is still pretty big.

> My English ancestors have precisely no bearing on the way I live my life any more than my German, Dutch or Polish (well, they came from what is now Poland, but would never have t…