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Just go take the food.

There is a lot of variance in the price of cleaning tied to location. Cost of living in the area for sure, but also presence or absence of economic migrants and new immigrants.

The studies I'm familiar with have tested recall at various intervals, not brain activity.

He made money when he was working for other people. He did not make money when he tried to trade off his ideas. That was 25 years ago, since then he just broadcasts his ideas. No s…

If the toilets at all those firms started operating in reverse, very little would get built. The conclusion is that plumbers are extremely important, not that plumbing is de facto …

I know lots of writers who have (reluctantly) stopped using em-dashes. Many replaced them with colons, and are now wondering what they will replace colons with.

Yes, but do their publishers need to be compensated for a century after their death?

We certainly wouldn't want to return to the pre-1976 era, where, as we all know, no books were written.

Anybody who still writes using their own mind has stopped using that pattern, along with others. "The thing nobody tells you:" is no longer used by decent writers.

Somebody saying hello to you has you reaching for pepper spray?

So what accounts for the current state of the USA? Not exactly platonic ideals of courage these days.

Federal crimes such as having an Hispanic name.

This time, there is nowhere to move to. And there is no interest in supporting the displaced people in any way.

In the opinion of the champaign socialists in the West. In the opinion of people who lived under that regime... Not so much.

I think it is uncharitable to say "your convenience". It's more like "your vision as a creator". We're talking about developer intent that isn't possible otherwise. You can say "go…

What would that "you problem" look like? Bought the wrong laptop? Bad aura? Clicking links wrong?

Man, I remember when the common wisdom was that there would NEVER be enough people willing to put their credit card into a web browser to support a business. I never expected to be…

Although if a big pothole remains for several years amid many complaints, it's reasonable to think there's no such list. Or there is a list, but it's so long that it might as well …

Countries taking care of their citizens is communism? A social safety net leads to empty store shelves? Am I the latest victim of Poe's Law here? Every advanced economy in the worl…

Many of us (worldwide, I'm not American) watched China massacre thousands of its own children at Tiananmen Square. The US is descending into totalitarianism, but it hasn't reached …

What you are describing is not evidence, it is a willful misuse (charitably perhaps, a misunderstanding) of statistics. It is exactly analogous to using a mean in a distribution wi…

Your point is even more graphically illustrated if you compare the extremes... Say trust fund babies to homeless people. The trust fund people spend at least ten hours a week revie…

Tobacco executives probably prevented their children from smoking, especially as evidence emerged. That's just parenting. It doesn't forgive them for lobbying ferociously against a…

I didn't "vote" but there aren't many clues in your comment suggesting it's satire. It is a mainstream presentation of a mainstream point of view, how would anybody distinguish bet…

The idea that test coverage equates to well-tested software is one of the unfortunate consequences of MBAs killing QA departments.