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It would not be surprising, because Mamdani's mother is Mira Nair, a renowned filmmaker (who is primarily makes movies for a western audience, but is heavily influenced by Bollywoo…

This is why there should be tort law in England and other common law locales.

lol. I couldn't help but chuckle when I read this comment :)

It does mention a previous instance of the Thatcher government failing because the insider had this exact mindset...

And what exactly is wrong with that? Asking for TSMC to be sold to Americans?

The uncomfortable truth Donald Trump is finally articulating forcefully is that Europe built its welfare state under the US security umbrella, but then started getting cocky with a…

So, why didn't the judge recuse himself from this case?

You mean, show up in a hoodie at the inauguration of the President? Even billionaires are not exempt from certain social mores. Besides, suits, if tailored correctly, are perfectly…

It feels like a lot of people who joined the workforce after 2008-2010 are experiencing their first "tough times". It's natural to respond in this manner. But there is an important…

This is a weak argument. The US has a patchy K-12 system whose quality varies from abysmal to world-beating, depending on many factors. It has, indisputably, one of the world's bes…

> At the C-Suite level - even at a deeply technical company like TSMC - the job is mostly investor relations and arbitrating between various business units internally, so while a t…

> rewrites your codebase from scratch This almost never happens. It takes a long time and huge amounts of money to come up to parity, and in the meantime, the legacy org is earning…

Sheryl Sandberg does not have a technical background. A better analogy would be Eric Schmidt or Adam D'Angelo.

> Well, why not? Are they residents of anywhere? If not, do you see how easily that slides into not needing to provide services for them? Not considering them deserving of anything…

Whether I am trying to look smart or not is irrelevant. The article fails to be convincing at even a most basic level. By your logic, no company that hires H-1Bs is free to do layo…

Article does not give a single specific example of a senior engineer laid off in order to hire a (cheaper and more pliant) junior engineer. Is that so hard to do? There is a claim …

The article talks about (well, at least, opens with) instances where Courts have ordered that belongings be restored, but where cities have failed to do so. One example is that of …

It puzzles me too. But as the other commenter here has said, it appears to be a habit of the yuppies. If you are time-poor but cash-rich, I suppose this is a good solution. However…

This is already the case. American states have a lot of latitude in setting policy and governing themselves.

I was fortunate to come across this book in one of the many "Little Free Libraries" that dot my neighborhood. I dip into the massive tome every now and then and am consistently sur…

If you are a native speaker, maybe go into technical writing? Or, if you have the eye for it, design?

Python Modules of the Week (PYMOTW). Great resource to learn the stdlib. https://pymotw.com/3/

> In all seriousness, how does this make economic sense? The company is incentivizing that people move to areas with a high cost of living, but why exactly? What economic benefit d…

Yeah, his statement makes about as much sense as the expectation that all people must be charged the same for something all over the world. i.e., 50c-equivalent hamburger in, say, …

Is the "Stonecipher plan" to make such bad airplanes that they are forced to get out of Commercial Aviation? Is that even possible with the huge number of Boeing airliners in servi…