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The solution is to create a health insurance system which burdens only Americans with the $500m cost, while India is allowed to make the drug for pennies for the rest of the world.…

Baked in S3 and PGSQL feels like it's just waiting for AWS to undercut Bun's future monetization model. Deno has KV and even they are being pushed to the point of cutting regions.

They have a fiduciary responsibility to kick and scream as much as possible, then turn around and pitch it as a new feature once the rule is passed. If they really thought that the…

To dethrone SQL, you won't cut it with just average techbro hype. You need the top award of SIGMOD renamed in honor of your paradigm's inventor levels of hype.

Cyanide blocks both the mitochondrial ability to take in pyruvate and its ability to generate power , which means the cell can still attempt to use the excess pyruvate to generate …

Maybe it's supposed to mean an "upvote"?

Should the circle be widened to include computers?

Maybe the circle will expand to include computers; users and programmers of this century will be seen as the unforgivable oppressors and violators of innocent minds for their own p…

CSS is too much as well, client XSLT to XHTML is good enough for any reasonable website.

Yes but only the parts you need, which means better performance and job security.

Also easier to convince someone ignorant of the problem domain that they have an adequate understanding of the problem domain, than to convince someone with an comprehensive unders…

Teenagers who are responsible for managing the family router?

`async` tells the compiler to generate a IAsyncStateMachine implementation https://ranjeet.dev/understanding-how-async-state-machine-wo...

Scroogled lives on

Three quarters through the article the reason is implied to be: "China faked a Hollywood-style viral pandemic to undermine western political philosophy, and leaders of the world al…

They fared much worse than their Scandinavian neighbors who did lock down, but they did better than some parts of Europe. A new law was passed in Jan 2021 which legalizes lockdowns…

It would be an issue if Youtube's doing it for their own benefit, but they are just honoring Nintendo's request to not show that content to minors, so Youtube isn't at fault here.

Perhaps with the proper source code, sentience can already be created with existing hardware? I don't think regulation of hardware is a solution to what is fundamentally a software…

When human drivers cause accidents, the causes are collected and analyzed, and laws are proposed to prevent future accidents from happening. It doesn't matter if it's 12 or 12 thou…

You can inductively wiretap the wire

A higher corporate tax would mean having to compare with other nations over a number.

Lower likelihood of Covid, for one

So TypeScript is designed for the internet, and languages with good type systems are not.

One good zero-day could give total military and industrial control of multiple superpower nations to a single talented sociopath

I doubt Houston suburbs will ever replicate a European walkable city. Europe had a heatwave recently and thousands died. Houston deals with that sort of temperature every summer. T…