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Monopolization and patent evergreening. Monopolization is a natural tendency of markets, you should expect it often.

But CS students aren't really expected to pick these things up on the way - and they have other things to be doing if it's not required coursework. It's like an English major who c…

i.e. the crap I have to teach (or tell to self-teach) 95% of people who are taking on a programming role. While I understand the value of distinguishing between CS and software eng…

To be honest, this comment section is full of blanket dismissals that speak to living in a bubble away from people with very real grievances. I would say it is not particularly phi…

It's tough to know where to begin with something so obviously false and trivializing. What amount of violence would you need to experience before you would acknowledge victimizatio…

This makes no sense at all. If you have been or are being victimized, recognizing it is the first step to taking an action to counter it. If someone steals from your car, nobody pl…

The conflation tends to come from an angle that is either anti-semitic or Zionist and hyper-nationalist. Or was informed by one of those camps and picked it up by osmosis. I would …

No discussion whatsoever about people having actual grievances. Just the identification of a personality trait and then making it out to be a problem that actually hurts other peop…

Consider that summarizing it as a single quantity is already unwarranted and somewhat arbitrary. The question should be about the utility. What is the utility of having one major n…

I wonder what this has to do with tech

An analysis of what is efficacious for opposing "extremism" is pointless without also looking at the cause(s) of that "extremism" or being able to identify natural experiments. Nat…

The best time to shop around for the best deal is after you've been hit by a car and are having trouble breathing.

The ruling powers have no interest in doing it. This is more a political problem than a technical one. Many similar choices have been made to go down the path we're currently on: -…

I would guess that very few people are reading, editing, or re-running your code, though, which kind of changes the nature of discussing a programming language. Otherwise they'd al…

Please repeat this explanation but for me, a person who can't read.

A 2% difference is pretty small, though. Small enough that the top four or so minifiers appeared to have very similar performance - just depended on which codebase you were using. …

Sounds great! Would so much rather drop into Rust than C or C++.

Please note that this is a slow process and the stocks may be worthless by the time you completed the transfer. They will also likely freeze your ability to do anything with those …

The case of GME is more complicated than only being highly shorted. A short squeeze doesn't emerge solely from being highly shorted. Please be very careful with any single-stock ga…

The best ggplot2-like option in Python, by far. I use it constantly.

If the core problem is volatility, then freezing trades would be the natural response. They froze only the 'buy' option on their app. Selling would still go through and they'd stil…

For a project where a sole primary maintainer is the only option, this makes perfect sense. For long-term viability of a popular project, I think you'll eventually need more mainta…

Another view is about what services on the internet should be considered a commons, particularly as more interaction shifts to online rather than in-person spaces. Physical commons…

The ceiling method matches with the expectation of how much time is left when the major digit changes, which is the same as how we do countdowns verbally in English. We say, "5, 4,…

I started on gentoo, went to arch, then to ubuntu LTS. Both switches were for the same basic reason: packages broke just often enough that it wasn't worth the benefits of having a …