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So you think you would've hang glided into a music festival and shot at all the young people dancing? Or you would've done this: https://saturday-october-seven.com/ ?

No, but it'd probably be okay if the pilot flunked their SATs.

I guess the question is: would you rather hire someone with poor SATs and god-tier Leetcoding skills or vice-versa?

You've never met a smart high school student that didn't study? You've also never met someone who became more disciplined later in life?

As a SWE that has only ever worked for an employer or on his own projects, this makes me wonder: how would someone even get such a contract? Did this person already have a consulti…

Nuseirat in Gaza on 2026 May 8

> I’m glad you finally quit and I hope you never apply for or are offered a job again. Never is a long time. Do you not think it's possible that this person could end up in a diffe…

An important caveat I would argue is that your fellow citizens' bodily autonomy gives them the right to prevent you from smoking if it would cause them to breath in the toxic, addi…

Citation needed

Weed and tobacco smoking are also easy to detect by people who don't want secondhand smoke. And if it were illegal, they could report it.

Taking away smoking still solves the secondhand smoke issue.

A smoking ban could easily be enforced by allowing anyone bothered by secondhand smoke to report it.

It's not about the smell. Secondhand marijuana smoke carries many of the same harmful compounds as cigarette smoke [1]. The issue is involuntary exposure in shared living spaces. A…

It's not just because marijuana "smells bad". Secondhand marijuana smoke contains many of the same toxic chemicals as secondhand cigarette smoke and likely is similarly deleterious…

I personally would be okay with having it legal if smoking could still be banned in multifamily complexes. I don't care if my neighbors are using edibles, but since I know that leg…

For most tech jobs with non-competes in the US, the non-compete is unpaid. Which is different than other industries such as finance.

I've run into services that will flag specific tlds as invalid.

Though Manifold only uses their non-withdrawable play currency Mana.

Anthropic Principle

Another thing to think about: if we are here, and assuming we experience things - that is we are not biological robots - and if the universe is indeed a simulation, then how are ou…

How is it more severe if the Ukraine war resulted in over a million casualties?

Iran has a choice - it could choose not to support Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis or any other group firing rockets on Israel. It could also choose not to enrich uranium.

In 1945, about ~90k people died over 2 days from the Tokyo Firebombing. Do you think it would be difficult for any modern millitary - that intentionally wanted to cause as much col…