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Seasonal flu does have containment efforts - vaccination

The only real difference is the drivetrain, and only enthusiasts really care about the technical differences in ICE drivetrains. Interiors, cargo capacity, reliability, fit and fin…

A tech company is a company that is: (1) Marketed to investors as a tech company (2) Valued by investors based on the premise that they are or will become oligopolists in their mar…

We already do this, just with corn instead of MOFs

I guarantee you CN has lines connecting Calgary and Vancouver today.

Extremely privileged position

You're right that the tech industry is by no means uniquely guilty for creating negative externalities or for the negative effects of capitalism in general. And while the other ind…

Are you writing a lot of FORTRAN 77 or something?

I drive a Volvo S90. I only really use the "Pilot Assist" on the highway, and once you've driven it for a while you can get a sense ahead of time what situations it will fail in. Y…

Well, it's more like 19% of the population (or 27% of the eligible voter pop.)

Efficiency gap is a decent objective metric of fairness.

They would have to pay the ISPs? It may well benefit them in the long run by increasing the size of their moats, but it will immediately affect their bottom lines.

Time to find out how well autonomous cars will deal with potholes

Sounds like Visual mode

There are people in Detroit mourning gentrification too

Ferndale is an inner ring suburb not a neighborhood

That's on the client code. You can't stop callers from doing something stupid (or cosmic rays from flipping bits). At that point crashing fast is preferable.

For parameters where you aren't transferring ownership, just use raw pointers/references. If it's a required parameter make it a reference. If it's optional, use a pointer and chec…

Creating objects in invalid states is definitely not idiomatic C++. I do agree that people are a little too fearful of using bare pointers for optional references, if you're using …

>the "vtable" (the dictionary of functions) being passed around isn't virtual and is provided per type, not per instance. This might be nitpicking but vtables in C++ are created pe…

I had always assumed that Auto-Tune had evolved from or was an advanced form of Vocoder (likely from the similar "robot" effect extreme applications of Auto-tune gives). I've been …

For active people trying to build muscle or lose fat while preserving muscle mass, studies have shown benefits for up to 2.2g protein/kg bodyweight. Which is a lot of protein and c…