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The whole reason that hooks were created was that they could composed, as opposed to stuff like renderprops or mixins. When you create a custom hook that uses a useState and a useE…

Matt Levine has talked about how this is how PE firms work too. No Harvard MBA wants to work for a midsize manufacturing firm, but they’d kill to work for a PE firm that going to m…

Monads don’t compose, effects do. ‘IO a’ works great until until you need to add another effect, for example ‘Maybe’. Then you need to bring in monad transformers and create your o…

Being able to change the ordering of effects on the fly is a benefit of algebraic-effect systems. As you mentioned `State >` and `Result >`have very different effects. Algebraic-ef…

Maybe you remember when the Israeli Military killed 223 peaceful protestors and injured over 9,000 more? ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–2019_Gaza_border_protes... ) or when…

“They will still be able to bring their own alcohol to drink at the bars … The current alcohol ration allows Antarctic workers to buy up to the equivalent of 18 beers each week, or…

It’s not JavaScript, it looks like JavaScript but it works differently

It’s not espionage, it’s an expert network!

In defense of consulting the “sales pitch” on consulting is that the people on top, the partners and managers, have the industry experience to guide the more junior employees who d…

Like most good satire it’s based on reality

As someone with firsthand experience at a “top” consulting firm this article is pretty accurate, albeit with a definite negative slant. A couple parts that really ring true for me …

Neither Accenture nor McKinsey are Big 4. The Big 4 are PwC, EY, KPMG, and Deloitte. Despite what the name suggests they aren’t actually the top consulting firms (the name comes mo…

The issue is that lobbying has two different meanings. The literal meaning is trying to influence politicians but the common usage refers to when companies and special interest gro…

> There is no good democratic outcome for $175K a year jobs that cost half a billion dollars to apply for. I would argue that this is a reason to reform our electoral system rather…

> Generally industries are much better than random politicians at predicting the consequences of rules This is true but when people are talking about restricting lobbying the kind …

Yes you can, even if you don’t want to restrict lobbying on free speech ground you can place donation caps and increase transparency requirements which would both limit the power o…

Why? What is the benefit to the public good of allowing corporations to use their massive resources to shape legislation to benefit them at the expense of the general public?

> You don't really care about Pokemon, but you know you can sell Pokemon on eBay[2], so you automate it with a device like this. People who are selling Pokémon on eBay are probably…

There’s also plenty of evidence that improving educational outcomes for low performing students has an outsized impact. “Decreasing the number of high school dropouts by half would…

Touché - “Science has widely come to be understood as a systematic assault on common sense. Common sense said the world was flat; science showed this to be false. Common sense said…

The idea that we have to choose between helping struggler or gifted students is a false dilemma. Instead we should be asking why we aren’t allocating enough resources to education.…

Common sense is frequently wrong and is usually invoked by people who want their beliefs to be taken as fact without needing to provide support

“Chief People Officer Daisy Auger-Dominguez, who wrote a book on the workplace "inclusion revolution" but refused to give workers Indigenous Peoples Day off after Juneteenth made i…

I think generally the people who are against racism and facism aren’t the ones pushing for more child labor

> It’s weird to aim this at Meta. It also doesn’t say that they’re not receiving these benefits - just that Meta doesn’t pay for them, which is how I’d expect a vendor to work. I t…