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Sorry for the dumb question, is the second version actually better than the first? Because I prefer the first. But perhaps you chose this as a particularly annoying/unuseful commen…

Aren't fossil fuel plants much more efficient than ICEs for emissions per unit energy extracted?

Well, time to bite the bullet and learn jujutsu over the holidays

Naive question, why are Canadians more poorly connected by rail than they were at the beginning of the 20th century?

I'm curious what the missing features are in Figma from a designers perspective. You've mentioned the paywalled variables, what else? (I haven't been a product engineer in years, a…

What's the relationship to replit?

It's not perfect, but runtime_checkable is a thing https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.runtime... It doesn't actually preserve typing on the protocol's methods tho…

How do you propose we do this?

What evidence is there that tarrif policy was LLM generated?

How rich are they if their time is worth $100/hour?

> Isn't Congestion Pricing a handout of public streets to the wealthy? Wouldn't increased bus ridership and lower car traffic point to the opposite?

What were the jupyter notebooks for? Did you run your backend in notebooks?

Right there with you. A very influential crackpot who's read a bit too much sci-fi.

How did you determine that Montessori wasn't right for your oldest?

By IB do you mean international baccalaureate? Do you recommend that over standard curricula?

Some stories: A friend at school brought a giant stack of $500 Zimbabwean bills to use at our school tuckshop. This stack of bills was probably about 2 feet high. This was in 2007,…

It was anything but equal. My mother was well connected to a manager of a major supermarket, so instead of waiting in line for hours for a loaf of bread, she could go in the back d…

I lived in Zimbabwe through the hyperinflation era. While true that going through hyperinflation means that your debts are essentially forgiven, there are so many negative knock-on…

I lived through the entirety of Zimbabwe's hyperinflation era. I don't quite recall how the updates of prices were done, whether you would pick the item up, and it would just be up…

Do you have anything similar that you would recommend?

Yes, the tendency to label Africa as if it were a country (rather than 54 of them) is highly annoying. Clearly this won't be available for me (Zimbabwe/South Africa)