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In my old org the policy was to flag every change, not just new features and behaviors. I'd even argue that refactoring is often a higher risk than adding a new feature path, becau…

I never found a great way to incorporate feature flags into my workflow without inducing significant mental churn managing 12-step rollouts over a dozen independent active flags. T…

Why are you asking? My hope is that you are asking this genuinely from a place of curiosity to better advance this discussion, as there is apparent confusion from people working fr…

The term you're looking for is "surplus". The consumer sees a surplus of value because the price they paid is below the maximum they're willing to pay, and the producer sees a surp…

Is anyone else having trouble parsing this comment or is it just me?

If the top 10% of people suddenly had their wealth double overnight, it would have absolutely disastrous effects for the lower 90% of people. Prices for scarce goods (e.g. housing)…

I find it odd that so many comments here are fixating on the "AI can do my job 10x better" throwaway line. I've been grappling with a lack of meaning in my software engineering job…

It's worth learning from people even if we deeply disagree with them, but we still have the choice to not offer them our patronage. I see nothing wrong with pointing out how promin…

Very few people would agree that red hair is "abnormal". Why do you think that people in general are more likely to describe homosexuality as "abnormal" when the prevalence of homo…

Abnormal isn't a good word to use here since it connotates an undesirable condition, implying a need for correction. Atypical, non-standard, or unconventional are more neutral in t…

I've done the math on this many times, and it still puzzles me how anybody would choose to buy a house in the Bay Area today versus renting an equivalent one. When mortgages are ov…

2nd link contains no such information. Nowhere in the article does it say tech companies were paid to censor anything.

I honestly don't see what the issue is. "Pressuring" in this case just means "asking". Nobody was punished for not fulfilling these requests. And funding research grants into study…

This is a particular banh mi place in South Bay isn't it? I've been there dozens of times and seen the reviews you're referring to. For similar reasons I completely ignore all revi…

This is a duplicate of the following reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1hp5r20/comment/m...

There's a difference between a company directly backing a candidate and employees of company backing a candidate. Most of the contributions you're referring to came from employees,…

I hate to say it, but that article is inaccurately reported, and I cringe every time I see it linked. It conflates the PAL codes with the presidential launch codes, which are two d…

Small correction: The PAL doesn't handle presidential authentication. It's an extra layer of security to prevent a third party from detonating a warhead should they come into physi…

Could you elaborate on this a bit more?

2020 vote count: 155 million 2024 vote count so far: 139 million 2024 vote percentage counted so far: 87% 139 million divided by 87% equals 159 million. Voter turnout this year wil…

Well over ten million votes are still yet to be counted on the West Coast. Is there a reason why you haven't considered this? If you add uncounted votes then the total count is onl…

There are many studies which show that surgical masks are quite good at stopping a majority of expelled particles, even those well within the aerosolized size regime: Surgical mask…

Your assessment is a non-sequitur to the article. Surgeons wear masks to protect the patient, because masks are very effective at trapping both droplets and aerosols that are emitt…

No, individual particles can indeed be redshifted. The particle's wavelength is a fundamental property.

Citation?