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Precisely. The Overton window for this topic seems to have shifted pretty far. The default position should be one of positive consent and assumed privacy. But then again, I think i…

It has to be Quicken, right? They're the largest outfit I can think of. They’re obviously not primarily software, but I think they employ most of the tech workers downtown.

Do they count even though they’re headquartered in Campbell, CA?

> The trip, which took place on a luxury bus outfitted with a supply of vegan doughnuts and coal-infused kombucha, was known as the "Comeback Cities Tour." I live in Detroit. It’s …

I think there are other places to work besides the Bay Area.

Check the client-side JavaScript just to be sure. ;)

> “Despite working in Silicon Valley, where a 1100sqft home with no yard costs $2m...” You could buy roughly 667 acres of land here in Lower Michigan for that much money, which pro…

The internet was readable before AI/ML. I don’t think bikeshedding should be that complicated.

I refuse to let a simple phrase like that become verboten just because a certain configuration of it was used by someone that our circles of friends dislike. Personally, I think it…

A little nihilism legitimately helps me. One day, the sun will expand and, most likely, engulf the inner planets. Save for a few hunks of metal and bursts of energy, all that was, …

I've heard that argument, but recently I've started to disagree with it. I can only speak to my limited experience, but my three prior gigs have all wanted some amount of "passion"…

She wasn’t powerful enough to avoid the consequences.

Except TangoTrotFox's original statement was: > The speed of light is not a speed limit on effective travel, but on observation. Which is absolutely factually false.

I'm going to quote my original post: > In 1663, John Twynn, was tried and executed in England for printing material that suggested that perhaps the monarchy should be beholden to t…

> None of this is relevant to whether Twitter want to be complicit in publishing this speech which they are under no obligation to do. Grandparent was arguing that people can't han…

First amendment jurisprudence, thankfully, disagrees with you. But first, some history. For most of modern history, speech has been censored in some form or another by governments.…

Well-said. The more I see from Twitter, the more I try to distance myself from it. I think a combination of today's political environment and the nature of the internet (pseudoanon…

> In my lifetime the vast majority of my acute health issues went away on their own without any particular medical intervention. I mean well over 99.9%. To be fair, if they didn't,…

That's because most Americans have no idea how probability or risk mitigation work. It's their body, dammit, and they want you to fix it!

Under relativity, you can't simply add speeds like that, unfortunately (I believe this is related to the fact that the speed of light is the same in all reference frames). Here's a…

Here's a catch-22 comment from elsewhere on this post: > Avoiding women in workplace is essentially sexist. And for non-sexists there is no reason to do so. So you're damned if you…

> The speed of light is not a speed limit on effective travel, but on observation. It is absolutely a limit on effective travel (if we ignore things like wormholes for a second). C…

Then those "perfectly reasonable" applications are free to eschew languages like Java. People do it all the time to great success. People also use Java to great success. But that's…