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This feels like an excessive hate of "Silicon Valley" that is just awkward. Yes, it turns out it is easier to do easier tasks. No, it is not cheaper to pound the table with claims …

This feels wrong. Did the vacuum make cleaning worse for employees? What about sewing machines? Modern looms? It is probably a safe case that most tech revolutions reduced the numb…

This is great news! That was such a fun game.

Right, but that about halves the age of JavaScript as noted in this thread. I fully agree that it is reaching a more stable place now than it was 5 or 10 years ago. It is still now…

Also notable that the way changes are introduced to the different languages is so different that this is just hard to really look at. Notably, elisp of today is not dramatically di…

Many people that do this are almost certainly freelance contractors in some facility? Probably, though, many are just using personal as not strictly personal, but the kind of perso…

Heavily agreed. The supplement industry has such a low level of reliability that it has really soured me on so many practices people have. And I flat out do not understand how some…

This depends heavily on the industry of the area. Go to a college town and you will find owner occupancy is not that big of a deal. Go to a luxury resort town and they literally ma…

I highly challenge this. For a region, industry booms drive upward movement. And regions that are only held by one industry when it busts build rust belts. Ideally, you have indust…

To be fair, I think they just meant the stock price shape post IPO. Jumped up, then fell back down. That said, I'm also not sure how accurate that is.

This feels apples to oranges. There has to be a "cost of inventory" consideration that applies to non digital goods far far stronger than to digital ones. To the point that expecti…

The numbers just don't support this, though? Social media remains at an all time high in engagement numbers. And climbing. What is also growing is the number of people signaling th…

I confess it has been awkward to see the pearl clutching on this one. Like, the folks that were flat out proud of the implications are now offended at being tied to them. Just, wha…

That isn't really addressing my question, I don't think? The assertion is that most of the Arab mixing into region came at the same time as the later invasions. Yes, they would hav…

Is NYC the first just because every city in California does it by state rules? I'm confused.

Legitimate question, in the early days was this a large distinction? Specifically, my understanding was that the earliest raids where this distinction is most accurate, they didn't…

If it helps, https://taeric.github.io/CodeAsData.html was my attempt at exploring "code as data" and what makes lisp different here. My specific focus was more to point out that "e…

Largely agreed. I do think it is worth highlighting how many advanced parts of hot-reloading have already been covered in Common Lisp. Same with highlighting how the REPL is largel…

To be fair, this is no different than any other thing people might want to do more of. Increasing the amount you can bench press, cycle, run, read, write, cook, whatever. Most will…

Largely fair. This is one where the specific goals, I think, work against people. I know most coaches will attach "attainable" to goals, to combat that. To that end, if your goal i…

To add to this, it isn't "doing it bad" if you aren't out there reading deep texts. Just as it isn't "doing it badly" if you can't run a 4 minute mile. As you say, you get better a…

Wow, it is hard not to immediately think of that meme. There are indeed dozens of them!

I've become a huge fan of the secure knot. Holds easily as well as any double knot I have ever seen, with the massive advantage of easy release.

Right, but you are just relying on a different form of random, there. The whole point of making controls and then building experiments on changing them, is to get more power from f…

This feels off. In medicine, any evidence can also be blinded by confounding factors that are far easier to miss without adding specific controls. Really, in any field this will be…