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Corporations don’t need to, no. But they are systems, and it’s a beginner mistake to assume changing one part is going to affect the whole in some simple, predictable, logical way.…

Precisely. RoS turned TLJ into a mistake. A different sequel could have paid things off. Maybe.

It’s, what, 25 years old? There have been many sequels, prequels, remastering. The economic benefits of this IP are largely exhausted; that it is now leaked to the commons isn’t an…

I have to go with The Birdcage. Just a silly movie, with Hackman playing a rather timeless portrayal of a politician. The meandering story about “purple mountains” always gets me f…

Now imagine how the administration might deport 20 million “illegal aliens”, as they’ve promised.

Many would be adjacent to the new ruler. The startup shutters but the VP of Engineering is already starting something new with his old reports.

The point still stands that the choice of response should be appropriate, and there are several choices between inaction and deployment of the military.

I don’t disagree, but man, a lot of “this will not happen” is happening.

Precisely. There’s no wisdom in the approach. “I’ll try refactoring - that’s a good trick!” is a poor approach. You can try it, but the consequences of a poor refactoring? Look to …

What you have here is essentially a tragedy. I totally sympathize with the author as someone who is (probably) neurodivergent but had accommodating parents. Being given space to be…

I used to book Japanese bands for FanimeCon/MusicFest (happening today, coincidentally). It’s frustrating for a single event, as the overhead eats into (already meager) revenue. Th…

Not meaningfully. It’s already expensive to get over the border and line up a tour, so international artists are already far more disadvantaged.

Exactly. The problem is the excessive water extraction, not the technology making it cheaper.

The decision was already in the hands of the people. We don’t - didn’t - need to elect people to implement our preference. Stepping away from a politically-charged question is stil…

I thought I was misreading this. It seems onerous to keep track of every nonce, even scoped to a given session. Maybe I’m missing something.

It was a random (and facetious and probably bad) idea to include a bullet point that would elicit a “wait, what?” response from anyone who would read it. My resume highlights, as a…

> Seems like a lot of unicorn hunting out there, right now. Agreed, and I feel this is happening across job families - JDs seem much more domain-specific, especially around ML/AI. …

Pretty bad. I’ve got a lot of experience as an IC, manager, and leader, and it doesn’t seem to matter; companies seem much more picky (“you were great but we want someone with more…

Mostly correct. Radio, satellite, and internet all pay different kinds of royalties at different levels (or used to, last I checked). I believe radio only pays the songwriters/publ…

Stephan Guyenet has written at length on the topic and it makes sense to me: the “why” is multifaceted, due to things like availability, palatability, etc. And these changes - like…

Reducing controversy could reduce costs. Plus I’m sure Disney would be happy to have fully generated and manipulable actors protected under copyright for decades upon decades. Esse…

Not to get all “orientalism” but celebrity scandal is a pretty big deal in Japan and South Korea. It can kill a career quite easy, for (by US standards) innocuous things. Smoking p…

One of my favorite movies. This scene is thrilling, and the montage of the military occupying the country gives me chills.

I’d have to do some digging, but these observations are largely moot. The “differences in lifestyle” meme is accurate but incredibly imprecise; hunter-gatherer societies are vastly…

Same; I saw an interview with Steve Jobs in the 80s or 90s where he used it. I was surprised.