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That's the nice part about having your own country -- no more systemic discrimination or prohibition on owning land, or joining professional guilds, or having some king being upset…

In the age of AI, interchangeable content farms that earn pennies by filling 80% of the screen with ads are dead. In fact, the user hostility of those "blogs" is what pushes people…

Yes, the antisemites are rejoicing all over the world. Let's not confuse negativity and hatred with genuine popularity.

> Also don't trust any of the managers. Don't take anything people say at face value. "Did you enjoy Game of Thrones? You'll love working here!"

You can't rely on UDP experience.

Did the flow ask them explicitly for scopes? If not, then they should know there are no restrictions. It also seems, from the post, that customers were "long asking for scoped toke…

Things have changed. I worked with a very senior and professional recruiter at FB during that time. While things didn't work out then, someone else reached maybe a year and a half …

iPad is the best consumption device in existence. Reading, video, casual games, it handles all without breaking a sweat. And as speech recognition and translation into intent using…

People can have different lived experiences and it's OK; they are differently valuable and beneficial. I'm a certified unc, easily double the age of your oldest, and I have 0 anima…

I think people living outside the US don't realize how few disputes here are actually allowed to use the official legal system when dealing with companies of non-trivial size. Many…

Apparently, OpenAI already folded. https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/tech/openai-pentagon-deal-ai-... A unified front from tech companies could have stood a chance, but there's too mu…

The housing market is a textbook example of the opposite of a free market. In most markets, anything that does not "improve the character of the neighbourhood" is impossible to bui…

NotJustBikes doesn't have a particularly great reputation among transit enthusiasts. A lot of his videos have become repetitive and focused on complaints rather than specific ways …

That is true for all algorithmic iterative learning. I'm sure early models from Tesla, Waymo, Zoox, etc. were also driving a few hundred feet before the operators had to take over …

Some projects, where the constraints are hard (immovable deadlines, inflexible scope, etc.) can still benefit from detailed estimation as far as possible. This way any problems or …

Even the most cursory research into mail-in voting shows a number of safeguards designed into the process; one summary can be found at https://responsivegov.org/research/why-mail-b…

Isn't that the exact description of the current U.S. car market?

Excellent troll post. I've had a good chuckle.

iPhones and MacBooks can be serviced to replace the battery. My iPhones typically get a fresh battery around the 3-year mark, or whenever the battery health dips below 80%, and do …

I'm old enough to remember having an individual office (and, a bit later, two-person offices). Great for collaboration, because it had a whiteboard and enough space/furniture for a…

On your desktop/laptop, most tasks probably don't run inside VMs or containers. Perhaps some applications use Flatpak or snaps or similar, but the default state for many currently …

I had a fairly fun time using Auth0 a few years back. The ability to run arbitrary code hooks at various points allowed us to do pretty interesting stuff in a managed way without r…

It is indeed a power of the province. I meant the shift in responsibility for funding the healthcare programs. The initial health transfers to the provinces in the 1970s covered ap…

TL;DR chronic underfunding of the system, here's one example article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ambulance-response-ti... The federal government shifts the responsibili…

"The people in the middle of the bell curve face a dramatically less promising future than the tail end" is also the key message of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_Is_Over , …