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Likewise for lotto tickets.

Cactus leather is a new trend. I don't own any cactus leather products so I can't say how good it is, but surely it's possible to replace cowhide with something. Even vegan (plasti…

Just to finish off this Goldilocks story: I've been vegan for four years, and previously ate a meat and dairy heavy diet. I noticed basically no change to my gut health--it has bee…

Of course it runs at a loss. It’s a public service funded by taxes. The military also “runs at a loss”—should we expect it to be profitable?

Reproduced in Safari on macOS Monterey. "And. And. And. And." caused no problems. "And. And. And. And. And. And." also crashes (5 "And."s is a substring, so makes sense). I cannot …

I have Amazon Day in NYC as well. Wasn't aware that it doesn't exist everywhere.

FYI, my email to careers@upduo.com bounced.

I always type -- for en dash. Usually text fields that accept markdown-like syntax will correct it, but I just leave it if they don't.

Wow, thank you for sharing WebLiero. I haven't played that game in ages--so excited to try it out.

The only time I've actually liked this pattern is in some New York Times stories. They do it very well. Example: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/17/world/asia/in...

I'm a bilingual American (English and Russian), and I didn't know the word "polyglot" until a year ago. I learned it as part of a software localization project--it has never come u…

In my ideal world, firing employees would be easy, common, and not catastrophic for the employee. Of course, this requires a strong social safety net to make sure people can go a f…

As another person who has struggled with depressive issues at various points in my life, I really like your list. I have ticked every one of those boxes at one time or another; all…

I haven't encountered a single person in my young, left-wing, NYC bubble that demands I actively support trans women in female sport leagues, as opposed to not opposing them. I don…

Singular "they" is pretty widely accepted today. Nothing wrong about it. "You" can also be singular or plural. > Is “they” singular or plural? The answer is both. As of 2019, most …

Not according to California: https://cannabis.ca.gov/resources/laws-and-regulations

I prefer daylight in the morning. It's easier for me to wake up and be alert after sunrise, and I feel like a zombie before sunrise. Don't really care if the sun sets at 5:30 or 6:…

It has a lot of contributors nowadays, but Thibault made the original site on his own. https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/graphs/contributors

It's still a lot of energy to push leaves around for no good reason. But yes, much better than gas.

I don't have strong feelings about Electron, but 50MB more memory for the same functionality does seem like a lot. If every app I have open on my machine suddenly used 50MB more me…

This really hits home for another JS outsider that likes the language but not the ecosystem. I like to do small personal projects in Node. Simple things like consuming the Google S…

For Windows I would say it is. Windows doesn't come with vi, nano, or any other terminal text editor, and some kind of text editor is needed for pretty much anything you would do w…

It's fine for simple things. I referenced it a lot when I was first learning JS and HTML because it was usually at the top of Google results. I think MDN is strictly better.

Yes, there are policy-focused epidemiologists and informatics-focused epidemiologists. My partner is the latter, so I'm much more familiar with that world, and that's what I associ…

Yes, I'd say hunting and fishing don't have this problem. I have other ethical issues with eating animals, but hunting wildlife is orders of magnitude better than industrial agricu…