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They were done the minute mods broke their habit of moderating their subreddits. Some dedicated mods might come back, but it is really hard to return to a lost habits so the damage…

I suggested them to put: - A random video from the ones uploaded in the last minute. - Another random video, uploaded anytime In both cases, these videos should be shown regardless…

Probably blankets embedded with a conductive metal mesh in a pattern designed to block microwaves could be issued to all US personnel in foreign countries.

I remember on my first year here in Texas, driving by Arlington's city hall and there were a bunch of second amendment rights guys protesting outside, armed to the teeth with assau…

Just want to point out the law allows unlicensed carrying of a concealed firearm, keyword here is concealed. It is my understanding you already can walk around with a firearm anywh…

> If so many people have trouble implementing agile maybe it just doesn't work? The problem with agile and other empirical processes of project control is that it goes against the …

> However, after seeing how badly it can be weaponized against developers, I'm certainly ready to throw out the bathwater, and I think this is what they're talking about. Poor mana…

> Also I think the comparison to lean manufacturing has always been very shallow. I get the metaphor, I just don't think that human resources in engineering can be optimized like m…

This 100%. One of the reasons people hate Agile is because they miss this point and keep micro-managing.

Every time I see an "agile sucks" post, I take the time to read it and every time (so far) I have found they blame the process for some key part of agile they missed. Quote from th…

In agile, or any other project management process, the "customer" is not necessarily just the final user but any stakeholder. As a rule of thumb: anybody who needs regular progress…

I can confirm, I have grid-tied solar panels and have gotten outages in the middle of sunny days which is usually the time my panels are actually supplying surplus power to the gri…

This is a good idea, but i think it could go even further. Somewhat unrelated but if you really want to see how horrendously unfriendly the typical smartphone UX is, hand one to a …

Rolling their own health care company might solve only part of the issue. I think the largest driver of healthcare costs right now is price gouging by providers with their charge m…

I have been thinking on a "simple rule" that could mitigate gerrymandering: 1. No congressional district can span more than 1 partial city and/or county. This will force districts …

> It also doesn't seem like the internet regulatory state of pre-2015 was a disaster. This is a common inaccurate argument I have seen pushed by the telcos to justify repeal. There…

Based on what happened in the south of Chile, I think they might want to wait a couple more decades before claiming escaped salmon didn't gain finhold in the wild: My uncle was amo…

The article's title seems click-bait. It makes good points identifying some of the already known weaknesses in bitcoin's design, but he is basically complaining that Satoshi didn't…

Maybe we don't need a unique id at the federal level after all. Financial institutions are already required to follow KYC (Know Your Customer) laws. For this they need a way to val…

> Lenny actually changes it's response depending on what the caller does. Pauses, keywords, etc. It's actually a sequence of recordings played in the same order every time in a loo…

Think of this scenario: Oppresive government wants cloudflare to stop hosting some dissenters site. Cloudflare says no Then such government tries again, this time accusing dissente…

I sort of agree. I personally got tired of answering recruiters' questions about how much time i spent in frontend vs backend. I also realized there was an increasing trend in job …

Maybe an auditable electronic voting system: each candidate's campaign can run their own "miner" making it impossible to tamper with voter results. On the other hand such a system …

> The only issue that irks me is that I can't resize a pool after it was created, can't add new disks, can't remove one (without risking parity). Not sure why ZFS would not auto re…

Ah DCOM, fun times. Back in SQL 6.5 days (and all the MS SQL versions up to, i believe, 2005), "precompiling" queries in stored procedures was recommended for performance reasons. …