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Consider an edit to your post since it’s at the top?

> If you offer someone with the expectation they can't say no, that is in fact predatory. In the absence of coercion or fraud, the offering party's expectations are irrelevant.

If someone makes you an offer and you say, "no" and they walk away, that isn't predatory.

Ok, why don't you make a test and sell it at cost?

Allowing the price to move up with market demand will encourage increases in production. It just takes some time, especially in a pandemic, for the production to catch up.

Indeed. Hopefully he didn't mean "fun distraction" in a positive way and was trying to convey it was interesting to watch develop. Especially considering he has friends in the area…

> I do wonder why "working the fields" cannot be made a good job for humans? You'll get your answer by working in the fields for a few weeks.

How can the infrastructure be built for free? Volunteer labor and donated capital?

Canada welcomes everyone* with wide, egalitarian arms - regardless of age, race, gender, identity, etc. * excluding the disabled: http://www.ccdonline.ca/en/socialpolicy/immigratio…

I'd like to read it - post the link here when you're done!

And when we say a lifetime of memories, we really mean it. With Google Photos, you can now backup and store unlimited, high-quality photos and videos, for free. In Google parlance,…

A property would be assessed at a lower value if it didn't have any HVAC appliances installed in it. Since most properties start with such appliances, replacing them or upgrading t…

The runtime, Core CLR is is open source with MIT and porting is underway: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr

My wife likes to order some detergents, soaps, and other supplies from Amazon, but one rather cumbersome aspect is all the extra packaging that has to be torn down and recycled or …

Logic: claiming to be a current apologist of DVCS while simultaneously positing that DVCS should be abandoned.

Good to see they fixed this security bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095859 A proxy could inject cookies on a 407 response and even bypass the authentication pro…

> Are all functions commented? No.

Are you saying Microsoft should have intentionally excluded a means to browse http content and instead directed customers to be on the lookout for consumer magazines with a demo di…

I was there in the 90s. Only having access to Windows when the Internet became common, guess how I went about learning there were other browsers out there and downloading Netscape?…

And some unison whistling at the end to complete the cliche. Weird they would even have a video for something like this, leading me to be more suspicious of the mechanisms and data…

The open sourcing moves were in the works well before Nadella was CEO.

Hours worked doesn't always contribute to burnout. I can easily feel burnout working 40 hour weeks filled with unsatisfying work (e.g. bureaucratic paperwork, interruptions for uni…

The resources they are consuming are for the ultimate goal of satisfying consumer demand in an efficient enough way to profit from it. Are you a consumer? If so, you're an direct a…

Buying a parallel policy could help. I don't understand why the U.S. government has a tax code that effectively makes the most important type of insurance the easiest to loose.

> We use Ember at work, although I wish we used React. Could you expand on why you prefer React? I have not tried React yet, but am interested to hear thoughts from someone who's u…