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Curious if you have any links about the rapid progression of robotics (as someone who is not educated on the topic). It was my feeling with robotics that the more challenging aspec…

Monorepo != all devs having merge permissions to all directories. Every single large monorepo company will have granular permissions on who can approve PRs into which directories b…

I don’t think we have a great track record at fully understanding these complex biological systems well enough to engineer life.

The issue is that algorithms are like a casino for your time. We all know that gambling addicts exist and how destructive it is to their lives, the casino exploits behaviors and ge…

Crowdsourced reviews often provide objective information that is not offered by the restaurant. Sometimes the omission is unintentional, but more importantly, independent reviews w…

It is interesting from a space-faring species perspective. By the time we can embark to other planets/asteroids our biology might require us to lug around significantly more techno…

Citymapper shows this in their transit directions. They tell you the best part of the train to get on and the best subway entrance/exit.

I think it’s not entirely accurate to say that we “learn” to walk from a zero state. It’s clear that our DNA has embedded knowledge of how to walk and it develops our body appropri…

This neglects the first reason listed in the article for why you would use a lock. > Efficiency: Taking a lock saves you from unnecessarily doing the same work twice (e.g. some exp…

The copters can fly into a net suspended from the airship, rather than needing to gain all the altitude themselves.

This is pure speculation, but is it possible that Android never would have been successful (or as successful) if they did not bow to the carriers? By taking carrier-friendly positi…

I don’t believe that necessity will dictate our ability to create these technologies, the challenges are significant. Capitalism adjusting for reduced supply and greater demand by …

I don’t think we’re anywhere near the level of general robotics and intelligence that would obsolete human labor. None of the most labor intensive industries have been able to full…

An anecdote does not prove that RealPage doesn’t have a greater impact in other markets… That’s just not how logic works. You also fail to consider that rents may have fallen furth…

This definitely requires some citations. There is no evidence that you are presenting that supports the 2-5% claim. I don’t think you are fully understanding the impact of price co…

Palantir runs on the customer’s own cloud, or a major cloud provider of the customer’s choosing in the region of their choosing. There’s no data aggregation/sharing across customer…

Inputs to standard libraries will obviously never NPE if you pass in a non-null value. For outputs, a lot of standard collection .get() calls are unnecessary when you’re working wi…

Usually you’re using a lot of Optional and Streams, so the collection method returns null inside a .map() and you don’t need to think about it. To be clear, it is handled by the ch…

If you properly handle not returning/using nulls in your checkstyle rules and don’t allow nulls to be deserialized anywhere (forcing the use of Optional), then you can pretty much …

If you have insufficient material how can you capture the king? Checkmate is by definition one move before forced capture of the king, the game doesn’t change by making it end one …

Given domains are not encrypted I’m not sure this holds true. Attackers can already target financial websites, messaging websites, etc…

My primary mechanism to load books on my Kindle is via emailing ePubs, granted, I'm probably in the minority of users but I couldn't ask for an easier workflow.

Aren’t these taxations generally regressive given poor people spend ~100% of their income and ultra rich people spend <1%. So you’re taxing the poor person on all of their money bu…

Yes, I mean the amount that the cost is inflated by is much greater than 4%.

Profit can be manipulated. Creating a giant bureaucracy of overpaid administrators and middlemen can siphon off any amount of money while declaring no profit.