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It is more like A. light absorbed by solar panels that eventually turn into heat B. light absorbed by the ground which pretty much all becomes heat I'm pretty sure B is much greate…

> They make the earth extremely hot as they absorb so much heat from the sun What are you smoking? The sun is not sending more light to the places with solar panels. It just absorb…

In the beginning everyone thought COVID is only droplet transmission and in that case regular masks work really well because it prevents someone carrying the virus from spreading d…

we could even have generated guid on the paper records that you can look up in a database to make sure your vote is being recorded correctly, without exposing any identifying infor…

"Tao" is an old translation with (I think) the Wade-Giles system, while "Dao" uses the correct consonant that matches the Mandarin pronounciation of that word.

What are things that are OOP specific (as in not used at all in FP) other than inheritance?

Its Conway's Law, Your code organization is a reflection of your engineering teams organization. The number of repos you have should roughly be equal to how many autonomous enginee…

If your whole file is semantically the default export, then why not? There are advantages with default exports, e.g. you can name it at usage site the way you want without the `:` …

<! is less than or not equal right? which is a strict subset of !=, since anything < by definition is !=

I can see where you are coming from, but all the points you made are actually still relying on the mental health of a small group of indivduals. What prevents them from picking the…

I think any blanket policy that just apply the same rule to everybody is just lazy policy. A less lazy approach is provide the capability (through e.g. ISP or device manufacturer) …

I mean sure, you could blame cronyism for any ideology or systems because these ideologies were always presented, as the name implies, in an ideal situation. What is always importa…

Ironically, that article was written in a era where there weren't really boot camps, only CS Grads from actual universities, and in that article it specifically calls out many CS g…

Interestingly, Baidu had been selling moderator rights for boards on its Tieba (which is kind of the same as subreddits on reddit). It got lots of backlash especially after they so…

If the people who own the factories can make everything they want, then they have no incentive to expand their factories beyond what is necessary to give them what they want, and, …

Data from unknown sources should just be thoroughly checked where they enter js land to make sure they conform to type expectations. If they are, then relying on static type checki…

> React state is scoped to the outer-most box, that way it doesn't change on every render The state (of the hooks) for individual components are still scoped to that component only…

This syntax might look like it require less magic, but you still have to implement everything react does for hooks that takes care of re-rendering cycles.

I would say the issue with symbols is why I had trouble with linear algebra in college, specifically dot and cross products. The fact that they used the same symbols as scaler mult…

This is more of a risk-reward trade off that comes with anything that is more performant but more sophisticated. The same can be said about guns, but obviously the reward of having…

I don't think that's the right question to ask. It should be "Would they be happier if the tax to fund UBI was not levied"

Wouldn't you be able to job hunt while taking the furlough scheme money?

So I don't really understand this after reading the explanations. 1. You claim to have explained the height of the sticks "later". Maybe you had it explained in one of the paragrap…

So now any space station can claim to be "moon-sized fortress"

And that is part of the reason many people also criticizes the tipping system in US/Canada. An arguably broken system from another industry doesn't make for a good comparison.