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Unfortunately this is no longer true. The quality of the journalism is in serious doubt. One such example: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-myth-of-the-stolen-c... In additi…

You have a very simplistic view of the history. Many Arabs actually aren’t native to the land either, they moved there for work that the new Jewish immigrants provided. In fact the…

The problem is that while al jazeera can be balanced about certain topics, fact is it is entirely government funded by an authoritarian undemocratic state and on this topic in part…

You have a very simplistic view of the history. Many Arabs actually aren’t native to the land either, they moved there for work that the new Jewish immigrants provided. In fact the…

The trouble with Java exceptions is that the forced error checking is rarely handled at the call site, making the code no longer linear. Calling var a = foo();bar(a); does not nece…

Agreed. I was actually hoping the article would talk about how to log (buffer, async, files or output stream, etc). I’ve seen at least 2 cases of excessive logging causing outages:…

Not sure if this has been shared, but Yuval Harari, eloquently explains why everyone should care about this, the first invasion of a democratic peaceful country in my memory https:…

It’s tantamount to appeasement to let threats like this influence any decisions

PoW guarantees the energy has been spent to find the nonce. If one person had access to a perpetual motor, they could control the market. We assume everyone else would then have to…

This feels like an assault on truth. I skipped to the blog on “Is Bitcoin mining environmentally unfriendly” and found numerous cases of cognitive biases. Calling it fact checking …

The story “To the Driver Who Hit Me and Ran” makes me never want to get on a bike again

I worked at a startup about 10 years ago, and it was probably the most bureaucratic place I’ve ever worked. I was the 3rd employee, but my stock was negligible - incidentally the c…

This article gets many things wrong. Starting with Bitcoin, he misunderstands what the mining process is. It’s main process isn’t just to mint new coins, which is what I think he a…

While I like, and am influenced by the economist, I find their formula frustrating. After stating the opposing side they often jump to their conclusions with barely enough argument…

I built an app to scan receipts for bill splitting, although your use case is certainly interesting. Google‘s MLKit is very accurate for on device recognition. You can even feed fr…

The South African variant is almost certainly not spreading faster because of the variant but because there were super spreader events like recently 1000 people tested positive aft…

I’m not sure this is true. People are much more willing to buy a coffee/pastry rather than spend £2 on an app. It seems to me, that people definitely compartalize their spending, w…

I used to be afraid of debt, but understood this principle ever since an accounting friend told me about a luxury cruise liner he worked for. It was started buy an immigrant, and q…

A similar thing happened to me a few years back. I seriously considered changing careers, and decided not to renew my contract. I decided to try work on an idea some one suggested …

I think they’re taking more or less the right approach. I do think they could have gone further and banned big events and told anyone with cold or flu to stay at home for 7 days (i…

Since this thing isn’t going away in the next 2 weeks, seems illogical to buy too much. The advice is to buy 2 weeks of supplies in case you’re infected and can’t leave the house. …

CityAM published a really interesting article about this https://www.cityam.com/what-was-behind-fridays-national-grid... It certainly fits the given explanation