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Same reason you “can’t” do that with textbooks. The whole reason it’s cheap is the vast majority of the cost is shouldered by the west. If you were able to execute this arbitrage (…

What ever happened to exploring computing through just building small, cool, things? Maybe I'm old now, but this trope has been parroted here and elsewhere as a panacea. Need a job…

> but I've come to accept that the only way to not be bullied or harassed online is to not expose yourself too much online I've been on the internet for almost 30 years. This is so…

You're missing the point of the pension and social security. There are, and has always, been a large portion of society making "just enough". Maxing out your 401k requires 19,500 d…

Regardless of your feelings you're missing the point. The middle class is the bellwether of the economy. Though, I don't think you're truly interested in the economy at large. When…

This is correct but a little ranty. Men have consistently surpassed women in both suicide attempts and suicides (see upthread for statistics) but no one seems to care. This "why wo…

A better question might be what are the ethical limits of gene editing. How long until we stumble over eugenics but with extra steps? It seems to me at least to be the natural conc…

I am not a fan of Tether. I'm an open critic of it in my circles and I get a lot of flak for it. But this... > A discussion paper outlining the Fed’s thinking on digital payments, …

> Workers are seen as interchangable at many places. just look at Amazon, one of the most profitable and productive companies in history, that takes pride in how it wears down its …

I ended up taking the pandemic off from my graduate classes. I am funding out of pocket (a local university so about $6,000 per year on a dev salary). I was given the option to get…

The lack of SLA/SLO/data sovereignty is an absolute non-starter. It's a decent idea but it lacks the necessary guarantees to get people to move off of their current provider (my $c…

Medium does get tiring to read... Archive link: https://archive.is/6JuaJ Using: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history/chart I looked over the article and never saw …

From what I gathered the problem is in the memory module and not memory itself. It would be like your RAM failing. No amount of rust or memory safety can help with that. Moreover y…

I wrote about this a few posts ago but it's so common to be aged out of tech for any number of reasons that I have no plans to work in it after I turn 40. If I can, great. In all l…

If you want to be even more disgusted look into how nursing home works. A family member got moved into one (against our recommendation) and they've borderline taken everything from…

Arguably? By what metric? Lisp is a standard. What implementation?

> If woman were able to travel to another country (say, USA) and do short-term entertainment work for a few months on her own terms, you will reduce human trafficking. I don't thin…

I don't know about any other countries but this is extremely common in the US. Dating is a line item in most men's budgets. In my experience, and I'm sure others, it's never pick a…

Having at one point worked in the marketing side of ecommerce Google is an absolute bane to work with if you're not clearing several hundred million per year. The entire system is …

Where I live Californians have absolutely decimated the market. A few realtor buddies of mine say they almost exclusively deal in cash buyers from there and I was almost outbid on …

Why? Landlords were forced by edict to keep non-paying tenants while simultaneously footing the bill. This is completely unfair to landlords and makes the "speculative investment" …

Agree, after using python for work on research for one of my papers it was wholly insufficient. I ended up writing more Cython than Python to achieve the performance I needed on a …