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Please define safe? The stabbings and acid attacks suggest otherwise Please define functioning police force? The fact the police had to remember that turning up to burglaries is a …

10 years ago the entry level SWE salary for FANG was about 160k USD. Today, about 100K GBP or EUR are still "senior" SWE salaries at a lot of non-FANG tech companies around UK and …

Yes - writing PHP in 2024 is a crime that we should hold PH accountable for.

I got shutdown on twitter on this subject once - but I maintain can crime stats go down while crime goes up? As crime rates go up (and police get flooded) do people stop reporting …

off topic, but if I view using incognito then just click YES or REJECT ALL->confirm is that a way to escape this madness? Or should I just nope out of pages like this, seems like t…

What does ignoring babies when they cry have to do with them growing up to be terrified adults?

I am personally atheist/apathetic. The closest thing you could get me to profess a religious fervour to is exercise (or martial arts) and mother nature. That said, I am a huge prop…

I'm sure there are people who straddle both

Twitter. Look for people that aren't trying to bamboozle you with wishywashy arguments or anyone who tries to make things sound too simple or are sales-y. Best is to follow people …

>Just the usual reminder that people should not be taking financial advice from random people on the internet. There are lots of people on the internet putting out super valuable i…

emergent behaviour in complex systems is still reasonably simple, (eg OpenOffice won't print on a Tuesday [0] or moving my mouse makes Windows faster [1]) but maybe that makes it e…

I have done my fair share of drugs and as much fun as they were, the experience was nowhere near close to the peak moments of my life to date. YMMV Proposing to my fiancee, attendi…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom) Nine prestigious schools were investigated by Clarendon (including Merchant Taylors' School and St. Paul's School) and …

Slightly late to this thread - I heard a rumour that Citi were using Clojure, anyone able to confirm whether this is true for the SG dev team?

yes - I very often absentmindedly open Clash out of habit even if I wasn't intending to play it.

>I very clearly and explicitly said "money they didn't have" in my first post and was talking about financial costs. fair - I missed that context when reading the immediate respons…

So I haven't played Clash of Clans but know Clash Royale exceptionally well (with a some dedicated training could probably shoot for global 10k league finish) So speaking from expe…

financially? ie they played an f2p got hooked and spent dumped their money into oblivion such that they couldn't financially recover? Getting addicted to an F2P game and losing you…

sincere question - how big of a problem (in terms of #people suffering) is there of people spending beyond their means on online cosmetics? I could see How common is the pattern fo…

I think those numbers are all relative? If you're a bored prince with billions of liquid cash and even more billions of yielding assets, do you really care about 10-20k of weekly o…

Quite the opposite - I'm not sure how many eminent mathematicians have the background to have gone far in politics. The early pandemic outlined how many politicians lacked even the…

>If anything you should feel shame for your lack of self awareness here This is no place for these kinds of statements. Parent posed a question that can 100% be read charitably. In…

I think the whole point is that OP appealed, got hard rejection and can't escalate or even compromise. Now their unrelated YouTube Music account is locked

I mean this is obviously reductionist but let's cherry pick some examples from the UK, bastion of the free. It's run by an apparently corrupt government [0] The NHS falls over ever…

You're right that WhatsApp really took their sweet time to copy WeChat. I wonder though whether there were mitigating factors. I know bringing WA onto the FB infra was a big job. A…