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DNA is extremely flexible, there's no macroscopic form or shape it can't take, as various insects camouflaging themselves as sticks and leaves and what not shows. So the idea we'll…

The example of convergence between fish and dolphins, birds and insects, the infamous "why does everything evolve into crabs" study and so on should tell us that while we should be…

There's nothing about TODO lists that says you have one list per person. And "TODO lists don't work, unless you have many of them" is counterintuitive and misleading at best.

> To get things done, you have to decide on the one or few things you should be working on at a point in time. A todo list doesn't help with that. If you have 100 things to do, cer…

Are companies expected to follow laws the day they get signed, even if it might take over an year to implement compliance? Think about it. Because here's what happened: > The penal…

Do you know what the phrase "throw the book at them" means. It means you have a rich set of laws, which punish various offenses which look fine on paper, but in practice everyone v…

I did call the argument delusional, yes. But even if I decided to call the commenter names, that wouldn't be ad hominem (link above on details). It's rude, it's uncivilized maybe, …

While from purely monetary perspective this seems like it tips the scales more to a balance, from systematic perspective, this is more corruption on top of corruption. You have pol…

I think people's reaction to Copilot betrays their own shortcomings. * If you have so little care, agency and skill that using Copilot results in you generating mountains of code y…

What web developers think: - User: "This site is broken. Fuck Safari, I want Chrome on my iPhone!" What users actually think: - User: "This site is broken. Fuck it, I'll go to anot…

Ah yes, the Facebook Browser Engine... (?)

Microsoft recently abandoned their own browser engine and switched to Chromium. What are they supposed to lose again?

That's not ad hominem. You have it backwards. Ad hominem doesn't mean "don't say bad words about me and my opinions". Ad hominem would be disregarding an opinion not by discussing …

No one builds a RFID system because one guy really needed water that one time , can we at least be serious here? No one is discussing some hypothetical situation where someone knoc…

What you suggest actually can't work, it means applications have no control themselves what engine they run on. Browser engines can't just be a config setting, you're basically ask…

So which parties are "losing money" here?

So your answer to all specific problems I stated is "I reject your world and substitute my own". Not one reasonable and intellectually honest person expects that the average phone …

So in a nutshell, the author's argument is that Safari is "killing the web" because apps written specifically for Chrome, may not run on Safari. I find it cringeworthy to even have…

Users can't make an informed choice about what browser engine they use. They don't understand what a browser engine is, and what impact it has on their security, battery performanc…

Apple allows alternate browsers on iOS. Good luck having bunch of lawyers figure out what the impact of a browser "engine" is. And honestly good luck having regular users care abou…

How can you say "I assume" things which are literally SAID in the parent comment? Do you know what "assume" means? As for the "all we know" thesis, for all you know the Sun might n…

> I've always been baffled by why Google search — the flagship product by the world's largest tech company — has so many totally undocumented features. If I can speculate on their …

So is your thesis going to be that attracting groups of homeless people in your restaurant is positive or neutral with regards to attracting customers, staff dealing with problems,…

Programming is unbounded, it spans the range from so easy, a child can do it untrained, to impossibly complex. So "it's hard" is the natural outcome, given we always strive to opti…

> You're refuting a different point than the one the parent comment made. They didn't claim that no water is ever shipped. They just claimed that these types of drinks machines don…