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In practice it's not likely I'd be reading their blog, but to answer the question, it would depend on the nature of the blog post. I think it's possible to have thoughtful and well-considered arguments against affirmative act
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Absolutely. This is an organization with a set of values, whose members are thoughtful and highly educated, and they don’t want to help enrich someone whose values they find problematic. This is what free markets are all about. I’m not goin
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Going to Pearson airport in Toronto with my dad is one of my few early childhood memories. I don’t know exactly where we were but it was a popular enough spot that someone had set up a hotdog stand. In my mind it very clearly registers as a
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Seems like an unfair comment. I've had their Boomerang app on my phone for a long time. Made some fun stuff with it in the past, haven't used it in a while, but there wasn't anything particularly wrong with it. Just another n
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It strongly reminds me of the UFO stories that were all the rage a few months ago, and that military guy who testified before Congress about what he had heard from other people. Did any of that pan out? It seems not.
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It’s not a trick question. The answer is just number of greetings minus three. But it doesn’t get this consistently right in my testing.
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This article is almost entirely unsourced, citing two anonymous people who are “familiar” with a supposed letter that Reuters has not seen. This does not qualify as news. It doesn’t even rise to the level of informed speculation!
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I wrote a version of the story that it was able to solve. However here are some others that I have tried that it fails at. These are taken/adapted from papers I have looked at. 1) Tom and Nancy commute to work. Nancy’s commute takes ab
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I just wrote this version and it solved it successfully: A chemist must transport three substances from his home laboratory to his office. The three substances react with one another in dangerous ways, but only when they are unsupervised by
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Canada should get rid of the capital gains tax exemption on the sale of primary residences and use the money raised in that manner to build more housing and to help renters and the homeless. Even if they just levied a modest percentage tax,
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“As shown in research published in 2021 by BCBC (Williams, 2021a), and in the Globe and Mail (Williams and Finlayson, 2022), the OECD projects that Canada will be the worst performing economy out of 38 advanced countries over the next forty
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I’m surprised the OP and no one else in this discussion have mentioned the single biggest factor in the reduction of random social contact, which are headphones, especially earbuds. These send a clear signal of “don’t talk to me” and even i
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I totally agree (also originally a Rails dev). And with Typescript and Remix I get type safety and auto complete from the database layer (Prisma) all the way to the React UI. It’s amazing.
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Agreed. Reading/watching this stuff reminded me of my experience visiting Morocco a few years ago. We travelled through the Atlas mountains and into the desert regions bordering the Sahara and then into the Sahara itself. I was struck
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I have never been at that altitude but I had a similar experience in the Sahara a few years ago. My experience was enhanced with a little bit of Moroccan hashish. I laid on a dune and gazed at the sky and the heavens were blazing with light
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This is a very typical opinion that many religious people have about non-religious people, but I think it betrays a fundamental misunderstanding. You get your values from religion but this is not the only source of values. People readily re
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> The productivity of Rails absolutely trounces JS-framework-de-jour in my experience. It’s almost certainly the framework I would be recommending for a CRUD app, which covers the vast majority of business software. Rails is certainly pr
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This is an interesting detail - Google's autocomplete suggestions for the plaintiff's name were found to be defamatory: > Dr. Duffy became aware that when people searched her name on Google’s search engine, the Google search ba
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> Convoy had no exits because their only potential acquirers are in the same industry and are also getting completely crushed. Some great insights here and you clearly know the business. I’m curious about this last statement however. Jus
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I haven't seen this movie but will check it out. A little off-topic, but I wonder if any of you folks have some recommendations for newish anime/manga that is available to stream. I'm a long-time fan of the classics (e.g. Gho
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That’s not true. The carbon emissions of rich people are enormous compared to that of regular people. Here’s just one finding, that the richest 1% of the world’s population cause as much carbon emissions as the poorest 50%: https:/&#x
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As a privileged white collar tech worker who makes far more money than just about any service worker, I happily respond to requests to tip by tipping. It is a privilege to be able to!
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America’s government - as in, the civil service - is neither corrupt nor bad. It is a very well-run country! You need only visit America to witness how excellent it is in many ways. There is a reason that, despite its faults, America is sti
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It’s really difficult to untangle the placebo and nocebo effects. I was recently surprised to learn there are studies showing placebos can be effective even when people are told they are taking a placebo. Ie literally telling people, “take
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Are big projects ditching TypeScript?(totaltypescript.com)
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I can imagine an intelligent species on a high-G planet scratching their “heads” and wondering, as they surveil Earth, how anything could possibly survive on such a low-G planet.
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You have to start somewhere! This is a major public corporation that is making a significant investment with the goal of being carbon negative (!) by 2030. Imagine if every large corporation (and then, every corporation) made similar invest
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Here are some links to images. Photographs of the setup: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S00167061230033... And then various shapes: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s
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That’s exactly right and that’s what my family and I did when we visited NY. We are a family of four. Typical hotel accommodations suck for families! As you pointed out, it’s not just the space, it’s also the cooking facilities that are so
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I think it’s harmless to call them the “Hasanlu Lovers” because sure, the scene lends itself to that name. But to assume that that is the case seems odd to me, because these were two people who were dying together. If you discover two peopl

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