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> if YouTube is deleting flat earther videos I searched for "youtube flat earth". The only evidence that they were deleting flat earther videos was a support thread claiming they were. But this was falsified by other the result
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Also a serious question: How do you know it's false? How do we know the truth of events that aren't reproducible by empirical science?
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> Funnily enough, Big Bang started as a Christian theory I don't think that's completely accurate, but it would be fair to say that resistance to the Big Bang theory was exacerbated by anti-religious sentiment. https:/&#x
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I'm not Black, but I don't think I need to be in order to answer your question. I do my best software engineering when I'm undistracted. If I've recently been treated unfairly, that's a distraction. Anything that re
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I agree and would go even farther. This article would be 0% effective if written in a neutral style. When you're trying to reach people stuck in an "us vs them" mentality, you have to identify yourself as "us" befor
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It's good to understand modules well. Understanding bundlers is less important and can be postponed. Just use let parcel do the transpiling and bundling for browsers.
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Sorry, but Average Joe needs to learn this one thing to adapt to the modern web: Say no. Average Joe doesn't need to learn what all these things are. In the unlikely event he knows what the thing is and knows that he wants it, he can a
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If your parents got to the "dinner party" and found that their friends hadn't actually invited them, but that the invitation was sent by the Mary Kay company without your parents' friends' knowledge, then I retract
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It's possible that Boston learned from SF's mistake.
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> The big difference is that surveillance was localized and didn’t follow the person That is a big difference. But the big difference is how one-sided the new surveillance is. In a small town, they knew everything about you, but you
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AFAIK invitations to Mary Kay and Tupperware parties are not lies. Your friend actually does want you to go.
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No, advertising 101 is vague lies like "America's favorite mascara". The more specific lie that "Kristopher invited you to use Facebook" takes it to a new level.
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> Have you ever thought that the reason Facebook is successful is because people choose to use it? Yes, I have thought that, before I knew any better. Now I know that Facebook became successful by making people think that other people wa
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For those like me drawn in by the bad headline, FYI the article itself uses the obviously more correct analogy of live entertainment in the streaming age. (TBH I didn't read it, just skimmed to see if they were really going to use only
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No. A VC is expected to be wrong most of the time. They can be right only once and be an excellent VC. A VC should not have a difficult time owning up to a mistake under normal circumstances. In this case, they should be able to apologize,
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Do not dismiss the small vulnerabilities (2018)(blog.detectify.com)
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When you found the fetch API horrendous were you using async/await? They make it not horrendous. You don't have to keep up with which feature ships in which browser; that's what browserslist is for. https://github.
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I haven't done that in decades. Has something changed recently that made it easier to create an ACID data store with static files? Last I looked, ACID was tricky enough with static files that it was easier just to use PostgreSQL.
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> If they were half as good as they purported to be, would they need to be pushed so hard? Food for thought The answer is yes, they would still need to be pushed hard. "Build it and they will come" works only in movies.
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For purpose 2 of good messages, "Help in maintaining a feature log", do folks here have experience with https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/#summary ?
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> PHP has taken a lot of flack over the years. Mostly from people who never really worked with it Detractors of PHP were pretty quiet when this first hit the front page. I think things might have stayed quiet without this first salvo bei
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I thought the comment was talking about PHP already being installed, so you could just start using it.
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The article is 100% about passive vs active studying and approximately 0% about repetition. Repetition is briefly touched on by pointing out that if you're 100% passively receiving information, then repetition doesn't help. The ef
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> it's always the same They're usually the same. This one forgot to flame about how the JS community is supposedly constantly reinventing things real programmers discovered decades ago. I think there's still time to edit
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I occasionally fantasize about making a film with a very unrealistic portrayal of writers.
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The design of craigslist shouts "cheap and generic" at you, which is probably best for craigslist.
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Does a crime become good if the victim is big and the perpetrator is small?
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>there is such a sheer volume of resources like this, which imply very clearly that becoming a programmer is a trivial thing I think they imply that becoming a programmer is a matter of hard work and the right explanations. I'm 10
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This looks awesome and has certainly piqued my curiosity. How long has the beta group been going? Do you have an idea of retention rate yet? And for those who drop out, why?
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I'm sorry if your company conflated diversity and inclusion with lowering hiring bars. Everywhere I've worked, that hasn't been what diversity programs are about.

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