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I guess I understand (and respect) the argument that you only want to run code that you can vet and easily modify. But I don't think most people feel that way - I think most people expect that they're getting some service (lik
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I'm not really sure I get the point. Simply opening a browser means you're allowing the browser developer to run code on your computer, and you're giving them permission to do so by downloading, installing and using their sof
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Even if this were true (and sibling posts make compelling counterarguments), you've completely overlooked that the value of a unit of engineering time varies wildly . Spending weeks of engineering time re-implementing all the security
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I think we're talking about two different issues (support for modern CSS layouts and working around the frustrating limitations of existing email CSS). Anything that helps reduce the need to remember magic incantations (in comments!)
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You stated categorically that "society and legislators should only forbid harmful action" rather than "compelling helpful action" and then chose a particularly nonsensical example of "compelling helpful action"
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Obviously not. If doctors can't take care of their patients within a normal working day, the answer is to have more doctors rather than make the existing ones work unsustainably long hours.
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Harvard's Shorenstein Center has studied this, and there's a strong correlation between local newspapers closing and corruption in local politics increasing. (You may be addressing national politics which is a different matter e
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If private firms are only beholden to the profits of their shareholders (i.e., the way modern capitalism is mostly structured), I agree with you and I think that's what we're seeing here: Facebook dissolving this team because they
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Actually, Piketty doesn't concede this point and makes the extremely important distinction between aggregate wealth and wealth distribution . What Rognlie does point out is the incredible importance of real estate in the growth of
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There is hardly any bureaucracy around income taxes. As a sibling post mentions, it's the insistence on legislating through the tax code (via deductions and credits) that makes the IRS' job incredibly complicated.
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My guess is that the original intent of the legislation wasn't to force users to click about 20 buttons in order to opt-out (IANAL but this seems to run directly counter to the mandate that it must be as easy to withdraw consent as it
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I don't think SES is particularly hard to use. That being said, there are a huge number of caveats: * Email HTML is gnarly. Hope you like tables. The vast majority of web developers aren't equipped to write email HTML for somethin
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Yes, but the GP wasn't talking about some objective notion of "control" - they were talking about some subjective "feeling" of control and how that translates to perceptions of risk and danger. Driving a car feels l
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I'm not sure it'd change the calculus for the UK or France because they are NATO members which effectively ensures their second strike capability. (It certainly might change the cost/benefit calculation on building submarines
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Even though this seems paradoxical, there's actually a logic to it. One of the reasons countries like the United States and Russia (previously, the USSR) maintain such large nuclear arsenals is to project a credible thread of a second
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> That's pretty broad as written. From what the recital says it even applies if you are gathering data the could be used for profiling even if you are not actually currently profiling. I'm not aware of legal cases that have spe
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> If an EU citizen accesses your website in America, that's still within GDPR scope. No, that's not correct. You have to be clearly intending to (not just incidentally happening to) offer goods or services to an EU data subject
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It's incredibly easy to simply add the ticket number to branch names (or commits if you're rebasing your branches when you merge). Many times the ticket isn't helpful, but "just make the commit/branch self-explanato
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I 100% agree with this. I love Docker, Terraform, etc. because it's much closer to the world I usually inhabit than patching drivers on physical servers, but I find it frustrating that once every month or two I'm asked to solve so
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The average time to exit is something like 8-10 years right now. Are you suggesting you can pick the startups founded over the last year or two that are going to have a big IPO in 2030?
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The type system does help a lot, but I find the tests matter more for the next engineer(s) who need to touch your code. Modifying code you didn't write and don't 100% understand while being sure you didn't break existing feat
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I think the iPhone isn't the only possible comparison here. Sure, the iPhone blew minds, but what about the iPad? Apple Watch? Airpods? Apple TV? None of these are bad devices (in fact, they're all pretty solid) - they're jus
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I don't think this is necessarily true. Consider that the reason many people were in SF in the first place was because their job required them to be there and they didn't have a choice; now that they have a choice, perhaps many
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While companies move off Heroku because of the pricing, there's still a huge addressable market there given that the Heroku ecosystem (including all its addons) is much more extensive than other similar services. The OP discusses this
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In traditional qualitative research, you'd usually have a bunch of experts get together and figure out a set of topics (or import and adapt a set of topics from similar work) before you go about classifying the bulk of your data.
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I agree that this is a cool. That being said, the results show that we have a long, long way to go. The topics are pretty incoherent: what are "would", "should", and "use" doing in there? The words have no cont
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My experience is that almost any startup needs to write some complex SQL and has to deal with slow query performance, so at least one or two engineers tend to be good at SQL/databases/query plans/indexing/etc. They may n
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Having recently had to take over a GraphQL + Relay project in the last ~6 months, I agree with this. When things work (e.g., the frontend/backend magically staying in sync) it feels really great. But with the amount of tech you're
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I imagine that they're mostly targeting sports where the university doesn't typically offer (full) scholarships. That's probably why basketball and football aren't included. There's also the possibility that the stu
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> It's a huge political experiment Perhaps with regards to "scale" this may be true, but in most ways I disagree. There were hundreds of democracies in the ancient world - particularly in Greece - and they all tended to

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