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Taking the middle road with a story with few details on Medium doesn't help anyone.
Third party ads with javascript can and have been used to introduce malware, through deception or zero-day/drive-by exploits, even on otherwise reputable sites. It is for that reason that I block ads.
The recyclables belong to the city once I leave it out for recycling. They collect the value from it, including any deposit value.
As a Taxpayer, I want this value to go to the city.
When "three strikes" was foolishly overturned by pro-crime Californians, the amount that you have to steal to be charged with a felony also increased. So people can steal items from cars and doorsteps, in addition to recyclables, and never have to worry about spending a day in prison.
So you can get exactly the hardware you want and a stable experience.
1900/day isn't very extreme. It's what I do on days I don't go to the gym (and 2200/day on days I do go). And I'm not underweight either--I'm within the healthy BMI range. People just eat too much food!
As she appeared to be a non-technical person mysteriously employed by GitHub as some consolation to some organization (IIRC it was called the "Ada Initiative") I realized that github is no longer a technology company. It's a Social Justice company. Good luck to them--I don't even disagree with the basic premise--but I like my git repo companies to be worried about git.
Why are you afraid of rational discussion?
We don't like to use Github anymore because of the politics there. Example: We had a project involving software filters that included this sentence in the description:
> Phase is related to time, but a pure time delay does not involve any phase shift. A pure time delay or "group delay" is constant with frequency. Phase shift varies with frequency and can advance or retard as the frequency changes.
We got a note from a woman who works at github who was apparently scanning open source projects for "offensive" words. Our project was flagged for the use of the word "retard".
We removed our project and never used github again.