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Do you understand how irresponsible it is? It might be but it's obvious. How common are prions? How many prions get into the water cycle already? Prions probably don't go through the water cycle's gas phase. Are we worried about seafood? Surely lots of prions end up in oceans and lakes already.

It sounds a bit scary but it's not clear that it would change the risk profile.

Does documentation necessarily create such an obligation? That would jeopardize most open-source projects, most of which explicitly promise no warranty.

Leopold is boring, aside from being able to pull double duty as bludgeoning weapons.

Ah, so, eliminating the flu with internet memes and a McDonald's ad campaign or whatever?

There's no scenario where eradication is realistic without involving government.

I'd agree there's something you don't understand if you think the response being advocated for is generally Soviet-style communism with zero of the properties of capitalism and no shipping lanes for some reason.

Because normal mobile plans are usually billed after services are rendered, they will send you to collections if you stop paying, whatever the reason.

So doing this neatly will require a little more work than just voiding the card on file.

If only some other kind of mail had become popular to replace the lost letter volume...

Maybe they have, but whoever does the work, there is a lot of ground to cover in the space of developer tool chains. It's going to be a minute to get to a point where devs don't feel like they have to make compromises.

Terse but unhelpful.

I don't really see what's wrong with it.

It's not far off from 90s UIs but with more circular elements and less gray. Those UIs are viewed as very functional in retrospective.

However, I thought then and still think now that it's a bit ugly.

The JVM and associated ecosystem of libraries and build tools is still well-regarded and popular, even if Java-the-language isn't viewed as sexy.

Java has gotten a bit sexier lately but if it's not for you, you can try Kotlin, Scala, or one of the other dozens of languages that can compile against the JVM.

And of course there is an endless and growing number of code bases in the Java language and that won't be changing anytime soon.

This is an extremely reductive and uncharitable take on the conversations being had right now and calling it the "woke movement" shows you know what you're doing.

"Concrete" things like healthcare reform, voting reform, policing reform, tax reform, immigration reform, and women's rights have been front and center. You'd have to be looking through a very distorted lens to not see it.

I trust you pronounce "knight" and "whale" the way that gave them that spelling instead of relying on your inventory of sounds and phonotactics that you picked up from your community of native speakers.

"Traffic calming" features are retrofitted to roads all the time. Things like bringing the curb outward (often creating divided bike lanes in the process), speed bumps, and adding center islands to intersections.

The icon is arguably more accessible to the casual user.

You started at so complicated that tax avoidance happens by accident and now you're talking about finances so simple you could drop it off at HR Block.

A simpler tax code would likely make for fewer unintended loopholes so revenue may very well go up but I don't find "oopsie" to be a remotely plausible explanation for this state of affairs.

The wealthy have wealth managers who know exactly what they are doing.

I agree that it's not much like diamonds.

DeBeers was essentially a cartel, serving in a role kind of like a central bank. They manipulated the supply to keep prices high and reasonably stable and also manufactured the demand out of thin air. Their power has waned some; diamonds aren't worth much second hand anymore, but they're still overpriced at retail and there's still the legacy of marriage conventions requiring a diamond, now with the additional caveat that it must be natural.

The idea of DeBeers is anathema to the ideals of crypto currency, even if the reality of it is far from perfect.

Ultrasound is just sound above frequencies that humans can hear, which is a vast range from ~20khz up to practical physical limits, gigahertz at least. Your body has resonant parts that can be damaged by frequencies in the _audible_ range, the chief parts being in your ears but other parts, too, if the sound is sufficiently loud, e.g. a shockwave from a powerful explosion. So amplitude (volume) is clearly very important.

All that to say, I don't think there's any cause here to draw suspicion upon sonograms or other time-tested procedures.

If living is debt then you can charge it to my parents' account. I didn't make the sale.

Ah, morality and the purpose of existence, topics that are famously settled and not open to serious debate or conflicting interpretations.

Written policies don't change that quickly. Policing, aka the execution of those policies, can be swayed by firings, appointments, executive order, and political pressure. Trump used these avenues more than most.

If they're not gaining enough new customers to offset the losses of those that eventually leave the platform or go out of business, and if we take it as a given that over long periods of time all businesses will eventually disappear or reshuffle their technology stack, then the mainframe market is shrinking. Possibly very slowly but it's still attrition.

That might make it good business for a long time but it would be a stretch to call it thriving, and it provides gentle but salient cause for businesses to consider migration.

I can see why you worry your commentary will be perceived as sexist.

The proverbial ship had sailed on this one. Factlet would be a conspicuous alternative.

Favor the meaning people actually use and let the history of factoid be an interesting factoid.

In linguistics, these kinds of implicatures (e.g. Can you pass the salt?) are called pragmatics. Sometimes people like to play dumb but with rare exception they do understand what is being implied. This can be irritating.

Most smart TVs turn on nearly instantaneously because they do not really shut down with a typical "soft off", so neither do they need to boot up with "soft on".

It seems on the face of things that a good expert would know about these psychological heuristics and would deliberately blind themselves, according to some method suitable for the field.

I doubt it's reliably the case that experts will be immune to the tricks of the human brain, unless they don't own one.

Taking the bigger picture, those rewards and disputes aren't free. These things get paid for by transaction fees, cardholders that carry balances, and vendors taking a loss. On the whole, prices for everything go up, but people fortunate enough to have "good" credit cards get a slight discount at the expense of those who don't.

I'm not necessarily saying this system is better or worse than some alternative, just pointing out that it's not all upside.

Perjury is for courtrooms after you take an oath. Lying to law enforcement is categorically not perjury.