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> In software, sadly, age isn't much of an asset. Most of what you spend your time learning today will be irrelevant in a few years.

Kind of—but everything old is new again. I was surprised to find I actually have a pretty good understanding of Babel/typescript/webpack because they’re just reimplementing the c compiler and linker in JavaScript, albeit with very little solid documentation. Most of the interesting language ideas are pretty old—smalltalk still looks futuristic to me. Thinking about systemic failure is really hard and that takes time to develop.

Well they’re also strangling the internet with their ads, so I’m not sure they aren’t also structurally evil.

I have worked there myself in the past and it was very pleasant.

And yet, they still have ads. It’s not clear what I’m paying for. They aren’t just annoying, they are a clear violation of basic journalism—you don’t publish things that will scare the advertisers away, which is almost all news.

Management is a separate class, it’s called the petite bourgeois. It’s basically the same class as small business owners. Maybe you’re thinking of castes which implicitly preclude social mobility?

Hell yea I am jealous, have you met rich people? Do you realize how they live and how little they work and the absolutely shitty society that we have to live in to keep them rich? Of course I am jealous. How are you not? I see you also work for Google. Do you realize how much money Eric Schmidt makes off your labor while fucking women in some mansion? Do you realize how shitty the internet is for the sole purpose of selling ads? How shitty our phones are for the purpose of selling apps? Fuck appreciating that. Rich people ruin it for everyone.

> The expired food might have come from a different seller initially, but you were sent it because of Amazon's supply line optimisations.

Amazon took my cash, amazon should be responsible. The fact that they can't keep track of the goods they sell (also seems to be a problem with counterfeits) is their problem, even if they do their best to blame their suppliers.

> pro-union propaganda party

Typically you just say "organizing".

It is certainly telling you never mentioned the IRS.

For non technical users why ia this interesting?

This is still a phenomenon worth examining. How is this cowardly? The author can’t do anything about the IRS. What else is there to say about megachurches that hasn’t been said?

Sounds racist man.

“natural child raising”—what, baiting your child with hyenas on the bayou? This is just a lame excuse to explain your kid when you could just accept responsibility.

If only we could retroactively demote all the managers who suck at it!

In other words, be a servant.

> There’s nothing wrong with this, by the way. You’re in the business of unemploying people.

Grow a damn backbone, man. Sprout some values. You’ll find life more worth living. Have some pride in your work.

> By valuing our offsprings' safety so highly we're effectively raising hatchlings in tubs, as opposed to wild fish gifted with a hardy stream upbringing.

How do you show this? The number of parameters leading to success is ludicrously high. Is there even a frailty in need of explaining? How about all the other environmental factors, like lack of the opportunity to invest in careers and cheap subsidized housing like our grandparents got? This sounds suspiciously like pop psych crap.

Mashed potatoes have a ridiculously high glycemic index, so yes. I don’t know about raw.

I was under the impression the battery packs are where a LOT of the depreciation comes from, so that's not really a valid comparison unless it's used with a fresh battery pack.

Public transit has a great economic argument today for both reducing city emissions, monthly and repair costs, and having a great profile for harvesting brake energy. In many cases you can electrify via wire and save on battery costs. Consumer cars though? Still 100% a luxury. I imagine a lot of other parameters would factor into why you would electrify vs buying off the (still tiny) market other than price.

I bet you see these first used in bulk by people re-electrifying hobby cars + upgrading fleets of vans and taxis.

> It seems it's a much safer/cheaper/simpler/reliable option to purchase a vehicle designed from the ground up for an electric drivetrain and all of the nuances that go along with that.

Cheaper? Have you seen what electric cars retail for? How are you comparing this to the price of conversion?

I’d love to hear the connection explained.

Who wakes up saying "gosh my life would be so much better if I could just buy things faster"?

Someone will have to answer for X’s crimes.

I would take 64 gigs of memory/4 cores over 16gigs/12 cores any day. The idea of many core is simply less preposterous than it was even a few years ago.

Why not both?

> Hopefully, a similar investigation will be announced presently.

This will never happen.

My development environment has 12 discrete docker processes. The more cores the merrier!

I suppose Tinder-style rapid decision apps might excel with a touch screen. Infinite scrollable timelines are certainly built for touchscreens, though I can’t think the last time I asked for one....

99% of the time the reason I put up with touch screens is so I don’t have to sit at my desk.

It’s almost like silicon valley mostly makes broken crap.

Thanks :)

Also stop supporting the Nobel Prizes. They’re bullshit.

> “Offering the user a choice of which IPs to connect to" is absurd given Apple's target market.

How do you figure? What is Apple’s target market anyway, Mr Confidently Speaking On My Grandmother’s Behalf?