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No there shouldn’t, because then e.g. charities providing help to seriously ill cancer patients won’t be able to employ anyone.

Edit: I’m not against charities doing this where it makes sense. I wouldn’t want it to be more red tape they had to struggle with though.

I can get satellite internet in the city. Why would I move to the sticks to get satellite internet?

September 11th and the Western response to it had more to do with it. Tech companies didn’t change police behaviour, and they didn’t change laws. Those seem a greater influence on the situation.

> the leading ideology of the 21st century thus far appears to be a hyper-Christian bleeding-heart liberalism

I would love to hear the reasoning behind this claim. Perhaps it rests on a different meaning of the word “leading” than I am expecting.

Job ads for YC companies have comments disabled, yes.

I don’t know what headline you’re seeing, but “MicroStrategy Has Stock to Sell” is the headline I’m seeing.

What is “FII” in this context?

How would this affect season tickets?

If you’re good at teaching, you’ll care more about the differences in the kids from year to year, surely?

Don’t worry, the politicians keep changing the rules of what to teach and how: no two years are the same.

If you get lots of repetition in your day job, wouldn’t you want lots of novelty in your spare time?

I take issue with the article’s assertion that Go isn’t imperative.

Re your reason 4: the hardest part of political polling is working out who will actually vote. If your polls are going to get judged on their similarity to the final result, you want to filter out the people who won’t vote.

If it’s via an NSA app I have to download, then hell no.

If they provide dumb file storage, so I can write my own script to compress and encrypt stuff before uploading via a standard protocol, then maybe? Other backup services are available, as they say, but they’d either be paid or (probably) sketchier.

In fairness, a space data centre could power itself from solar 24/7 without batteries (if you’re ok with downtime over the equinox).

I share your scepticism overall though.

> space data centers would require the development of a launcher 10 times less emissive over its entire lifecycle to significantly reduce carbon-dioxide emissions

Well. Is that plausible?

When I want to know whether something is pre installed on gh actions, I go to https://github.com/actions/runner-images , click through to the image we use, and Ctrl+F for the software I’m interested in. If it’s installed, it will tell me which version is installed.

If you’re getting your runner from someone other than gh, you’ll have to check with them instead.

(2021)

The recruiters who are messaging you can’t all be internal recruiters. Explain to external recruiters why you’re looking for a slight change of direction and ask if they have something more suitable for you.

It’s strange. At a previous job I was 100% wfh. At my current job I am 20% wfh and 80% in office.

Pretty sure my wfh days now are less productive than when I was 100% wfh.

I think it’s just that I find it harder to build up and maintain habits for just one day per week.

I don’t understand what MS would get out of releasing their own distro?

Given that Tesla software engineers were sent in to assess Twitter’s codebase after Musk bought it, plus all the shenanigans around Musk’s pay package from Tesla, surely the EU would be justified in including Tesla as well? (Assuming you grant the logic of treating all these companies as a sort of unbundled conglomerate.)

If you force people to be parents, that feels like it would not lead to a great outcome for the children.

Why would anyone want to make parenting mandatory?

Hard agree on not using JS Date, but why not use Temporal API?

What’s so bad about bad grammar?

Sure, I’d prefer it if people didn’t use bad grammar, but here are some things that are higher priority:

- keeping spam off the platform

- keeping harassment off the platform

- keeping porn off the platform (unless you’re a porn social network, I guess, in which case you need to keep child porn off your platform, which in context is a harder problem)

- keeping sock puppets / psychops / etc off the platform

Also, I wouldn’t like it if people were prevented from posting due to bad grammar, and I wouldn’t like it if people were forced to rewrite their posts because of bad grammar. If people want to opt in to having their grammar corrected, then great, but don’t force it on them.

Why are many computer programmers not interested in mathematics?

Are they bad at mathematics or do they just not like it?

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You don’t, you dial into one of your employer’s telepresence robots that’s already in the office?

This is how it works with phone calls, why should telepresence be different?

This would be a stronger article if it talked about other countries’ experience with political betting.

During the UK’s general election earlier this year, there was a scandal because some Conservative insiders had used inside information to bet on the date of the election. But I’m not aware of any case where the betting has driven the politics.