I agree with the first part of what you said: individuals should take responsibilities for their actions. You don't just get to claim ignorance that your actions are having negative consequences. Therefore, it's irresponsible to recycle plastic in the US and you should throw it away.
Evolution has always occurred before our eyes, e.g. antibiotic resistant bacteria. I doubt the evolution of Covid changes anyone’s opinion on evolution.
The EU let tiny Belarus divert a domestic EU flight and kidnap an EU resident with 0 repercussions. Lithuania is commendable for their actions regarding Taiwan, but the craven EU is unlikely to desire conflict.
The WTA has made numerous attempts to contact Peng, and notified the government that the WTA would pull out of China unless they could talk to her and be assured of her freedom. If your argument is predicated on the WTA not making an effort to contact Peng, then you’re misinformed and just wrong.
Rather than make a blanket statement that people should be skeptical, can you provide a concrete reason why one should be skeptical in this case? I think most people here believe that victims of sexual assault should be able to come forward without fear of retribution. I’m curious what your counter argument is.
Re. employees not showing up to defend the company: I always find it weird when people do that. There are only downsides to speaking about your company publicly.
Why is Wikipedia being loaded a bad thing? Should they toil in near-poverty? It’s important to stockpile when times are good to survive when times are bad.
Other commenters are pointing out the logic issues with your question, but I would like to provide a direct answer.
If a number of people told me that there was a 50% chance I had cancer, then I would first check their qualifications to make sure their predictions were worth my time. Then, if I found them credible, I would be really worried about getting cancer and go through all the screenings and tests necessary to figure out which side of the 50% I was on. Would you not do the same?
Government spending isn’t about efficiency per se. First, there is the question about efficiency for whom exactly. Are these taxes less efficient for Microsoft shareholders (and large shareholders in general)? Almost certainly. But long-term investments in the populace, such as funding schools, can be more efficient on the whole in the long term if the investments pay off in the form of a more productive population. Second, efficiency is generally uncorrelated with equality at best and anti-correlated at worst. I’m not saying we need a totally equal society, but surely some work needs to be done to promote equality if we’re to have a meritocracy.
You’re ignoring the competitive landscape. You might pay for Google, but a lot of people would choose to use a free alternative if they needed to pay. The loss in users would give Google less data and make Google less effective as a search engine.
Having a box set as a tiny relic of what you consumed is pretty cool. Not only are they attractive shelf pieces, there was something cathartic about ritualistically putting the Sopranos in the DVD player during a binge. So many things we consume now are ephemeral. Do you remember that movie you watched last week, or that article you read two days ago on HN? Probably not... But, we consume so much now that a physical relic for all our media would be impractical.
Prior to this lawsuit, what did you take the old Google motto to mean? Personally, I took it to mean don’t commit evil acts [as a company]. Obviously you can pick it apart now, but it wasn’t derided as some ambiguous concept prior to this lawsuit.
That's pretty impressive! Having worked at Amazon much later, I do think that most copy changes do go through an A/B test. I remember an instance where we tested 20 different versions of a minor UI change. Interestingly, there was a wide spread in the performance of the different treatments.
Have you ever worked at a large corporation like Facebook or Amazon? They have extensive internal A/B testing frameworks that record a wide variety of user metrics for arbitrary control and treatment exposures. It's very easy to set up an A/B test and pretty much necessary for almost all changes. Additionally, employees are expected to have concrete artifacts when they go up for promotion, and A/B test results are often a large part of that.
Why should width and height be content concerns? Typically the measured width and height are the most important pieces of information needed by a layout engine.
I don’t think this is good advice. The point of a reset file is to reset everything. You don’t want to add an element later and have that element contain random default styles. Is understand how each line of a dependency works really important?
I agree with this. I remember buying mine in a busy part of SF. I opened them on the street and my iPhone instantly recognized them and paired. I didn’t even need to open the Bluetooth settings menu. Then, as soon as I put them on, the street I was on, which was so busy and chaotic just prior, became dead silent. I hadn’t experienced magic like that in a long while.
I was using the stats from the article for injuries, not deaths. I believe the quotes you provided used deaths intentionally because the probability of dying in a crash is so low. Injuries still matter (in my opinion).