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stevieoop··on Deno 1.9
deno supports typescript out of the box whereas to run typescript in nodejs you need to transpile down to javscript first. deno also has some security features enabled by default like not allowing network communication unless you explicitly enable it. so that prevents malicious packages from making network requests that you might not have noticed. thats a great feature because tons of javascript projects/tools dont need to send http requests so if your tool doednt require that then you can be confident that any dependency you use is not secretly spying on you.
stevieoop··on Just Be Rich
> we should care about how wealth was generated, and the gap itself is less important

what? what makes the gap less important? its a big deal if the rich get richer while the poor keep getting poorer. so what: we should just ignore that gap, and instead praise the rich because they are so smart, and talented?

stevieoop··on Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why?
> Gates owns approximately 242,000 acres of farmland with assets totaling more than $690m

yeah thats not that much? keyword is private owner. bill gates is one of the wealthiest individuals on earth so of course if he puts a fraction of his net worth into land then he will become the biggest private owner because the other private owners dont have as much money as he does.

he is NOT the biggest land owner in the united states because there are many companies that own tons and tons of land. they just arent being compared here because they are companies, and not "private owners"

stevieoop··on Why is /usr/bin/test 4kiB smaller than /usr/bin/[?
you might also like the fact that true is an executable. try 'man true'
stevieoop··on Murder up 35.7% YTD relative to 2019 (2020)
this is not interesting? hes comparing raw murder numbers. differences of 150 murders to 160. what WOULD be interesting is the change in murder rate per capita, and compare that over a longer period of time to see if that number has actually increased significantly in the wider picture, not just for the dates that were cherry picked here