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ansaso··on Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?
Is this a discovery!? I'm 100% sure I wrote when I first started programming and obsessively tried to get the shortest solutions on codewars.
ansaso··on Get started with 2-minute rule
If you consistently need to trick yourself into reading a page of a book there are probably deeper issues that won't be fixed by: "Eat more vegetables → Eat an apple".

Hip-shot hypothesis: The productivity literature audience is overwhelmingly intelligent people with untreated ADD & ADHD.

ansaso··on Bloomberg pays off $20m debts of 31,000 felons so they can vote in Florida
In reality they aren't KKK members though. Instead they are disproportionately black and other minorities.

Regardless of whether or not you think incarceration of minorities is systemized disenfranchisement, I think any loophole that hypothetically allows the system to chose who may vote is a bigger threat to democracy than an incentive to appeal to criminals.

Totally agree with your point that incentivizing "pandering to criminals" can be a bad thing though, just the lesser of the two imo.

ansaso··on Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
Seems so absurd that filling a form digitally is breaking tech news in 2020. PDF in a nutshell.

Does anyone see a trend moving away from the PDF standard in recent years? Tried to look for data on it but found nothing.