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> Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.

Guess that excludes everyone at Facebook and Lockheed Martin.

I'm not opposed to tax revenue generation, but the cigarette tax is a regressive tax on a product that is harmful. In the interest of public health wouldn't it be better to eliminate tobacco?

Cool. I've always found these anti-smoking government actions to be disingenuous. The government runs campaigns to discourage smoking with one hand and with the other raises taxes on cigarettes. Why not just ban nicotine and tobacco products outright?

Considering that RAM in the Macbook Pro is not upgradeable, buy as much RAM as you can afford now.

What do we mean by "good" in this sentence? I've worked with plenty of programmers whose output a lot of code quickly, but the code is difficult to understand and maintain. Others whose output takes more time, but the solutions are elegant, well structured, and maintainable. Coding is a craft and assessing whether or not a programmer is good has as much to do with the audience as with any metric of quality.

I draw parallels to the world of literature, sure James Patterson sells a lot of books, but is he a "good" writer? I would say no, but the millions of copies he has sold make a counter claim that cannot be simply dismissed.

Only about half of the United States was a slave economy. In the north where slavery was not prevalent, industrialization outpaced the agrarian south. Then after the US Civil War, industrialization took off with the First Transcontinental Railroad being completed in 1869.

I love this so much! I'm an iOS and Android developer. Please reach out if you need help developing or testing. Email address in my profile.

I came here to mention this book. I think it's a great introduction to how computers work and well written.

Somewhat off-topic: Why can't lithium (or other elements) be synthesized in a lab for production use?

Isn't that still a human issue?

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I had a curved monitor at one of my previous companies. To be honest I didn't find the experience substantially different than a non-curved monitor. YMMV.

Not reading, but there's a great podcast called "Stoicism on Fire"[0] that I found to be enlightening.

0: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stoicism-on-fire/id136...

This isn't Stoicism. There's no eudaimonia in that way of life which is a fundamental part of Stoicism.

It refers to a 45 rpm vinyl record album from Germany.

It was when I commented.

I don't understand why this is being downvoted. Addiction is a disease and shouldn't be criminalized. Part of the reason the opioid epidemic is so bad is that people don't seek help or call emergency services for fear of criminal punishment.

This doesn't sound legit.

I usually set up a notebook in some digital notebook (e.g. Microsoft OneNote) with different pages for different types of information.

This website had crappy ads and automatically downloaded some file called "sync".

You seem to be confusing Marxism with Totalitarianism. A common mistake.

Check out https://boardgamearena.com. They have an SDK.

Marxism is more a critique of capitalism than it is a theory of communism. Marx wasn't interested in prescribing "recipes for cook shops of the future." Economics isn't a field that studies things the way they are in the same sense that physics is the study of the way things are. Just because you lack the imagination to envision a different economic ordering doesn't mean that the ideology is moronic or that those of us who are students of Marx lack the brain power to understand basic economics.

Of course Biden would be worse than Trump for private equity investors. But there are a hell of a lot fewer PE investors than there are laborers who would stand to benefit from things he's proposing like a public option for health insurance.

I'm excited to try this out. I'm a fan of essays as well and always looking for high quality content.

This is a cool as a proof of concept, but seems rather user-hostile in practice.

While things like this are valuable, it still places the onus on consumers to change their behavior to combat climate change. Not until large polluters are charged for their carbon production, or are compelled to contribute to carbon removal will this have a net benefit. This is conscience-friendly capitalism at best.

A design fee of $949 makes this out of reach for small projects. Cool concept though.

This is great! I'm working on designing a language right now and I'm just getting to the point where I have to parse the AST. Looking forward to taking this course, I just purchased it on Udemy.

While this is true, it makes the claim that Amazon doesn't cost tax payers anything false.