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I don't for a minute believe it is necessary to have been coding since you were 12 in order to do most jobs in Silicon Valley. But if companies decide to discount people because of it, then you will absolutely filter out people who come from lower economic backgrounds.

This is a great example of institutional racism.

Edit: the internet says 4 minutes

Edit: just to be clear, I'm not talking about about belief in the existence of the gods, I'm talking about the myths of the gods, which were mixed and matched and changed and definitely were not subject to any kind of orthodoxy.

  - Load all if jQuery when we just need a few functions
  - Load all of Bootstrap when we just need a grid system
  - Load a whole templating library for one little widget ("we'll need more later")
  - Load a whole icon don't when we're only using two of them
  - Load a whiz bang carousel library when we only need to roatate a few images
  - Use prefab themes that do all of these things and more (shudder, *parallax*) with the idea of providing nontechnical users with the ability to do anything they can imagine without learning to code a little bit

And then you say, well, we'll just do an approximation and say Dec 1, but then you've chosen a truly arbitrary date that, again, is just as approximate to the "actual" meteorological date as Dec 22, and is off by close to the same amount.

Edit: because this post sounds pretty vehement, I just want to leaven it by saying that I recognize that all of these things are essentially arbitrary and this is not, in the end, a topic that is actually extremely important to me. I do think it's worthwhile to point out that the meteorological seasons are not as clearly better as this article makes them out to be. There are reasons for using astronomical winter, and they aren't really any worse than the reasons for using meteorological winter, as far as I can tell.

We use astronomical seasons instead because they are predictable, they are basically the same every year, and they definitively take place on a given date.

For the question of starting winter on the solstice vs halfway between solstice and equinox, we do get more cold weather after solstice than before. I think this is less important though – starting halfway between has made sense to me ever since I was a kid and learned what solstice and equinox meant.

This to me is the key paragraph. Why not wait until we reach or exceed target inflation, when they risk tanking our still very fragile economy, and then being unable to do anything about it since rates would still be close to zero?

There is a common idea when faced with abstract or conceptual art that "I could do that," or "my kid could do that." Usually though, you couldn't. I don't find the arguments in the article very convincing – to my eye he appears to be producing original works of art.