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This isn't entirely true. I went to one last week, for example. And the people there were justifiably upset that after the first meeting in which the developers were to take suggestions from the neighborhood, they had included none of their proposed suggestions. It was quite obvious that the development group had sent two people to present the project, grit their teeth as they took a beating from the neighborhood, then rush it through approval anyway. To me it felt like capitalists doing the bare minimum necessary.

"The fact that power swings from Republicans, back to Democrats, back to Republicans, and so on, illustrates that there is a very weak majority in this country and no consensus opinion on how to move forward."

I think it better illustrates how really these parties are mostly the same. As AOC said, the Democratic party is a center conservative party for the most part. Biden and Trump are a lot more similar than people would like to admit. Just look at Biden's comments about video games and you can see how much of a reactionary conservative he actually is.

Diversity is mostly a corporate "ideology"

I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted so much. Acceleration that is too slow can be very dangerous (my old girlfriend had a junker that couldn't get up to speed quickly and almost got rear ended a few times) and also disruptive to the flow of traffic. The more efficiently a car can flow through lanes (i.e. merging farther left on the highway without having the next car have to brake for you) can reduce traffic.

"but women's superior life expectancy seems soley due to high risk behavior by men when they are young and middle age"

huh?

Yes, I deleted reddit altogether and rarely read/watch the news. Yes maybe this is a "privileged" position. But it's not as if I can affect much other than local happenings in my community. The thing about most political issues is that they are all more nuanced than we pretend and unless we're experts, we're probably wrong and/or underinformed so it's mostly a waste of time anyway. I stick to a few personal axioms and leave the rest

Just an anecdote, but for my small project I recently switched from AWS to DO and am saving about 60% or more.

Maybe we're focused too much on the content of the advertising rather than methodology of advertisement. First and foremost advertising is paid speech, that is speech that would not otherwise be made if one party was not being compensated in some way or another. Obviously this definition has tons of edge cases, but it's a good starting point IMO.

While all of those coca cola ads are "true", they would be limited in scope to places that coca cola owns. So no bus stations or taxi toppers or whatever, unless they buy a fleet of taxis.

Why does anyone need satellites? This might have been a relevant question in the 80s.

Why not do it then? And write a blog post and tell us all about how it goes.

It's not like there's a shortage of work that society needs done, but that capitalists won't be able to make money off of. I think this is a perfect target for getting people on their feet.

IMO the java is more readable. Parenthesis clearly delimit the scope of the function call. How would smalltalk handle nested function calls?

I wouldn't write it either way. I would write something like bank.processTransfer(new Transfer(100, checkingAccount, savingsAccount)) where the transfer object is immutable.

Decoupling and modular design is pointless?

Most of the democratic party is conservative.

You've totally drunk the Kool-Aid. Microsoft is on a redemption storyline? Windows 10 is a complete shitshow and this will likely be the last windows machine I ever personally own. Meanwhile LibreOffice suits all my needs fine where MS Office used to stand as they slowly tried to strip away the concept of software ownership and move to SAAS. Nobody uses edge anymore and Xbox is a joke. Maybe they are hustling on the B2B side, since they seem to have skyrocketing profits somehow, but I have almost no faith in them as a consumer at this point.

All tech stocks dropped then, see FB for example

becoming less alkaline = acidifying

one just takes fewer words

In an extremely complex modern society it's nearly impossible to tell the effects that certain actions and policies will have. Popular discourse around politics and economics support this theory, since almost nobody can seem to agree. This leads to one of the best heuristics for evaluating the merits of an action as the intention of the actor or the ethics of the actor.

As someone else mentioned in the thread. Viewing NSFW content now requires signing in as well.

Agreed, I often think the world has gone crazy when completely absurd and inhuman stuff is labeled "attractive"

Similar to what you said, I often see people arguing against strawmen, or even arguing strawman on strawman. To the point where internet discourse is a simulacrum of real life politics.

Do you have any additional reading on this? I've always been interested in these topics of social network topology or systems theory or what have you but struggle to find good information on it.

I'd tend to agree. Ironically "othering" is one of the strongest social binders there is, see: religion, nationalism, etc.

Maybe crime is decreasing but the streets still barely feel safe to walk at night depending on where you are. The homeless problem seems to be getting worse though I'm not sure the statistics back it. The difference between walking around at night in Japan, China, and even Europe compared to the US is night and day honestly.

They are? Hilarious since it seemingly has no impact at all.

Yes but this is literally the point of an interview. Strip away what it says "on paper" and engage with the person directly. I'd say if they were passing over talent in the past then that's an issue with their interview process.

Nobody is saying biology is "limiting" anything. That's the crux. They are choosing something else. Not better and not worse, but something they feel better suits their needs or desires.

CS isn't some magical field that floats on air. In fact, it's mostly a miserable profession with managers who don't understand how it works, cooped up in an office the whole day under artificial white light while sitting on your ass.

Well it's basically always possible to claim that society has some hidden variable, but I'll bite. As a woman, if you want children/family you need to secure at least a certain baseline of living quality and stability before the age of 35 and realistically much earlier. This alone dramatically changes the timeline and priorities of women.

Except it isn't their responsibility. Clearly they don't have trouble making profit so why would they spend billions of dollars trying to urge people who may or may not even want the job to try and do it?