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It's not the people that matter, it's the politicians. They can say "it'll help fund our pensions without a tax increase or budget cuts" to quell the voters and have a much be…

I've heard this argument about spell checkers in Word, browsers, etc as well. Anecdotally, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some truth to it: in the early 2010s I saw tons of people sayi…

The margins the FDA allows for class 2 and third group nutrients are also quite generous. I'm sure they made sense back when they were first introduced, but as food science has improved, the stan…

Third is academia. Even with a marginal academic discount, it doesn't come close to offsetting the price hikes. When the choice is between slashing personnel budget and minimizing the usage of&#x…

People have this idea that short sellers are market manipulators who conspire to wipe out innocent day traders' life savings and trigger mass layoffs with the stroke of a pen (hence the term &quo…

SCOTUS is out of touch with reality. And I'm not reacting to Trump-era decisions - even under Obama, the justices were watering down the Bill of Rights in cases like Salinas v. Texas (2013). Prev…

I view reliance on Leetcode-style exercises as an attempt at putting a hard number on a notoriously subjective process, whether because a company is cargo-culting big tech, HR wants to eliminate subje…

That's a really good point. Perhaps the protocol should be expanded with an explicit identifier unique to an extant legal entity (or string of identifiers, to account for ownership changes like a…

My father changed careers and dissolved his business over a decade ago, at which point he let his old domain lapse. A couple years ago, I began to wonder if anyone was still trying to reach him, so I …