Harimwakairi

It doesn't work in court. FUD works in business because people are (necessarily) risk-averse. If a giant company whose legal team is larger than your entire payroll says they will find some way to sue you for doing X, are you really going to gamble your business to do it? Even if you're fairly sure they're blowing smoke, that's a hard decision to make.

Parent of a toddler here, and always looking for best practices.

Can you give any more detail about how this works? At what age did you start doing it, what's in the boxes, and how did you introduce the idea to your kids?

It's technically a type of cheating, but it's used here to mean profoundly bad luck.

A cold deck is one that has been rigged to the advantage of one player, and then swapped in after the cut and shuffle (hence its "coldness"). Typically the deck would be stacked to give the victim a fantastically good hand, but the cheater one that's slightly better. The victim would bet a great deal thinking their hand was good only to lose at the end.

Players now use the term to describe the rare occasions when someone loses with a particularly strong hand in a fair game.

> What are these people personally doing to ensure that they are respecting women, creating the right kind of social climate at work, etc?

Part of the reason to go to the walkout was to find out what to do. People didn't just stand there doing nothing. They listened to women speak about their experiences and ask for specific, concrete actions from attendees that would lead to less sexual harassment, bias, and associated garbage.

Given that flutterstudio.app isn't made by Google, I'm not sure what you're implying.

> For someone called the "most hated man in America", he actually seemed like a nice person.

Not to be an ass, but many horrible people are skilled at manipulating an audience and crafting a particular persona. This man couldn't have defrauded his investors without a great degree of charisma and the ability to appear trustworthy and likable.

Can you give a little more detail about what you'd like to see? What would the ideal example look like for you?

Flutter (along with Dart) is used for AdWords, which is Google's mission-critical, billion-dollar business. It doesn't get much bigger than that.

It's also a clear counterexample to the idea that Google always abandons projects.

There's a few.

- Flutter renders the UI itself rather than using native components, so you get the same experience on both iOS and Android.

- Flutter uses Dart, which can be compiled AOT, rather than relying on an interpreter.

- Flutter is completely open source, tools, engine, all of it. You can go a long way down before hitting iOS platform code, for example, that you don't have source access for.

There others, but those are the biggies for me.