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Comment · 1 year ago
Your linked source is a completely different issue, which is that there are other tariffs designed to artificially limit trade. These are de facto quotas on trade.
Comment · 1 year ago
Before these new tariffs, Canadian tariffs on US goods were more than double US tariffs on Canadian goods, as a percentage. If we want to eliminate tariffs, the proper outcome would be for Canada to lower its preexisting tariffs. I don't think anyone in the Canadian government has proposed that solution.
Comment · 1 year ago
Squarespace is a great balance between having no website at all and WordPress.

Wix is overly complicated bloat, and you are better off just using WordPress if you need the bells and whistles or Squarespace if you don't.

Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you for commenting here. Your opinion weighs a lot for many of us.
Comment · 1 year ago
I am working through something like this right now. Rev growth is starting to slow, our headcount is growing too quickly, and the current CEO seems hyper focused on a raise but doesn't understand the current funding market (or how poor our financials look).

I have decided to "quiet quit" and start hunting for something better. Who knows, something might change, but I doubt it.

Comment · 1 year ago
The intent I think is "Lets refactor the syntax of the router so we can add more functionality without creating a boondoggle." At least from what I have seen.
Comment · 1 year ago
I disagree with this a little bit. Yes, a lot of the react-router changes are a PITA especially since some of the breaking changes are non-obvious. But most of the changes have been syntactical, and seemingly logical.

A bigger gripe with react is that everything is so interdependent that things like react-dom and react-router might as well just be part of react - if you update one, you need to update the other anyway.

Comment · 1 year ago
My son had a testicular torsion. Normally, this is 10/10 pain and vomiting and fever and shock. All sorts of awfulness. If you didn't know it, you would have assumed his pain was no more than 4/10. It took an insistent pediatric nurse to convince us that something very serious was going on and that he needed to go to the ER right away.
Comment · 1 year ago
The problem is that, despite medical science making advances abound, doctoring as a profession changes exceptionally slowly, and most doctors (especially male doctors IME) take an adversarial approach to patients who have questions.

I have a relatively common autoimmune disease. I have had much better experiences with NPs than doctors in explaining that certain medications are contraindicated for people with my disease.

Ego has always been a massive issue in medicine. I wonder if this is exclusive to the US, or if we see it everywhere.

Comment · 1 year ago
I have seen some local suits for smaller PPP loans.
Comment · 1 year ago
I never worked harder in my life than when I worked for myself.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Not sure why you are being downmodded. The abrupt about face of Facebook and Amazon/WaPo (and probably Apple, but I haven't seen any evidence there), and even the change in Musk over the last 10 years, shows one of a few realities:

1. Tech CEOs, probably like other CEOs, are easily bought.

2. Tech CEOs are terrified of retributive and/or deserved antitrust action and/or regulation changes from Trump.

3. Tech CEOs never really were the progressive allies of the Left, but needed Trump to make it safe for them to drop the mask.

The likely reality is a combination of all three.

Comment · 1 year ago
> But the best end-user software — the kind for non-technical people — is… sadly… not open-source.

Not open source yet. I firmly believe (and we have lived experientially in the last several decades) that all software will eventually be supplanted by an open source solution that becomes the industry standard.

Comment · 1 year ago
Do you not have enough supports/standoffs on your mobo? Just because your case comes with 6 doesn't mean you only need 6.

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