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If the West wanted to keep China from progressing, they should have done it 20 years ago. China now has the manpower the know-how and the funds surpass the West economically

Loan forgiveness is not a workable solution, it rewards one generation of students at the expense of the older folk who have paid and the younger folk who are not in college yet.

Software needs regular refactoring just like cars need regular maintenance. It is very difficult to determine how much time and effort to spend working on making it extendible when you're writing it the first time (even the product owner might not know how it will be used initially) but after a few months in production and a few feature requests, you'll get a better idea of what the pain points are and will be in a much better position to refactor. The problem is convincing the people who cut the check to allow engineers the time to do it

Maybe I'm too dumb to get this but as far as I'm concerned the only thing TikTok threatens is our productivity and the market dominance of silicon valley. They don't have your social graph or your personal information because they don't need it. They can serve you content based only on what you watch

How is this app a national security threat?

Differential and Integral Calculus (Volumes 1 & 2) – Nikolai Piskunov

Not as colorful and attractive but the adage "do not judge a book by its cover" applies so well to this masterpiece. With brief and precise explanations and high quality exercises with solutions, I went from struggling to getting A+

Democracy has little chance of working outside of a homogenous society, in a sufficiently diverse society it will eventually descend into tribal politics.