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I think you need to clarify what you mean by "private". Are you referring to making methods private?

When you make a method public, you are making a promise to users that you won't make any breaking changes to that API without a major version upgrade. Once something is out there, you can't take it back. So if you have some functionality that isn't meant to be used by the outside world but is used to serve your API, then you wouldn't want to expose that and tie your hands in the future.

This got me to actually update and I love the new minimal theme. I also like having CPU/Memory usage statistics in the status bar.

I see two posts that can be construed as pro-China within the last year (This being one of them).

> Who is going to be able to afford the products if we all are replaced by robots in the workplace?

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> When robotic manufacturing eventually becomes cheaper and faster than manufacturing in China

That is a straw man argument. Manufacturing is one of the leading frontiers in automation. It's going to be cheaper to manufacture things outside of China due to automation long before a significant enough portion of the workforce is out of work due to automation and unable to afford the manufactured goods.

Involuntary psychological manipulation is messed up regardless of the intent.

You sort of answered your own question. Yes, there are people who are smart but poor. But they are significantly outnumbered by those who are poor but don't have great financial/investment sense. Since there isn't really a good way to differentiate between the two, you have to choose between letting many people be scammed to enable the few to invest or prevent the few from investing to protect the majority.

It sounds like the person you responded to corrected it themselves.

Good thing we have the option to get free credit monitoring... that we just received from the last time our data was carelessly handled.

Agreed.

I believe technology as a whole is light-years ahead of where it would be if companies treated all of their findings and system designs as closely-guarded secrets. I am relatively early in my career and I get to open-source a project that I have been working on for the first time and it feels great.

It would be difficult to allow people to actually do what makes them happiest vs doing what the can do to make themselves happy within the limitations of their life situations.

My girlfriend went on a 10 day retreat earlier this year. She said that for much of the time there is literally nothing to do other than think. You are forced to acknowledge and confront the thoughts you have as a result of past experiences, which are easy to ignore and let fester when you have the distractions of daily life to keep your brain preoccupied.

During the retreat, there is regularly coaching on how to acknowledge these thoughts and feelings and let them go. So the idea behind these retreats is to give you the tools to deal with these thoughts and feelings and then put you in a situation where you are almost forced to confront them. That's what the parent commenter was referring to by "consuming".

My girlfriend had a fantastic experience and said that she is in a much better mental state than she was before.

Disclaimer: These are my thoughts as I understand it from secondhand experience. Definitely look more into yourself if it's something you want to learn more about.

They were making the argument that the headline shouldn't use an intentionally misleading word when there is a much better suited word that accurately and clearly conveys the meaning. Using a "technically correct" word isn't a defense when the vast majority of your target audience isn't going to properly understand the true meaning.

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Unfortunately, the fact that you feel that way is exactly why it's a good decision for Google or Amazon to buy them.