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Very cool, thanks for making this!

I did this, and I went through the support process to totally delete my account, including purchased content. Sometimes I wish I could still play SC2 with friends, but expressing support for freedom of speech in Hong Kong and the sinosphere is more important.

LEED sucks. This has been known for a long time. But instead of bashing it, we should be asking: is there an alternative? If not, how could we create one?

There's almost nothing productive in this article so let's try not to amplify its reach by talking about it too much on public social media.

Best way to respond to this is to ignore it.

To everyone saying "my credit card pays me 2% to use it", no, your credit card charges the merchant 2.3%+ to use it, that gets bundled into the price, and they give you 2% of that as a kickback.

Nurses, doctors, and other healthcare workers in the US are being taken advantage of right now and threatening a strike is one of the few ways they can maintain a balance of power in the system.

I support the strike and I hope the folks ignoring covid precautions understand there is a limited supply of goodwill and of people who can save your ass if you get a bad case.

Doctors arguably have it worse right now because due to how they're employed, a good number of them have no legal ability to unionize or engage in collective bargaining.

Average med school debt at graduation is roughly $200k. Now imagine you are a recent graduate from residency or medical school, and you have a comorbidity or risk factor for severe covid. Unless you have some outside funding source to pay your debt, you have no choice not to work, likely in a hospital that has little incentive to keep you safe.

Even ignoring tuition, there is a massive opportunity cost to training a doctor, and these are the folks we're relying on to keep us healthy for decades into the future. Situation's pretty shit. Least we could do is lock down until every healthcare worker has been vaccinated.

Not true (source: I recently did a bunch of car buying research and a used Leaf was my number 2 choice; ended up not getting it).

These are electric drivetrains (simpler transmission, etc.) so there are fewer things that can go wrong relative to an ICE car. Obv range is limited with a used Leaf but that's not a problem for most city trips.

I worry a lot about this but if this is the price of competing with the Google/Apple duopoly maybe it's worth it.

Metaprogramming Ruby by Paolo Perrotta has the best explanation of Ruby's object system I've seen.

It's a must-read for anyone working with Ruby, even if you have no interest in metaprogramming. Despite the title, it's a very approachable and widely-applicable book.

Even with targeted ads how often is it that someone actually (1) wants the thing and (2) buying the thing is net good for them and for society?

I'm sympathetic to the argument that ads could reduce information asymmetry, make the market more efficient, and thus count as a social good. The problem is that advertisers' incentives aren't the same as society or the consumer's.

Look at it this way: Google exists. If you know you want something, it's not hard to find online. Ergo, if you often find yourself buying something because you saw it in an ad, what does that say about your rationality as a consumer?

In practice, corporations buy ads to manufacture demand because their products are neither things consumers or society actually wants, nor things consumers rationally choose to seek out.

It's partly biological but there are still many existing cultural attitudes that discourage husbands from performining traditionally "feminine" roles/tasks when caring for their kids.

The author's point about being over-critical of sexism is well-taken, but by reducing the sexist attitudes towards, for example, stay-at-home dads, it may be possible to help more women in STEM have fully productive careers.