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Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
> many countries like Singapore, etc. prove this easily

Economic freedom is a necessary but not sufficient condition for political freedom.

Comment · 4 months ago
Are you saying the reason people don't like pair programming is because it's considered more expensive than it's worth?
Comment · 4 months ago
Everyone inherently knows this, that's why they reach out to others when stuck on a bug (see also rubber-ducking). But why is it so hard to convince individuals and organizations of the benefits of pair programming?
Comment · 4 months ago
That was a scene in The Office. The salesmen phone the cheaper competitor's customer service while on a sales call to let them see how long they would wait on hold if they needed support.

That said, I had an experience recently where the chatbot replaced the phone tree that led to a human and it was very helpful.

Comment · 9 months ago
> Why would you spend your time and effort building a house that earns you $50k when for the same time and effort you could build a house that earns you $150k?

Luxury housing is exempt from rent-control laws in places where those exist.

Comment · 11 months ago
How many 9s does lyft guarantee?
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
> Yeah, because he was guarding them against the current administration abusing the Justice Department to go after them. Same reason he pardoned Fauci and others.

Are pre-emptive pardons a common thing for American presidents to do?

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
that's why no one every buys TVs
Comment · 1 year ago
> Yet, it creates zero value.

Then why do people give them money?

Comment · 1 year ago
edit: the funeral home published this

previous comment: could have been programmed as `Time.now - 1.day` to be published if no action was taken on the day of

Comment · 1 year ago
according to chatgpt, 25% of people die of cancer in canada; presumably dying of cancer is a lot worse than MAID so one might expect this number to grow beyond 5% unless there are just that many people that object to it for themselves on philosophical grounds

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