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Doubling over 10-12 years is an average annual inflation rate of about 7% . It's not 2%, but it isn't 15% either.

That statement is only supportable if vegans had a policy of annihilating meat-eating humans, which seems anathema to the vegan philosophy.

So maybe we can qualify that by saying "one day, no human will eat meat harvested from unethical or otherwise ecologically destructive livestock-farming practices."

One could still run a numbers station? There's no way to prove the code words have any meaning beyond what is obvious.

The drug may end up in the manure, and the parasites may encounter it there at a marginally-lethal dose. When the parasite progresses further in its life cycle, its offspring may be resistant when they infect the next livestock animal.

Most parasites have a life-cycle that includes time spent outside the preferred host animal, including in zoonotic species that may not have symptomatic infections. They may acquire resistance in any stage, in any place they encountered the drug.

For AWS, as fully remote, for ridiculously high compensation, yes. Otherwise, no.

As a user, I have observed product searching and sorting to remain in a nigh-unusable state for decades now. I cannot fathom how such a state could be permitted to persist in any well-managed development team.

As a laborer, I have followed journalism covering treatment of workers, both in warehouses and on delivery routes. This led me to classify Amazon as a sociopathic corporation.

As a software professional, I have been repeatedly pinged by recruiters who seem to have no awareness of my value, or how much of my time Amazon's hiring process proposes to waste. And reports of working conditions seem strongly dependent on a random (to me) assignment to a specific team. Turnover and retention varies wildly.

The password-change form should be using a password field, and that should not be allowing any code or scripts to grab the plaintext stored in it.

If the code that compares your current password to the new password can read the plaintext of your passwords, so too could a malicious program.

Using HTML input type="password" alone is not sufficient protection. The same steps that protect password changes from malicious attackers must necessarily protect them enforcement of bad IT security policy.

I think "unsubscribe" should only be offered after a customer has been charged. Before that, it should be "cancel" or "annul".

For instance, if there is a "free trial" period, wait until after that expires, and the customer has been charged, before offering an "unsubscribe".

But aside from the hair-splitting, yes, you are absolutely correct. If I have instant buyer's remorse, I should be able to click it away just as instantly.

If that policy is enforceable, someone would have to be storing passwords in plaintext, or the hashing algorithm is too weak.

IT shouldn't be able to tell anything about plaintext password similarity beyond equals or not-equals.

Perhaps those problems are US problems, not specifically fission power problems? Does it look any different in France?

I find chitchat and small talk with the restaurant staff to be exceedingly creepy. As an introvert, I take it as a symptom of abusive management.

I'd wager cash that the "12" in "Level 12" is a reference to apostleList.count() .

The time is now to dredge and dump, and build fixed oceanic platforms at their territorial extremes, while the construction crews can still breathe air and weld cheaply.

The only motivation any other country has to preserve the EEZ of Tuvalu is to prevent Chinese fishermen from overfishing that part of the ocean into a dead zone, or Chinese excavators drilling all the oil/minerals out of the seabed. So they should play up that aspect, and then they may attract the necessary investment to make a big enough pile of sand at the right coordinates.

Somebody has to stock up. Just-in-time delivery didn't, and that's why we're in this supply chain situation.

In the future, not only is it possible your money will buy you less, it is also possible that no amount of money, no matter how large, can obtain what you need.

For instance, anything with a silicon chip in it. For some goods, every known upstream retailer is out of stock, with no idea when it will be replenished, and the resellers are doing business at way above MSRP.

For some bizarre reason, management has not yet assigned a task to their programmer underlings to automated themselves out of existence. I can't imagine why.

I don't think it's a matter of trust. Management sees their job as setting priorities and resource allocation. So they shoehorn that into everything they touch. They require estimates, so they can divide impact by effort and then assign the highest ratios first, without regard to necessity or dependencies or technical debt.

The minimum viable product would take 2h-4h. A professor shouldn't be teaching students to prematurely optimize or to gold-plate their first effort.

Deliver version 1 before starting version 2.