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Comment · 6 years ago
Top subreddits are pretty much all like that. The smaller subs are really what makes reddit a great place. Often as the smaller subs grow bigger, I tend to find myself unsubbing from them.
Comment · 6 years ago
In this case though we've examples of how bad it can get. Iran comes to mind. As this progresses we'll see what happens to countries who didn't attempt any quarantine or drastic measures at all.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm seeing it where I am at least. It used to 10-12 dollars per lb now it's down to 6 dollars a lb. A month ago I got some at 8 dollars a lb and I already thought it was a steal.
Comment · 6 years ago
There are services that exists that checks if a person is real or not (requiring Id, passports, real facial captures, etc). Surprised that twitter didn't even do the most basic checks.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm amazed that people seem to ignore that EVERYBODY has parents and grandparents. I fear not for myself but my parents or grandparents catching it.
Comment · 7 years ago
They're giving them a delusion of freedom so that most won't realize they're censored or passively accept it. If the government goes all out then it might cause a revolt. Soft tactics are always scarier than hard tactics.
Comment · 7 years ago
The shitty thing about Equifax is that there's no way to not be a part of their credit score system. For Visa and MC, I can choose to not use their cards and go with something else. With Equifax, I can't stop using their service to stifle their business. I'm amazed the government is not intervening in cases like these where the end consumers have no choice in the matter.
Comment · 7 years ago
Personally I've always called them flaky tests. I agree with the article that flaky tests shouldn't be ignored completely. But the issue is they take much more effort than usual test failures to debug. So it comes down to a balancing act of how much effort you're willing to spend debugging these vs the chance that it's an actual issue.

In my few years of automation experience, I've only seen 2 actual instances where the flaky tests were an actual issues and one of them should've been found by performance testing. Almost all of the rest were environment related issues. It's tough testing across all of the different platforms without running into some environment instability.

Comment · 7 years ago
I think you're onto something. Humans have started to tamper in their own evolution, whether good or bad.
Comment · 7 years ago
This is something brought up in Buddhism as change of state. Basically happiness spawns from the change state: going from normal to better state brings happiness. Same applies for going from a down state back to normal. In this case from doing something miserable back to normal. This is important because suffering follows the same logic and Buddhism emphasizes on recognizing these change of states. This helped explain the emptiness or sadness I often feel after a big reunion with family members, a big party, doing something exciting, etc. I think it also helps explain why people chasing after the constant highs will never attain the happiness they're looking for since after staying high for a period of time, it'll become the new norm.
Comment · 7 years ago
"First identified in the ear of a woman in Japan in 2009 (“auris” is Latin for “ear”), the germ has spread around the globe, mostly appearing in hospitals and nursing homes, where it afflicts people with weakened immune systems."

Looks like it managed to spread without much hindrance due to its immunity. Wonder just how common it'll get since it's so hard to get rid of.

Comment · 7 years ago
Artificial scarcity (like diamonds) to keep their rank and prestige. If everybody gets to go to MIT, then it's just another regular college and the prestige of being the "best" in order to get in will be lost. I want to know what rest of the ranks after top 10 look like and how many students they're taking.
Comment · 7 years ago
I feel like most people think credit cards are free. They are not, which is why visa and MC are billion dollar companies. The cost has just been shifted in such a way that it's not easily identifiable so people ignore it. There's definitely a cost. If the Bitcoin network can offer a lower overall cost, it could provide actual benefits.
Comment · 7 years ago
From the way you describe it, if the stabilizer reaches the point where human force is insufficient to bring it back then they're toast since MCAS is tied into the electronic stabilizer.

How did this scenario get missed during testing? You'd think they would do extra testing around the new changes.

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