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Comment · 8 months ago
The de jure minimium age to purchase tobacco is 21 now in the US, so I guess anyone see to sell tobacco products to those under that age could be held responsible as well.
Comment · 9 months ago
I assume it would increase the storage usage, which they say they are trying to avoid in that example.
Comment · 9 months ago
The original paper would be: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.16648

The part the article OP linked to would be based off the line:

  To put these percentage changes in terms of interest to policy makers, a 10% decrease in gambling expenditure in NSW would result in 4579 fewer ASS offences; 2867 fewer BESD offences; 1380 fewer BESND offences; 1398 fewer MVT offences; 2361 fewer SFMV offences; and 3793 fewer FRD offences 2 each year
Comment · 9 months ago
Why are you refusing to state the cause?
Comment · 10 months ago
The point the OP made was specifically to call out what they deemed as doublespeak of the word ban. I made no comment on why any given book is justifiably banned or "filtered".
Comment · 10 months ago
Filtering content sounds like doublespeak for banning to me. The title is Top 52 Banned Books: The Most Banned Books in U.S. Schools, how is it that inaccurate?
Comment · 10 months ago
I don't understand how this an outrageous claim. You might say a luxury sports car is objectively better than a cheap minivan, but that is no good to someone who needs to transport around a family.

Or is you problem with the word any instead of many?

Comment · 1 year ago
I think that is a misrepresentation of what the parent was saying. OP is not suggesting everyones gets to do what makes them happy, but rather they are free to say what is important for their happiness, even if others disagree.
Comment · 1 year ago
This blog about an architecture change is about the Tudum website specifically, not the whole of Netflix.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Overall agree with the sentiment, but I would add a more specific Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) such as: "Fix test issues caused by non-breaking space character \xa0".

Tells me exactly what the problem was straight away, but I'm still free to choose to read more if I want to know more.

Comment · 2 years ago
Did you run the Go benchmarks on the same laptop to compare?
Comment · 3 years ago
Maybe there is a better word than problem, but I think you can frame these all as solving problems. Facebook was created to have "a directory of information for college students". There was other social networks and other ways to get in touch with other students, but this way made things easier and funner. Apple's goal was to have a more user-friendly personal computer. Amazon wanted to make ordering books online possible.
Comment · 3 years ago
OP meant Advent of Code I assume, in reference to programming on Christmas Eve.
Comment · 3 years ago
For example if a better DX leads to faster development or less bugs. Especially when the difference between the delivered UX will likely be performance related rather than a functional/visual difference. Nearly all technology choices make trade-offs like this.

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