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Comment · 2 months ago
Ignoring for a moment that most websites don't need any interactivity: Even for those that need it, for almost any of them something JQuery-like is more than enough. You really, really, really don't need the latest super big framework.
Comment · 2 years ago
Easy: Zero. What you describe as "desperate people" are people who would already die without "yolo[ing] on themselves", so, by definition, the worst outcome is that they still die.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
For the same reason Wikipedia suffers: People who are really good at writing factual content / good answers are not automatically good at moderation, often they are even some of the worst people for it. Moderation needs empathy, thinking about edge cases, dealing with emotions and so on. Making the people who have the most points on a Q&A site your moderators was always a recipe for disaster.

For a long time, the sheer usefulness of SO overshadowed all of this. People were willing to suffer for the sake of getting a result. But over time the quality couldn't keep up with the pure agony of having to deal with petty dictators. And finally, people just stopped going there, which means the chance that the best answer will be on SO is getting smaller, which means even less people bother with it and so on.

Comment · 2 years ago
Solr. The correct answer is Solr. All the search features of Elasticsearch (both are built on Lucene, which provides the actual search implementation) without the problems that Elastic (the company) or Elasticsearch (the product) brings with it. 99% of companies using Elasticsearch would be far better of with Solr.
Comment · 2 years ago
Well, Microsoft says that's because of the EU commission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41029590

I have my doubts, but that's at least what they give as the reason for the kernel-level access of EDR tools.

Comment · 2 years ago
Literal example of survivorship bias in the GP comment.
Comment · 2 years ago
While I agree with your comment I'd like to point out that the reason the youth is leaving is not this policy, but that there are no jobs for them. At least none that you really want to live on. That's a problem "digital nomads" are expected to not have: They have their job somewhere else, so who cares if the local job market is garbage? Though I don't think this will work out in the long term.
Comment · 2 years ago
Rather typical in Germany (they usually do it via Schufa, but the end result is the same). No idea for other countries.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure judges can reasonably find the difference between willfulness and accident (as the article states, multiple people who had no reason to help the builder missed the error) and decide accordingly.
Comment · 2 years ago
Sounds like a reasonable judgement - even if the parties didn't come to a compromise themselves - would have been to just swap lots. Lots 115 should be empty, cause the building that should be there is on 114. So, swap the deeds and be done with it.

(Unless lot 115 is completely different to 114, but doesn't sound that way)

Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for spelling this out. I always thought the same, even as a child when I first saw the film: Ariel has a deep feeling of not belonging where she is combined with a yearning for human culture. It's obvious from the movie that her falling in with the prince is just the last step in a long line of "I should be up there, not down here" and not just some spur of the moment decision.
Comment · 2 years ago
Even some results from "The Onion" seem to be in it. Looks like Google just took every website they've ever crawled as source.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah. Just the last iteration in a long list of hype terms. Big data. Cloud ready. AI. Whatever ...
Comment · 2 years ago
... I had the 'pleasure' of driving American cars and if there's one thing they don't have it's good suspension. Though maybe they finally stopped using leaf springs for newer models.

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