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Somewhere along the way to 10s, we lost the work flexibility. "I took care of my kids for 5 years" gets your CV discarded in an instant. So both parents, not always because they need the money, but very frequently because they're afraid to lose their career, choose to keep working.

> as much as you can into static helper functions and most of the rest into dumb private stateless functions

In our work we use C# and it is very hard, even next to impossible to make a static class pass a code review - given it's not for extension methods (which I hate... why not be explicit about the first parameter and stop acting as a part of the class </rant>). They just tell us to use IoC and move to the next point. I honestly don't know why. Our IoC library can treat a dependency as static or singleton, but those are also discouraged. Once I had a static class named GraphRequestHelpers* and the reviewer got really negative, FSM knows why. She told me that we need IoC to make everything testable and "Helper" in the name is a code-smell. Sounds cargo-culting to me but I have only 6 years of experience so who I am to know.

* Now we have RequestExtensions and everything is apparently perfect.

Exactly, the function should not be responsible to see if robot.action has any existing value. It should just return an action depending on the state.

What percentage of recycling industry is owned by packaging industry? Are there any examples?

Why doesn't recycling fully work?

Is the garbage generated from packaging higher in the countries where more recycling is made?

Sources with data and numbers would be very welcome.

He/she doesn't say that it does. I read the whole thing as "you sound passionate about this, I agree with your suspicions, why not bring some sources".

I'm sorry but you're presenting us just some anecdotal evidence. Where I'm living, there's no obvious evidence to show that recycling doesn't work. These don't prove anything.

Well, I do cloud-sync but it's super helpful. I don't know if SK would be SK without cloud-sync.

Could be useful if you wrote your neural net with Applescript, I guess.

".org" domain suggests (to me, at least) that this is a free service, however, it won't stay free.

There is no information about how it works, let alone some technical aspects - interesting, especially considering the name. About link doesn't work as well.

Apparently "all the censorship comes from the left" is the new "there is no global warming".

> WebAssembly has the potential to say play video games, including AAA titles, without having to install anything on your computer.

It depends on how you define "being installed". All files living on FileAPI and IndexedDB does not make too much difference than using direct file access and SQLite. They will be cached and they will live on your computer. Well, at least until your browser faces storage pressure and decides to randomly delete website data.

I mean, yeah, everything lives in a sandbox and there's potentially less security issues. Not having to give admin privileges to an application which allows you to build houses out of blocks is a good idea. On the other hand, the capabilities of the platform is increasing like crazy and it's just a matter of time before it converges with the operating system itself.

So, I don't know. The whole situation is weird. I think we needed better operating systems with granular permissions and we're getting there using a very convoluted way.

> Even C# has a better, readable and concise syntax

C# has amazingly easy-to-read syntax, but maybe I'm biased because I'm most comfortable with C-like syntaxes.

Disclaimer: I'm not well informed about crypto-currencies. This is just to test if I'm understanding correctly.

So you are doing mixing. One of your users is a criminal, and that is apparent to you as you can trace where their coins came from. In your stash, you have 100BTC, 10 of which is the share from the criminal. He/she orders 1BTC to be transferred to a private wallet. You make a transfer to the private wallet from your stash, but you know exactly who gave the order. When the police comes to you, you will be forced to tell them who gave the order. Am I missing something? If I'm correct, then the attacker has to trust the mixer.

"Treadmill is bad because it was invented as a torture device and one famous person died three years after doing it excessively. It is like running without any of the good stuff".

This is an actual argument from the article.

I have one of the offline models which seems to randomly crash around and it really is good enough. I wonder if mapping significantly improves anything to justify paying so much more (and apparently having to share the generated map with the manufacturer). Wouldn't it be invalidated every time you move a chair?

When that "Get Office" thing first popped-up, I was sure my PC was infected with malware and came to the brink of formatting my hard drive.

Later came the random console pop-up from the automatic WSL updates [1] and then I did panic enough to actually format all the things but that's another story.

[1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/841

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I thought using "var" is deprecated... If there's anyone who has the chance to use let/const but still doesn't, I'd be very curious to learn about their reasoning

Yeah, also the same for Turkey under the dictatorship of Erdoğan. Internet there is amazingly robust. They also iterate among beautiful blocked page designs for artistic freedom: https://www.google.com/search?q=eri%C5%9Fim+engellenmi%C5%9F...

Back when this craziness started, they had even blocked the sites giving STI information because they had "sex" in them. Not sure how it is right now.

The promotion in any form for alcoholic beverages are banned too. This is the web site for the biggest beer maker: http://efespilsen.com.tr/ (It says basically that according to a change in regulation, they aren't allowed to have a customer-facing website anymore).

Anecdotal evidence (myself) suggests that those effects, if there is any at all, would not be significant :)

I do wonder though, how do you scientifically analyse that? Ask people if they were exposed to porn as a kid to pick your evaluation candidates? That'd be unreliable. Expose some underage people to porn (horrible) and evaluate them after tens of years? I don't think so...