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Economist so often is just amoral false equivalence.

A pillow.

This is another sign of what's already going on. It's getting into backlash territory.

r/confidentlyincorrect

Nothing can do James Balwin's words justice except his writing and recordings. Every time I think, "oh I'm probably not in the mood for something like that," he captures me again. What a brilliant person.

Carbon Tax is the best incentive here.

When done properly it is indeed a great practice.

But so many don't. The way the modern tech industry functions makes it hard to consistently get right, sadly. I've left two companies in the past two years where computational resources for automated testing and validation were simply not available. One didn't have any manual QA beyond the implementing developer. I'm in a better situation now, but those companies still exist. They're not exactly tiny startups either.

For all its strengths, without any amount of validation, RWD is very likely to lead to such issues. Unfortunately many industry execs are unsympathetic, seeing RWD as little more than a way to get two things for the price of one.

Responsive design was a neat idea, but has failed in the context of the modern web and tech industry.

Reading that, any winner of the affected awards, however deserving, should decline their award. This year's Hugos are clearly illegitimate.

This is a misunderstanding of the UN's primary purpose. The UN is a diplomatic organization meant to enable a baseline minimum amount of diplomatic interaction. It's primary raison d'etre is preventing a world war / nuclear war. If military might was not respected, then nations would leave the negotiating table and large wars would be harder to avoid. The veto was instrumental in establishing the UN in the first place.

Amazingly Google is still the best unpaid search engine, as bad as it has become. Terrible websites have completely taken over the web. To find actual information you need access ProQuest or EBESCOhost or something like that, though their indexes are much smaller.

In the mid aughts every time Google updated their ranking, and results shuffled it was called the "Google dance". We sorely need a major Google dance.