Readit NewsFun example: Star wars fans and Disney aquisition.
The danger is that at some point an administration would be so adept at this that it's not painfully obvious. In theory, at the very least the electorate is informed enough at this point that they can consider this information when voting. Admittedly, that's pretty optimistic take on the US electorate however. An educated, well informed public is necessary for a successful democracy, and America's problems with education are well documented.
When I woke up this morning, I had no idea that deep sea whale carcases would constitute an entire hidden global ecosystem, but that's just another day on HN I guess.
How are they different, in your mind?
I've never cared what people refer to me as, and I've never seen anyone voice a preference for it among people I've interacted with.
I call myself a Software Engineer, because pretty much every job title I've had has used that term.
I'm personally excited about things like turbolinks and phoenix liveview, which may provide a path out of this mess.
The article talked a lot about their new dark mode feature, how they wouldn't have been able to implement it in their old tech stack, and how they were able to reduce their CSS size while adding a dark mode.
But is dark mode all that important? Even as a developer I don't care at all about FB having a dark mode, did they really need to rewrite their entire site to implement features no one cares about? Also, for a photo and video sharing site, is CSS size really important? I just loaded the page and it loaded 13.2mb worth of data while making 249 requests. Thanks for cutting down your 400kb CSS file though I guess.
Next up, I hope we don't end up needing these field hospitals because of states re-opening things too soon.
We didn't flatten the curve enough to make these hospitals useless. We simply didn't use them despite needing them.
Instead we should see this as really positive: we were working to make sure that if stay-at-home (which has cost far more than $600M) didn't work we would have space to treat people, and then we kept the infections low enough that we didn't need to use it.
>we kept the infections low enough that we didn't need to use it.
The article specifically said the hospitals were needed despite being unused. The problem was existing hospitals didn't have policies in place to use them, so instead doctors were treating patients in overrun hallways while these beds lay empty.
And that's not even getting into the complex interaction between a mother and her unborn child, including cytoplasm, mitochondrial RNA, etc. It's not like an organism springs whole cloth from DNA alone.
Anyone can verify what I'm saying if they go to scholar.google.com
Lastly, the argument of "if countries outside the US are prescribing it, it must work" is just nonsensical. Doctors prescribing a drug is not evidence a drug works.
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