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Dentists are not scientists though. They suffer from a limited data set and all the other cognitive problems that we invented science to counteract.

Having said that, scientists should not make policy, but inform public health experts, who understand that science does not tell you what to do, but just the best current view of reality. These experts have to take into account cost/benefit ratios as well as science from a wide set of fields.

Luckily for fluoride in the water, they all agree!

I mean, it does also cause visual, aural, and olfactory hallucinations. Plus mess with how you perceive time.

I understood that reference!

Also the Dems were happy to continue most of Trumps policies,

I'm still waiting for the people held without a trail in Guantanamo to be released. There have been 11 years of Democratic Presidential leadership since then...

Indeed part of the reason the current Israeli government is so radically right is that Netanyahu kept having to find more desperate and less morally-centered parties to make a coalition government with.

Still, I'm happier living in a country with a dozen parties than on with only two...

European salaries for software developers are half of what they are in the USA. It's a problem on both sides of the Atlantic, honestly.

Source: software developer in Europe who usually works for American companies.

Data does not actually support the idea that politics are shifting right:

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2021/december/america-more-liberal-than-50-years-ago-but-change-not-reflected-.html

Funny but diseases usually become less virulent over time. A successful disease generally doesn't harm the host too much.

Ebola doesn't spread far because it quickly kills the carrier. The COVID-19 pandemic was basically ended because it mutated into a less dangerous variant.

It's plausible, but a quick DuckDuckGo didn't find anything about this. Do you have a reference?

That was a wild ride!

Copying is not theft.

I'm pretty sure that liquid assets are things that you can spend, so cash and bank accounts. Anything that you have to sell to buy things is not a liquid asset. (Note that we are not talking about barter. I had a friend at college who traded a snake for a VW camper, neither of which would be considered a liquid asset. Even though technically you could put the snake in a giant blender...)

Is that true? Median is literally taking the value in the middle. So if there are 30 million 70 year olds then it would be picking the 15th millionth person and using their savings.

I think that they will. Much like tech workers who had no interest in unions because they thought that they were aligned with the owners, management is going to have a rude awakening and learn that if you don't own the company then you are just labor.

Does Boeing sell plane kits? You have to source the engines separately? Or do they sell the whole plane?

Why do you think that is true? The only violence from people unhappy with a presidential election that I can think of is the MAGA insurrection in 2021.

Maine already has ranked choice voting for statewide elections. They can't fix the national system.

If the hack to at least give the person with the most votes the Presidency wins, then maybe we can work for ranked choice for Presidential elections.

Me too! I remember mansplaining to my girlfriend at the time how long it would take to visit a page and download images, and how nobody would wait that long to see pictures of cats. I underestimated how much people really want to see cat photos.

I suppose it is possible to have two PR that have changes that depend on each other. In general this just requires refactoring... typically making a third PR removing the circular dependency.

It sounds like your policy is to keep PR around a long time, maybe? Generally we try to have ours merged within a few days, before bitrot sets in.

You can make a PR against your feature branch and have that reviewed. Then the final PR against your man branch is indeed huge, but all the changes have already been reviewed, so it's just LGTM and merge that bad boy!