For how much modern social science depends on writing code and how much people pick up coding in varying degrees of informal ways, there SHOULD be a full code review process. Ppl will fuck up even if it’s fairly benign most of the time. Tho journals should pay professionals to do this

Is this Tel Aviv?

Ok, I've seen this piece on military obedience shared enough that I feel the need to respond. tl;dr I agree that "obey all legal orders" can feel like a dangerous oversimplification at times, but this goes way too far in the opposite direction #CivMilSkywww.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/o...

Opinion | There’s a Dangerous Misconception About the Military’s Obligations to the President

The prospect of a second Trump administration has rekindled an important debate from four years ago.

You’re laughing? The DBAs just created a bunch of empty lookup tables to fool users and you’re laughing?

“Talk to me goose” I whisper as I crack open my 7th beer of the day and get ready to fire up the circular saw

here is the crux of the piece

Thank you for the update regarding JFKs ability to jork it

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Murder Fell At The Fastest Pace Ever Recorded In 2023

Takeaways from the FBI's Crime in the United States 2023 report.

Also the FBI released full data five days after this was published which is… notable

This is egregiously dishonest. Murder fell by 11% according to UCR data in 2023 which is not only a decrease but the largest decrease on record, with the next largest decrease of 9% having taken place in 1996 during the great crime decline. This is just actively lying at this point imo