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It’s not exceedingly surprising that a 3500 camera performs better than a phone. Camera sales are falling because phones are getting better, but they aren’t at the level of high end prosumer gear. $3500 is a massive amount of money to spend on any personal electronic device!

There's a great reply to this in Pod Save America, the gist of which is: politicians ALREADY don't go to Wyoming or Montana or Central California or Upstate New York. Presidential hopefuls, especially in the GE, go to swing states.

The question we should be asking is, why are Ohio, PA, Michigan and Florida more important than any other state?

I disagree for many reasons, but chief among them is that Slack is a tool, like email or JIRA are tools, to communicate between members of a team. The culture around that communication is what makes these tools useful. If a company bases their culture around real time communication and organizes both their communication tool and company accordingly, a lot of these problems disappear. Multiple channels and project channels can ensure that only relevant people get notifications. And 10 years ago, people were complaining about the constant pinging of email as a distraction from work. You can close or mute Slack!

One thing you don't mention here is the usefulness of RTC tools for remote work. I work remotely, and I can't imagine only interacting with my co-workers through email or a ticket interface. It is, for me and my company, not at all conducive to the type of innovation that makes our work successful. I think RTC tools are the closest remote employees can get to "Hey X, can I grab you for a second?" Emails are too formal, tickets are even more so. Slack is perfect for this kind of communication.

Side note: at my co., big tickets or ideas get sent in emails. You don't have to use just one tool!

It sounds like you don't read much fiction!

Think about it this way—if you came up to a random person and said "Donald Knuth is one of the most revered computer scientists in human history" and they said "well why haven't I heard of them before", would that mean Donald Knuth is a nobody, or that this person just doesn't really have any interest or background in this person's field?

> Canadian writer Margaret Atwood wrote in a review for the New York Times, "Ms. Morrison's versatility and technical and emotional range appear to know no bounds. If there were any doubts about her stature as a pre-eminent American novelist, of her own or any other generation, 'Beloved' will put them to rest."

From the 1987 review of Beloved.

Sure, maybe I was a bit hyperbolic, but it is essentially unarguable that Toni Morrison is one of the most important, respected, and lauded writers in American history.

I mean, if you took a basic look at her Wikipedia you'll see that she had won a Pulitzer and a NOBEL PRIZE before Oprah recommended any of her books.

It's okay that you don't know who someone is, but there's no need to denigrate an artist or question their bonafides because you don't know who they are.

Completely unfounded, ridiculous, and racist suggestion. Toni Morrison is one of the most revered writers in human history.

What do you mean by "internal social justice" stuff?

I really, really doubt that. At worst, it's both. CSS scoping and obfuscated class names are really popular and part of any modern JS framework.

As for obfuscated CSS classes, this is likely to use scoped CSS, which allows for components to share class names but not share class attributes.

That's kind of against the point of CSS, but it's also a useful dev tool to make your code more readable. I agree that it can be annoying on the user side, but it makes sense that they made this change.

Also, most likely, these change every deploy (when the depedency manager builds the app).

Racial diversity != economic diversity. I can see why you thought I meant that, and for that I apologize.

This is such a ridiculously bad take. NYers were against Amazon for the same reason Seattle residents were against Amazon taking over SLU. Nobody wanted 15k gentrifying jobs in LIC, half a mile from the Queensbridge Projects. Nobody wanted 15k transplant yuppies who don't want to contribute to culture at all. Nobody wanted Greenpoint, Astoria, and Williamsburg to turn (even more into) a gross similacrum of the Mission, where all the black and brown people get kicked out in favor of boring ass FAANG employees who only leave their 3k a month railroads to go to Soulcycle.

NYC is still a tech town. But it's not _only_ a tech town. You don't have to only be one thing in order to succeed.