Just in case you're not joking: if that were the case, there would be few-to-no questions with no responses, but there are plenty of those. I won't deny it's possible there is some of that, but I doubt it's all that common.
Was really trying to figure out why you would name a fork of a project that skims the filesystem two_percent. "What, is it invoked using %% or something? That seems unw... oh. Nice." Well done.
I keep wanting to think this way as well, but then I am reminded that there are more costs for a position than just the salary most of the time. Lots of administrative overhead. I don't know actual numbers, but it's probably more of a conversion of one position into two for 30-40% of the salary at best.
I'm surprised you've never heard of a woman being unhappy because her husband wants her to do/be one thing, and she wants to do/be another. "Nagging" isn't always the stereotypical annoyance.
> A police unit parked outside a guy’s house and confirmed it was him in the real time chatroom, by cutting his internet and seeing him drop off.
I guess I'm going off of too few details probably, but this doesn't seem like a very sound strategy to me. It's certainly not impossible that the real criminal lost internet around the same time as some suspect's was cut by the police. I know I've shown up as online to other people for up to several minutes after losing internet in real-time situations (e.g. games). I suppose police just need "reasonably likely" to take action though, not definite reasons.
I don't know that I'd agree that it's a "very, very poor choice" but I can see how it would prevent Mastodon from seeing more widespread adoption. If widespread adoption isn't their goal, then it really doesn't matter though, and as you said, they made a tradeoff. I can definitely see the benefits of both ways of handling users.
Maybe it's just me, but 4.4 GB does feel like a not insignificant amount of space for something I don't have to install locally. Or for people that use it rarely.
I'm not a huge fan of Overleaf, mind you, but I agree with those that say it does have its uses. The easy collaboration for people that don't like -- or don't get how -- to use git. I wish everyone I collaborate with liked git...