Lists of best and worst things always omit something obvious or include something stupid as a way to make discussion of the list go viral.

That would be awesome until the first time your brain got sunburned.

Can I get a bulletproof one?

Neither "Tsarnaev" nor "Tsarnayev" is the correct spelling; the correct spelling is "ЦÐÑнÐÌÐÐ".

As another commenter mentioned, utility companies solved this problem decades ago with technology like Soundex. Our intelligence apparatus is apparently crippled by incompetence, laziness, haste, provincialism, or all of the above.

Maybe before we had three generations of stupid parents taught by stupid teachers...

That argument works until you start allowing people to trademark things like colors.

Exactly.

It's not an absurd notion. Refusing to utilize available technology is an error of action, not an error of inaction.

"You certainly have no right to violate the integrity of anyone else's body by forcing drugs into their bodies."

Fair enough. The other option is to quarantine them. They can exercise their freedom, but they will not be allowed to leave their own property, ever, for any reason, until they have been vaccinated. If they demonstrate a proclivity to violate this restriction, the penalty will be forced vaccination.

"ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for breaking it" - It should be. If smart laypeople can't figure out the law, the law is wrong, period.

"Their target market is kind of niche" - Niche or not, their target market is the people who are saying they should give Sparkfun a break. 2 + 2 = ?

That's a bullshit rule that trademark lawyers invented to protect their own jobs. Common sense and human decency should override it.

It's called The People. Stop withholding relevant information from the responsible watchdog organization, and everything will work itself out.

It's not a "self-righteous crusade", and it has nothing to do with "higher morality". Anti-vaxxers threaten my family in a very real way. Merely taking their kids is better than they deserve.

Then the problem is the algorithm used to evaluate those teachers, not the fact that they are being evaluated.

"I played around at writing code, but I never actually learned any of the other skills that are just as much a part of being a programmer."

If you haven't learned those skills in fifteen years as a professional, the problem isn't your age. I became a professional programmer at the ripe old age of thirty-six, and learned all the skills you're afraid of in my first year on the job. I had to!