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You should look into how he destroyed the small indie MMO Darkfall and gave the game 2/10 without ever playing it, in a Eurogamer review a few years ago. The developers had receipts and could prove that he hadn't played it.

It doesn't have any material effect on this article, but it says something about his ethics.

It would especially have been useful to see what is recommended in this day and age.

It's also Persian for "money"

Ukraine has 200k soldiers. But most of them are grunts with rifles. Russia has all kinds of equipment and combined arms. You can't really compare the two.

Satellite imaging is used by a lot of researchers and non-profits to analyze concentration camps in North Korea[0] and it's one of the few sources that we have access to. Would you consider offering free-of-charge images of these camps to researchers and human rights organisations?

[0] https://www.aaas.org/resources/geospatial-technologies-and-h...

[0] https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/12000/asa24010201...

I wish you had some screenshots on the page

I don't think this follows. What you are saying is basically "All Bs must be a subset of A. Therefore dogs like the sun."

> So if you want to color every different part like operators, symbols, braces, with a different color, and you try to do this on C++, it is not going to be a small task...

For a lot of modes, Emacs does this using regex.

Buddhism also talks a lot about purity. It doesn't necessarily follow that those practices should be abandoned or even avoided, just because parallels can be drawn with religion.

Let's say that I spent some time brewing your favorite tea and that I did everything right so that the tea was ~perfect~. And then I took a pin and dipped it in feces, and then dipped the tip of that pin into your tea. Would that in any way have any effect on your enjoyment of the tea?

Could programming, and perhaps many other things, work the same way? Maybe we would all be creating better software if we were a little more religious with our code?

Unfortunately, you're misunderstanding stoicism. It's a very different way of looking at life, that can take a very long time to grasp.

You should read up on Cato the younger, who for generations was held up by stoics as an example of a very virtuous person, and his fight against Caesar and tyranny.

Charles De Gaulle once said: "Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."

If you are a technical/rational type, a lot of the information on meditation can seem ...well, wacky. That's why I would suggest listening to a few episodes of Sam Harris' podcast. Specifically those about the mind and consciousness in general. He's got a background in neuroscience and approaches this subject from a viewpoint that you might feel more comfortable with.

He's also written a whole book about this topic, called "Waking Up: a Guide to Spirituality Without Religion", which I think might be of interest to you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMiPBy4Zwag

Teaching other people is a great way to learn something yourself, and a lot of times you don't really understand a concept until it's explained in a slightly different way.

I really don't see the problem with people reaching out and trying to share their skills and knowledge with other people. To teach something you don't have to be the world's foremost expert on a subject, you just need to know more than the person you are teaching.

> That last part is madness.

Europe has had a lot of bad experiences when it comes to how we've treated our minorities, and the census has often been used as a tool for finding "undesirables". And I'm not only talking about countries like Germany here; Sweden had a policy of forced sterilisation for reasons of "racial hygiene", that it didn't discontinue until 1975.

http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1625_reg.html

I think it's an ErgoDox.

> It is extremely unlikely that any post-2008 Intel hardware will ever be supported in libreboot, due to severe security and freedom issues; so severe, that the libreboot project recommends avoiding all modern Intel hardware. If you have an Intel based system affected by the problems described below, then you should get rid of it as soon as possible.

https://libreboot.org/faq/#intel

So you've never sent an email to someone with a Gmail account? Or you've never let anyone with whatsapp on their phone, add you to their contacts?

I used it to learn APL, and it really is a great resource.

The military actually opposed PALs. They considered them to be an additional point of failure, and did everything in their power to prevent having them installed. Once you understand this, the decision to set all nuclear launch codes to 00000000 starts to make a little more sense.

Emacs can do this using the built-in tramp-mode.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode

> for us to go from writing with only consonants to using vowels for the first time

Speaking as someone who has studied cuneiform and Akkadian, I would say that this claim isn't true. Here's a vowel that predates the period that you mentioned[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(cuneiform)

Assuming that you are somewhat familiar with assembly programming and know how to produce a syntax tree, getting it to output compilable LLVM IR should take you at most a couple of days.

I use emacs and just press the dot button to access an additional layer on my keyboard with the special characters. The APL characters are surprisingly easy to learn and in my experience superior to the ASCII based ones used by J et al.

I think the closest thing I can compare them to, would be using musical or mathematical notation vs trying to describe the same things with text. Using notation has a slight learning curve, but is superior in day-to-day usage.

The European Parliment doesn't have the power to propose new laws.

> Maybe you can tell us something about their coding practices. A friend of mine who work at GS told me they have an absolutely massive ball of spaghetti that takes 7 hours to compile. That's for their trading systems.

In case no one with actual experience responds to you, you might want to check out Flash Boys[0], which spends a little time talking about GS's code. From what I've read in that book and in other places, what you heard seems to be the correct.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Wall-Street-Revolt/dp/0393...

> Actually those obligations are very carefully worded to allow US to weasel out of it if necessary.

The only reason the US keeps 30 000 troops so close to the DMZ in South Korea, is so that they won't be able to weasel out. Make no mistake, those boys and gals' are there as hostages.

If the DPRK decides to launch an attack, under pretty much any scenario those troops will be engaged in battle within 24h and I doubt that the US public would be okay with leaving them there to fend for themselves.

Money is just an unit of account, and in this context rather uninteresting. I could give you a billion Reichsmark, and you would be no better off than you would have been if I gave you a roll of toilet paper.

Corporations and individuals create wealth, which benefits us all.

> Having children might reduce the number of people you spend time with.

That is something that they bring up in the actual paper.

http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royopensci/3/...

Here's his stance on the issue.

> there is no need to reject hardware with nonfree designs on principle.

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/need-free-digital-hardware-desi...

Almost 12% of internet users are accessing Google over IPv6, and that figure is growing exponentially[0]. The users are already there, and our apps need to start using IPv6 more.

[0] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html