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Why do you think, from your experience, it is not a systems programming language?

What is the reason then? (And what has led people to have that perception?)

You must realize that what you're saying is an argument for better targeted ads. If you don't, I don't know how to help you see it.

What a ridiculous argument. I didn't get that fellowship despite the ad, unlike your grandfather who reached an old age despite smoking. I got it thanks to the ad.

Hard to prove that I didn't read a document that is intentionally made publicly available.

One of the things that has had the most profound influence in my life was to apply for and get a fellowship that paid me graduate studies in the US. The only reason I learned of its existence was my mom seeing an ad of it on the newspaper.

How is vote by mail secured?

How do you verify the output has any relationship whatsoever to what voters input in it?

I think it made that final even more entertaining than it was already being.

I haven't claimed anything needing backing up with numbers, only pointed out which statistics are misleading. I'm afraid to read that article you linked in case it contradicts what you said though, so I'll pass.

Explosives are pretty useful for construction, though.

You can apply that argument to every single discovery, innovation, and development of humankind. Well, maybe not to the discovery of America, as it was sheer dumb luck. But in any case "someone else would have done it eventually" is an empty argument.

> that leaves the public with a skewed picture of the pros and cons,

Then the other side has to also fund public campaigns, instead of just lining the politician's pockets.

> it has the same indirect effect of pressuring the politicians to act in the company's interests.

Yeah but one thing is lobbying and a very different one is "I fund your campaign if you benefit me economically". That's a soft version of bribery. Can't put it in the same level as propaganda ads that change public opinion on a topic.

> if thier average selling price per phone is still only $235 [...]. Even they sell mostly low in phones.

Irrelevant for the exact same reasons as the other statistics above: selling more and more low-end phones decreases that average prize without decreasing the number of high-end customers.

> Epic didn’t even bother supporting but two Android devices at launch

You say this and link to an article that says it's some sort of exclusivity deal for the first 30 days, not actually lack of support for other devices.

Like, counting on the chance that people give credibility to a sourced comment without bothering to read the actual link? Or what was that about?

Are they actually allowed to do that, or is there a regulation preventing it?

Who cares how much money they spend on public ads? On the other hand, it's easy to understand why people care about how much money is donated to the campaigns of the politicians that will make these decisions.

Well that's part of it too. "A lower ratio of Android users are willing to pay than for iOS users" is a meaningless statistic for someone that wants to target people with high-end phones willing to pay. Because those ratios refer to the whole world. They do not mean "there are more iOS users willing to pay than Android users".

Accounting for installation numbers only, there are about 6 Android users for each iOS user in the world. So targeting API 25 (Nougat 7.1) already gives you access to a bigger number of users. Targeting earlier API versions only increases that number.

I was trying to ask the parent to expand on the many things he was claiming lol

Yeah, ugh. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Boston,+MA/Beijing,+China/@6...

Expand?

The jump between the 53th and 54th rips is very suspicious! Didn't you look more into it to try and explain it?

If you're in the US, I think you can still buy big packs at BestBuy.

That, and also needs beyond the initial creation: Adding new types of content, modifying things without having to start from scratch, being easy to diff for change reviews and for merge-conflict resolution, supporting search engine crawlers, deep links, permanent links, interacting well with the back button. And that's without getting into the cases in which you have content that updates in real time, user content, the need to support offline mode, or any of the things that blur the website / application line.

What are the other two?

They aren't answers to the question I asked. "Why wouldn't technological progress be a good thing?"

Thanks for the informative and clear explanation!

For gRPC we needed the code to work on all major OS's and had to support a number of different build systems. In no case were the capabilities of the target system manually specified, as that wouldn't have been sustainable. And specifying for each build system what files to include or not for each platform would have been onerous and hard to work with (as the person adding some platform-specific code probably isn't fluent in build systems for other platforms).

So the solution we adopted is a header file that detects the target platform capabilities. And each source file being either platform-agnostic, or specific to one platform. In the latter case, the whole file contents would be #ifdef'd out if compiling for a different platform.

That's kind of a poor reply. "Sometimes things have unintended consequences". And a link to a book that says that technology alone won't save the environment, more things will be needed.

Why wouldn't it be?