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Thank you for addressing my concerns. I hope that you don't end up having to ban all political discussion permanently.

I get what you are doing - HN has been in eternal September mode for a while now. I'm not sure it will work but I hope it does I don't want to have to find a new message board.

My question is what counts as political? HN has been an important place for me to get news about censorship, surveillance and copyright issues that are just not covered by my country's press (UK). I would be sad to lose this news source.

Do different Unis in the US use different numbering schemes?

OTH I find the concept of religion to be very political...

The boundaries of political discourse are like art or porn. You know it when you see it but one person's+ definition is different to another.

+ NB I used the word "person" in this sentence rather than "man" - some would therefore say that my comment has a political slant because it is attempting to use gender neutral words - I would say it isn't because I always try to use gender neutral words...

Does the "1" in "109" imply that this is a intro course?

Free speech means that you can say whatever you want without government persecution. You do not however have the right to dictate what individual people think or how they respond to what you say. So if the people doing the monitoring are government employees who's job is to monitor then yes this is censorship. If they are private citizens then it is in no way censorship <edit>unless they are being compelled to do so by government</edit>.

Search online for "xelatex". It's latex for the 21st century.

I wish I could upvote this more than once. Anyway who is writing non-trivial documents in LaTeX will benefit from this.

Publishing the source like this is risk management for a company. By doing this they don't risk having to receive, vet and process 100's of requests for source at a random time - which could use up their legal department's resources at the wrong moment.

Just click on the post you want to reply to's time next time...

To clarify I'm familiar with how Fortran handles generic programming and my frustration with it extends well beyond having to write interface blocks (although these are annoying too). I regard having several versions of functions handling e.g. different length floats as pretty tedious repetition - that in my experience can quickly turn into a maintenance nightmare. Maybe this is outside the scope of what an IDE could help with though. Could some kind of function templating be possible in future versions of Fortran?

Looking at this makes me wonder if there is IDE support for handling the way that Fortran does generic functions? So much boilerplate and repetition required...

> I realize that Fortran compilers have focused on optimizing traditional explicit loops and other imperative programming constructs. Nonetheless, I'd want to see benchmarks before concluding this is a lost cause.

Fortran since f90 has had syntax for and encouraged array level operations rather than looping over arrays. Surely there has been work on improving the performance of vectorised operations?

Personal attacks have no place here. Please do this elsewhere.

How is it easier to go in this direction?

It's UK English too. But not as common as cash machine/cash point/hole in the wall.

So would you suggest we should have a safe space where people have to listen to each other?

I will defend people's right to say things I don't like hearing. However I will also defend other people's right to not listen (as long as they don't try to prevent the speech from happening) - that is also a freedom.

To modify a quote: Your liberty to speak ends where I am forced to listen to what you are saying, my freedom to not listen ends where I prevent you from speaking.

Downvoting does not prevent the speech from happening. It merely says I don't like this. Flagging does...

Tizen gives Samsung options and means that they are not beholden to Google.

Sending unwanted emails - this is a great way to get added to spam filters... Do it to too many gmail users and no one will receive any of your emails.

OK cool. But by downvoting they are exercising free speech.

(As an aside I tend to read downvoted comments first because I want to see why they were downvoted. It's more of a highlight than a downvote for me.)

You right to free speech does not include the right for others to disagree with you, for them to not listen to you, or even for them to not like you because of what you say - they are also exercising their own freedom of speech by doing so.

Furthermore traditionally we have drawn line beyond which speech is not free (for example shouting fire in a crowded theatre is traditionally not allowed).

But: 1. in most wars the soldiers are actually fighting a very small proportion of the time. They are eating, drinking and creating waste every day. 2. Those dehydrated rations will need to be rehydrated. So you need to supply in the region of 3 litres of clean (soldiers are not as effective if they are sick) water each day (more in hot climates).

Optimal for what?

But a policy of squashing prevents two people from working on the same feature (you shouldn't squash what you've already pushed as this changes history).

Python2 is stable. This is actually a major advantage in some applications.

In the UK the key is to make sure that the tenant is Assured Shorthold rather than Assured. Assured tenants can't be evicted (unless they don't pay rent or other similar reasons) and their rent can't be put up unless they agree to the increase. Assured shorthold puts the balance of power in favour of the landlord+. The default (since the late 1990's) is Assured Shorthold tenancy - but if someone tried to play silly legal games as joked about by the GP their tenant might accidentally become Assured.

I am not a solicitor. I am not your solicitor. If you need legal advice on any of these issues stop reading and find a solicitor.

+ (not as much as most people assume because most tenants don't know or enforce their rights - wrongly thinking that it would be difficult when in reality the landlord will usually fold after a couple of letters long before things go to court.)

Letting someone have possession of property (yes tenants have possession) like this can be a dangerous thing to do in some jurisdictions - they can quickly gain rights to live there and you lose the rights to evict (or increase the rent - which could be a problem if they are charging you to live there!). Far more likely is that people start renting the empty property out+ - which will increase the supply in the rental market and help the housing costs... I.e. the intended effect.

EDITED + (with proper tenancy agreements which usually provide some balance of power between owner and tenant)

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EDIT I am interested are you downvoting because you (1) think I am wrong, or (2) don't like that it contains adverts, or (3) don't mind it containing adverts and think that this is irrelevant?

> why I am opposed to ANY govt funding of science. Its not a proper function of govt.

So who should fund science? Industry? They won't fund any science. They will fund research into engineering and technology. But they won't fund basic science. Furthermore expecting industry funded research to be unbiased is like expecting turkeys to vote for a second Christmas.

This is an interesting perspective that I had not considered.