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You are presenting a false dichotomy. The choice is not between everyone having children and no one having children.

Stallman even addresses your objection in his post:

> I don't wish that nobody had any children; I don't want humanity to disappear.

You have to drive hours north to go skiing though and even then the hills are pretty tiny.

It's possible the coup was staged as an excuse to purge the opposition and seize more power.

Edit: changed "quite likely" to "possible" to address valid criticism.

> ... curious why solnik didn't mention Sequel ...

From the article:

> It would be unfair not to mention that Sequel showed up already around the same time and till this day it’s being used way less than ActiveRecord despite being a superior solution.

The force of gravity in low earth orbit is about 91.7% of the force at sea level.

Square Cash recently introduced the ability to send money w/ your credit card (before it was just debit). Square takes 3% of those transactions. Also, I think they charge 1.9% for non-personal use when sending money w/ a debit card.

> $200k in SV is comparable to $70k in most other cities.

What's the basis for that estimation? Given California's income tax and higher rent, I'd say that the difference in cost of living is $20-30k, not $130k.

I didn't realize until working at a larger company that lots of "news" articles about products are the result of a company's comms team reaching out directly to the authors of such articles and telling them what to write.

I wonder if you can improve your visualization ability.

I stopped reading novels for fun about 5-6 years ago but this past year I've started reading at least one book every couple of weeks, and I feel that my ability to visualize things has improved.

On a related note, I wonder how you could measure one's change in visualization ability, since it's so subjective. I had a very difficult time answering the questions in the article, since I had no frame of reference.

> ... decades of dealing with the public and the public servants have led to an accumulation of rules, regulations, practices and traditions clinging to everything like barnacles to a medieval man o’ war.

I strongly feel that "garbage collection" is grossly neglected in almost every organization and is part of the reason firms slow down as they grow older.

The article mentioned simplification of the Norwegian tax code. Are there governments with garbage collection and simplification of laws built into the legislative process?

What do you want to learn and why? I think you'll get better advice if you're more specific.

It could be that an internal service is returning an error, which the externally facing server is not handling properly.

Does the cell height change during this animation?

More maintainable and idiomatic code.

What kind of unsupported/false advice have you heard other doctors give patients?

In that case, users may notice a performance decrease in spreadsheets for images from certain websites.

I don't think this has any chance of competing with Steam. Though it may offer a more polished experience, it requires much more effort to use. Why would a gamer manually type in what they're playing when Steam automatically broadcasts that to their friends?

One obvious trick is that people could list items in poor condition to get the "fair condition" price from FOBO when it doesn't sell.

I think this could be a deathblow to Rap Genius.

I performed the following searches in an incognito tab and could not find rapgenius in the first two pages of results (I did not look beyond the first two pages):

"rap god eminem lyrics"

"machine gun funk rap lyrics"

"lose yourself eminem lyrics"

If all you want to do is execute your own js on a certain web page, you can just use greasemonkey or another userscript extension for your browser instead of writing a whole new extension each for each script.

Greasemonkey also appears to provide an interface for peristent local storage as well. [1]

[1] http://wiki.greasespot.net/GM_setValue

I actually really like the interface of pressing a number to instantly open a search result.

I think Google Search is quite relevant, because it aggregates information from all of these sources. You don't have to think about which site would give you the best search results for a given query; Google does that for you.

What does the Syrian government hope to gain from using chemical weapons? Is the edge that they gain from using chemical weapons worth the increased potential for military intervention by other countries?

I think this addiction can be fine as long as its not self destructive and not detrimental to your personal happiness.

I'm not sure what you were trying to accomplish, but you simply left me confused.

Part of the reason people want to work with the "coolest" technologies is that they want skills that will be relevant/desirable by a wide range of employers. If the skills they pick up working for you are not relevant in other areas, then they're basically wasting their time.

Yeah BFS/DFS are O(n) for graphs and trees.

Pics with the disco ball!

I think you and the author are saying the same thing. It's not that Bill Gates wasn't passionate about programming, it's just that he didn't spend 10,000 hours programming just to be rich and famous.

No, read the article. He died before the accusations.