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It interrupts, yes, but you’re not in a position to judge what is in every individual’s best interest.

Interestingly, in the US, slavery is explicitly permitted by the Constitution as a punishment for crimes. (Though whether prison labor should count as "slavery" or as a different form of "involuntary servitude" is an interesting semantic question.)

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Subtitle. Subtext is the meaning implied but not stated by a given text. :)

Game rules are generally not copyrightable. The particular written expression of game rules may be, though. So it becomes a question of how much it took from the game books and whether it presented them verbatim or in a new way.

Asimov got there first. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Statue_for_Father

That’s true about most important questions. But you’re factually wrong about the implications of most religions.

Many (most?) major religions teach that we are not the only intelligent life in the universe. The Abrahamic faiths teach the existence of angels, for example.

And even if we restrict it to intelligent biological life, most religions don’t really say anything about that at all.

“Nobody would say "It is sad that you need that glas of Prosecco to celebrate New Year's with your friends."”

There are actually quite a large number of people who would say exactly that. It’s a minority position, but there are still quite a few people in the US who are opposed to alcohol consumption and have exactly the same concerns about it as other drugs. (Often, but not always, based in religious convictions.)

It’s interesting to note that this decision did not come down along typical ideological lines either. The majority was three conservatives and two liberals, while the minority was two conservatives and two liberals.

Which case are you referring to? I haven’t heard anything about it.

It's entirely possible for both things to be true at the same time. Tons of developers prematurely optimizing things that don't matter because they make assumptions about performance. Those assumptions can also mean an epidemic of not optimizing things that *do matter*.

Isn’t that essentially semantic versioning plus version ranges ala npm?

Most of my career has been working at places using scrum/kanban. And the vast majority of those projects delivered valuable software to customers at the estimated pace.

The ones that didn’t were easily attributable to outside factors or specific problems like an exceptionally bad PM.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to say, but that’s not true at all. There are other metrics for code complexity, including fairly simple but useful ones like number of logical branches.

This depends on exactly which executive functions are impaired, which are not always the same even for those with an ADHD diagnosis.

It goes both directions. Without the printing press, the rise of mass religious movements prioritizing literacy would not have been possible. But once the printing press was there, the religious movements pushed literacy forward faster than it would have gone without them.

Sounds like very poorly taught phonics. Well-taught phonics covers all the variations of sounds that letters make alone and in combination.

Many cultures and religions would say that the hermit did, or at least might have. :)

Having worked at both a mid-size EdTech company and now in a smallish part of Microsoft, every codebase for public-facing software that I've seen would take at least 1 year to achieve actual expertise in (while guided by an expert!) and would probably take much longer.

I’m not sure why. “Venting” doesn’t seem to have much overlap with CBT other than words being involved.

Why do you think that drilling is one dimensional? Drilling at an angle, and even at gradually changing angles is common.

In English, the term murder usually means something closer to "the intentional unjustified killing of a sapient* being."

If it's not intentional, it's not murder, it's an accident. If it is justified, then it isn't murder, it's e.g., self-defense. If the creature killed isn't sapient, then it isn't murder, but it might be animal cruelty.

Note that in order for it to be intentional, the killer must also meet some criteria for sapience, but that's not necessarily the same as being human. For example, in English translations of the Bible, Jesus refers to Satan as "a murderer from the beginning." (John 8:44)

What else? This is the only one that I am aware of.

The word norm can mean either “prevalent” or “the desired state of things.” So I’m assuming the previous comment was engaging in a bit of wordplay.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/norm

1. It’s much faster. 2. It won’t catch type errors.

Regarding #2, I assume that things are set up so that type errors are caught in some other way, such as in CI or in a precommit hook.

“Mental energy” is a pretty common phrase, and it refers to the ability to start and sustain work on tasks which require mental effort. Eating a candy bar can provide a temporary boost to mental energy, but it’s not an effective everyday approach.

There are many physical and psychological issues which diminish people’s mental energy. ADHD and depression being the most obvious.

Fortunately for many of those conditions there are also ways to increase the amount of mental energy you have available.

And when someone is in love we say they "walk on clouds." That doesn't mean we're literally ascribing the power of levitation to them.

> some bearded dude sitting on a cloud

You do realize that this idea is explicitly condemned by Christianity, Judaism, and Islam?

> Their parents can't afford a laptop?

Yes! There are millions of kids in the US whose parents can't afford a cheap $300 laptop. The federal government pays for school lunches because there are so many kids who otherwise wouldn't even be getting decent food otherwise.

> They can't afford an Internet connection?

See above. Also, there are many places in the US where getting broadband service is very difficult. Including places just an hour outside of Washington, DC. My parents were only able to get conventional broadband service a few years ago. Prior to that they paid exorbitant fees for satellite internet service with a 500mb per month cap.

> The kids don't have a good place to learn in their house?

Imagine being a kid with 3 siblings and your parent(s) living in a studio apartment. Or a kid that doesn't have a stable "home" at all.

> They don't have time?

That can be an issue too, depending on age. A teenager may be working outside of school hours to help take care of the family's financial needs.

Yes, absolutely. Every company that I've ever worked at had a list of officially supported browsers that included Chrome, FireFox, Safari and Edge/IE. QA engineers would make sure to rotate through various browsers while testing, and for crucial features would run through every scenario in every supported browser's oldest and newest supported versions.

I have occasionally observed anti-Polish racism in the US. Perpetrated by generically “white” Americans against anyone with a Polish last name or Polish accent.