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>Clearly the disabled citizens should just crap at home

Disabled citizens are clearly better served by waiting for the oversized "Super Commission of Wheelchair Access" that takes three months to put a stamp on a project that has wheelchair access. You clearly didn't even understand the argument.

>And sustainability? Who needs that?!

Buzzword, three months, stamp.

>Frankly, ReasonTV seems like a left-wing caricature of the libertarians. There's very likely a good case to be made of wastefulness, but that video didn't have it.

I'm not at all surprised you think that.

merdreubuon Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faults

Nah, I didn't call you __ALL__ communists because I was replying to a single douche who translated "I wager" to "I proved" while claiming I "carefully selected" a youtube video. In fact, I didn't ever call him a communist because it's not just the communists who call each other comrade, it's a leftist thing in general or least it used to be until the number of comrade run failed states became unbearable. I'm glad you like and trust the politicians so much, I'm sure they appreciate it.

> 1000s of projects that are on budget and on time

Ha, ha, ha, ha... Oh, you're serious :(

> A private company is a black box

That's why it's called a PRIVATE company. Is not your money, it's theirs, if they fuck up, they pay the consequences, it's simple.

merdreubuon Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faults

>Which you "proved" by carefully selecting a single anecdote?

I CAREFULLY SELECTED a single anecdote... did you miss the part where is detailed why toilets (as in more than one) and other government projects cost so much ant take such a long time to complete? What can I say, keep believing, comrade.

merdreubuon Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faults

>There's a lot of public infrastructure around. The vast majority of it was commissioned by politicians. The vast majority of it is just there, mentioned a few times in the local rag before commission and upon opening and that's it.

Of course, because the most of the press doesn't do it's job. Here is a more banal example about public bathrooms in New York: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfAE5emMCs8

>Berlin Brandenburg is an exceptional case

No, I wager is the rule.

merdreubuon New discovery throws light on mystery of pyramids' construction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o

Persistence hunt in the Kalahari.

merdreubuon Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun (1943)

>If Sweden can evolve from an impoverished hellhole to being the epitome of modern civilization in a century, why can't the same thing happen to Syria? Or Sudan? Or Myanmar? I think it can, and it will.

Except Sweden one hundred years ago was not an impoverished hellhole. In fact, it was one of the richest (maybe the richest) countries on earth, smack in the middle of the most developed, richest and urbanized part of Europe (the Baltic region) already enjoying a booming economy and 100 years of peace.

merdreubuon Sudden Neolithic population drop was the result of brutal warfare: study

Maydanets, 4000 BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni%E2%80%93Trypillia_cul...

Talianki, 4000 BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni%E2%80%93Trypillia_cul...

merdreubuon It's Time for the 99% to Give Back to the 1%

The state may be gone, but the Somali Islamic and clan structures of governance remained in place, and they are deeply tyrannical and anti-freedom to the core.

merdreubuon Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps

>to keep Dart's makers employed

I find it hard to believe that the people who built Strongtalk, Java's HotSpot, Chrome's V8 and (lastly) Dart, would have trouble finding employment.

merdreubuon The Death of Flash and Rewriting 1.4M Lines of Code

It was Macromedia that made Flash, not Adobe. Adobe just ignored it and is now killing it.

Edit: Adobe also killed 2 other brilliant Macromedia products, right after acquisition, Fireworks and Freehand.

merdreubuon Stack Overflow lays off 20% of staff

> As a person living in a former communist country I find it quite amusing that after the communism was replaced by capitalism population increase went from a steady increase to steady decrease.

I live in a former communist country too, one that suffered under a North Korean inspired regime in the last decades before communism collapsed in a bloody revolution. And population was increasing at the fastest rate in Europe at the time, despite the miserable living conditions only because abortion and contraception were forbidden because the communist leadership wanted to increase the number of state slaves as fast as possible. Hundreds of thousands of children were abandoned by parents unable to care for them due to lack of food, lack of money and lack of space in the cramped apartment blocks. Countless children ended up in secretive state run orphanages that looked more like concentration camps. Here's a clip of one of those happy places

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOS3jBy3bl4

Anyway, yay population increase!

> But you know while we talk about how many people has communism killed, we never talk how much child labour and slavery has capitalism produced.. Anyway you get the point.

How did capitalism produce child labor and slavery? You must be pretty historically illiterate to not know that it was capitalism that made child and slave labor obsolete through technology advancements and automation. The very concept of childhood as we understand it today is the product of capitalist societies during the industrial revolution. And it was the capitalist societies that birthed the abolitionist movement and also exported it all over the world through various means more or less peaceful. Blaming capitalism for those things is like blaming the cure for the illness it removes.

> And by the way it's not that I care about communism. I don't. Never liked it although during these years I was a kid so I didn't have adult Experience. But I don't like capitalism any better.

Of course you don't like "capitalism", who the hell would like "capitalism" if it would mean what you think it means (that whole slavery and child labor bullshit).

merdreubuon Stack Overflow lays off 20% of staff

>I don't see how you'd equate communism and nazism.

They are both abject totalitarian ideologies that produced obscene levels of human suffering.

>how did you come with 100 million deaths for which the communism is responsible

Just add the deaths caused by communist policies (mass-executions, purges, labor camps, collectivization, famine etc).

merdreubuon OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships

Except Dota is not balanced so that heroes have the same win rate (LOL does that and it's a boring uneventful game for large stretches of time). Dota is balanced also taking into account the map, hero synergies, item builds, match progression etc, and it takes a genius like Icefrog to make everything fun and interesting at the same time.

merdreubuon On managing outrage in Silicon Valley

There's also a fair amount of Jonathan Haidt influence.

merdreubuon Without Flash the current web tech stack might look different

At the same time it's not hard to imagine how much better the world would be today if Macromedia was not sold to Adobe, and Adobe was not scared into abandoning Flash by the concerted efforts of Apple, Microsoft and the web standards zealots.

merdreubuon D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC

https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html

merdreubuon The Slovak Radio Building

>does not strike me as being especially Soviet

Czechoslovakia was not part of the Soviet Union.

merdreubuon Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

I think the development of VS Code was kind of an accident. They built Monaco (the editor component) for Visual Studio Online, then made it a standalone text editor as a side project and it ended taking off big time.

merdreubuon After a century failing to crack an ancient script, linguists turn to machines

>Witzel comes across as a deeply racist person. I am told that he told an Indian person that "Hindus cant get a chair professorship to study Indology because they will be biased!".

That's not racism.

merdreubuon Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.

Yep, shutting down speech because of "security concerns" is not banning, like what happened to many conservative speakers (Ben Shapiro at DePaul for example).

merdreubuon Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.

>Do you have examples of the left in the US banning free speech for those that think differently from them?

https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/783426266380668928

merdreubuon Ask HN: What's the most suitable language for robotics?

You get a lot from Erlang VM. Among other things: by far the best VM instrumentation out there, rock solid stability, fault tolerance and hot code loading, exemplified in this little video of a drone in-flight flying control system upgrade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96UzSHyp0F8

On the Elixir side of things, there's something like the Rails of embedded development in the making, a project called Nerves. This is a recent presentation on the project:

Justin Schneck - Enhanced Embedded Systems with Nerves (ElixirConfEU 2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=118-g0ODfgg

merdreubuon Node OS

http://nerves-project.org/

merdreubuon Making 1M requests with Python-aiohttp

Because you can get 540 req/s on Raspberry Pi 2 with Elixir/Phoenix.

http://blog.onfido.com/using-cpus-elixir-on-raspberry-pi2/

merdreubuon Political Correctness Devours yet Another College, Fighting Over Mini-Sombreros

I'm not surprised at all. In my book, the leftists and the nazis are basically the same considering what they actually stand for, their historical record and differ only by their stance on nationalism. I also have the "privilege" of being born when my country was ruled by a communist dictatorship, growing up experiencing the results of leftist policies, listening to countless accounts from my family members of the days when the left came to power post WWII. For me all this is deja vu: a new form of wooden language [1] rising up (microaggresions, triggers, intersectionality etc), discrimination based on circumstances of birth, policing of the language, behavior and beliefs of people, including trying to police how people behave and speak in private - any former communist secret police would be proud, people's tribunals like witch hunts etc. You hear about history repeating itself, but to actually experience it is kind of sad. But what do I know, I'm a brainless pessimistic libertarian kook...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_language

merdreubuon Elixir obsoletes Ruby, Erlang and Clojure in one go

I know about Bleacher Report[1],the second biggest sport site in the world after ESPN, and Pinterest[2].

[1]https://vimeo.com/128349620

[2]https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/introducing-new-open-...

merdreubuon Future of Programming Languages

Basically, the language of the future will be 90% Julia.

merdreubuon New Samsung Security Flaw - Disable Lockscreen, Total Control

from r/apple on reddit

http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/19/apple_relea...

"Apple has released the latest update for iOS, version 6.1.3, which fixes a bug that allowed for bypassing of the phone's lockscreen security feature"

"The update fixes an exploit activated by making and then immediately canceling an emergency call on a passcode-locked device. A malicious user with access to the device could use the exploit, plug the device into a computer via USB, and potentially access the data stored on the handset. "

I think it's funny.

merdreubuon It's Official: XNA is dead

>So building products and applications on the flash player these days is quite the gamble.

It's not that much of a gamble as long as W3C and HTML/JS are still around.