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What's wrong with it is that it's really really easy to make a mistake and introduce a subtle bug that will be hard to spot. Especially now since languages like python have been developed that have made people used to indentation-defined code.

It's the style in K&R? Ok, so the literal inventor of the language was certain he wouldn't make this kind of mistake, that still doesn't mean I trust myself not to.

They were great for me until we had a kid. Now it's unusable because they will mix 'real' music with annoying kid stuff all over the place.

I think it's because politics aren't supposed to be discussed here and Brexit is such a radioactive topic like Trump that any mention of it will make everyone uneasy.

A company can go under in two seconds with all the assets gone and the lenders will have to suck it up. An individual has to struggle with bankruptcy laws for a decade or more to get rid of the debt.

So if I've got 10k to loan, I'd rather loan it to some poor sucker that I then own, rather than to a business that might disappear tomorrow.

There is a difference if it is the sole/main owner of the company that also owns the real estate holding company, or if it is the CEO who's doing it to funnel some cash to himself.

I think the legit thing to do would be to have three companies. SuperCo Holdings, SuperCo RealEstate and SuperCo Operations. SuperCo Holdings owns both the others 100% and investors buy the Holdings company.

Would you like to clarify:

Which part of Europe are you talking about?

What constitutes actual work?

How are they suppressed and exploited?

Snap's glasses were a fundamentally useless product. Augmented reality glasses could be quite useful.

I will establish a new small company, focused on innovating hygienic facilities for starships. I will call it Startubs.

I support free speech but I also don't want flat-earther or nazi-supporting opinion columns in my newspapers/websites. Or at least not more than one a week or so. I don't want to spend my time consuming rubbish, or having a lot of conversations why those columns are rubbish.

The columns can be published sure, but in some fringe publications that I don't have to know about.

I also don't like the idea that all people with rubbish ideas should be able to demand distribution via any popular network/publication/institution. However when someone with rubbish ideas is already known, refusing debates or stuff like that is just silly.

Also it's good to remember that free speech means you shouldn't be persecuted for your words. Not that you can't be disliked or made fun of.

I second those both and would like to add Anathem by Neal Stephenson as well.

To be fair it does take much more than $20 worth of effort to migrate all your stuff from gmail. How much more I don't know since I've yet to do it, even though I've been paying for another email service for more than a year.

>never learning from bad experience that you simply can't get rich quick if you aren't already rich.

or a scammer

While I agree that he should definitely delete his Twitter account, I believe the hate predates all stuff that by a lot.

Torpedoing peace talks in order to win an election. Such a despicable act, I don't know any words fitting for it. I know it was not the first or last time in history this has been done, but since this instance can be proven I would suggest that some choice sites such as Nixon's birthplace should be torn down, the ground burned and it left permanently in ashes as a reminder.

Who knows what it could lead to. But no I'm not implying that there is any great danger from this project, but I'm objecting to the idea that one party gaining exclusive information somehow leaves the other parties in an unchanged situation.

When the world went from no country having nuclear weapons to one country having nuclear weapons, was the rest of the world not worse off than before?

If that's the case then it seems an easy solution (if the parties involved are interested in a solution) is to not let any reference point be so brief, but instead an average over a whole day or even two days.

I think the misconception is on your side here. For the longest time, conservatives said that climate change was a hoax, then that it might be happening but it's no big deal, then now it seems the position is that it may be a big deal but it's a natural process and humans shouldn't try to solve it.

None of those were as deeply involved in criminal activity and none of them had Robert Mueller on their tail.

The idea is you help anyone that needs your expertise, and in return you can chat with anyone that can answer your questions. They will probably not be the same people.

So you don't need to tell them what you want in return, but at some point they would need to list all experts they have on file so you can ask to chat with one.

In my experience, for anything technical (code problems, datasheets, component info or news) Google gets me the info I want much faster than DDG. I still have DDG as my default, but very often search again by Google.

Well, I can't see you but I would wager Paul Allen made the world a better place than you do.

The real leeches are the ones you don't condemn because you've never heard of them. They amass their wealth and live lavish lifestyles in private, never doing anything worthwhile that would bring attention.

Someone with real wealth tries to use it to make some positive impact on the world - Oh look, he has so much money! Kill the leech!

At least 100 boys in the US are killed every year by circumcision

Same here. I found that they are called Makhonjwa Mountains.

Some pictures can be found here: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1575/gallery/

And a very short wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhonjwa_Mountains

>No, we willingly and voluntarily gave our personal information away to companies in exchange for their services.

There is something to be said about informed consent, deceptive behaviour and the like here. But I don't have time for that. I wanted to touch on

>People just don't want to manage their own data, as shown by the mass transition of data into "the cloud" and the abandonment of "ownership" of data for a streaming rental model

I suspect people actually do want to retain control and ownership of their data. But it is getting increasingly complicated in ways it wasn't when everything was physical. Perhaps the choice to transition into the cloud and streaming services is less of a choice by consumers and more of a choice by the companies what products they want to offer.

I don't know how he squares that view with his support for Trump

What makes being a Navy SEAL cool is:

1) that they endured the training, unimaginably impressive

2) special forces military, always cool

The only special thing about a Google engineer is that they get paid well and have a probably nice work environment. Which actually is nothing special.

Most people would admire a Navy SEAL, be glad that they do their job but never ever want to be one, except for 5 minutes in their imagination. Almost no-one admires a Google engineer but most people would probably want to be one or at least have their working compensation/environment.

You continually receive signals at point A, send them to point B and transmit them there at higher power.

I'm not entirely sure but I always get redirected to https://twitter.com/i/flow/consent_violation_flow

I assumed it was something to do with GDPR, but curiously I'm not prompted for anything, just instant redirect to this page.

I just treat it as another happy instance of GDPR productivity boosting so I'm not motivated to figure out how to fix it.

What does it say? I haven't been able to access twitter since GDPR.