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There's a slight difference between being "not perfect" and having a torture camp and a president who says the US doesn't torture enough people (!).

When the US preaches about human rights it devalues the concept. That makes it harder to hold countries like China to account.

Congratulations! You exemplify the term "pathological customer"!

IDEs are very very easy to parallelise, since most of the hard work is done in background tasks, which can run simultaneously. Compilation also parallelises very nicely.

Java has problems on OS X and Linux. It is not truly cross-platform like Electron is.

The two are not mutually exclusive. If the marketplace is competitive, then ISPs are incentivised to both offer freebies and to make their services affordable.

The problems with the United States are the large area to cover, combined with a relatively uncompetitive market, and the predominance of post-paid contracts. But you can't generalise this to the rest of the world.

Assuming a bitrate of 10Mbps and a solid 7 hours of sleep per night, you'd have to spend 43% of your waking hours watching TV to hit the cap.

Is 'diversity' selfish? Perhaps women/teenage girls aren't interested in becoming programmers, because they don't find it to be an interesting or fulfilling career.

Think you have that the wrong way around! Taking on more passengers than there are seats is not safe. If it's an isolated incident, then that's 3/10. If it's an actual policy of the airline then holy shit! 11/10

> You can obviously re-write a Python 2 program to be a Python 3 program, so both of those languages are Turing complete.

This is true, but the converse isn't true. e.g. Python and brainfuck are both turing complete, but Python has interfaces around a hell of a lot more syscalls than Brainfuck which only has operations for reading and writing from stdio. You can't write a Python implementation in brainfuck, it is impossible.

Not entirely. For text fields and buttons, clicking them will usually work even if their window is in the background. But clicking them will also focus the background window.

If you don't want to focus the background window -- or you want to use an element that can't be used if the window is backgrounded -- then holding 'cmd' will pass the click through.

And if nobody else does? Pay their whole salary? Even AutoCAD isn't that expensive.

Ambitious in this context seems to mean materialistic.

I think the point they were trying to make is that all JS is almost always used with a run loop.

Whereas Ruby and Python are often used without a run loop.

A particular convention has been adopted by nearly all distros, the Python project and the Python community. That convention is better than Arch's, because it is backwards-compatible with the large body of Python 2 code that exists.

Arch's change angered many in the Python community, and broke a lot of code. That Arch refuse to adopt the established convention, because it would involve admitting a mistake, shows a distinct lack of professionalism.

Presumably bitcoin mining is generally done in places that have hydro-powered electricity (cheaper)?

There's a good reason to change back. There is now convention in place, and Arch's approach is obsolete.

You can't just redefine a word that a person has already defined (albeit implicitly), in order to make them wrong. That's not how being right on the internet works. If you want to be right on the internet, you have to define the word before they do.

I'm sorry that you are being downvoted, it seems nobody on HN has any reading comprehension.

That definition is circular. Of course research-level mathematics is done in academia, but there is a much larger field of applied mathematics that is done in industry.

But none of the packages they use will be up-to-date. e.g. Django dropped support for 2.6 years ago and will drop support for 2.7 soon.

And people pay money for that?

It meant something when Apple's Pro laptops had SD card readers.

Unless you are using Arch, the packages in the system package manager are often several months old. This is somewhat of a regression to anyone used to homebrew where packages are updated promptly.

The Linux 'solution' to this problem is to compile from sources. linuxbrew is a way of automating that, if you will.

The Amish though, they should definitely be sent back to Germany where they belong.

Theresa May wants to close the UK off to foreigners. It's just her, but as a popular PM she has a lot of domestic power -- more than Trump. She can make laws.

You're right that the old power structures are still intact and if they decide to assert themselves over the Conservative party then Theresa May could be removed (it's not like she was elected into the position to start with).

Before Rust it was Haskell, before Haskell it was Erlang, and before Erlang it was Lisp.

Everybody understands that UBI is a solution to meeting "basic" needs, the contentious part is the "universal".

I don't need basic income. If I received free money that I don't need, I might decide to double my cheese consumption. If many people like me do this, then the price of cheese will go up, hurting poor people.

I don't agree with the premise. It's hospital-acquired pneumonia that is the greatest concern and the biggest incubator for resistance. There's really no need for GPs to withhold antibiotics from at-risk groups to take at home.

Sorry, but the economy exists to get returns on capital. Employment is a happy side-effect.

If, in the far future, there are greater returns from employing robots than humans, then those humans who need to work will starve.