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It's slightly more complicated in practice. The US has this weird system where you can opt out of full union membership and become what's called an "objector". You opt out of union…

I appreciate the link, thank you.

Given the context of this thread (comparison of ruby and python), it should be noted that python also has this. You can decorate a method with `@property` and call the method witho…

> but I feel like it makes it very difficult to reason about performance This seems like a form of premature optimization. I mean, you're not wrong technically, but if you were exc…

They mention doing this a decade ago. They were probably using utilities to manage downloads from the ruby application archive (which would have still been around at the time) and …

> Sure the water in that creek might be falling hundreds of meters, or even kilometers, but without a dam the height differential at your generator is only going to he a few metres…

That really depends on what percentage of water's potential energy is expended in small creeks and the like vs big rivers. I actually have no idea how to estimate that. Anyone have…

Wait... so the US army did poorly against guerilla combatants half way across the world, and therefore another country that lost in Afghanastan and a country that hasn't successful…

> Yes, I mostly see people saying that laws don't matter because billionaires are beyond law at this point. Huh. Weird. Well, I don't see it brought up on HN all that often (once a…

> They plan to use the exact same code! Did they announce a change of plans? Their website just says that they have no plans for a borrow checker (i.e. it's not required to actuall…

Wait, is that what you always see as the argument against it? Whenever I've seen it brought up it's always that it would require a constitutional amendment (specifically in the US)…

> It completely failed and SUV consumption skyrocketed and people stopped buying minivans and station wagons. The government put fuel efficiency regulations on sedans in the 1970s.…

> When people air opinions they're unwilling to change That's the thing, there are a lot more positions these days that people seem to be unwilling to change.

If that were the case, you'd expect to see forking of 3rd party libraries rather than writing of new ones.

That may very well be. What's the windows support like/does it come with windows pre-installed? I may personally hate windows with a passion, but if we're talking about the layman'…

I think ARM would be allowed, but for a layman to consider it a PC, you probably do need the windows capabilities.

> That political party's actions are about weakening the federal government so as to make it easier for large corporations to behave abusively, not because of trust. Can you think …

> I don't think Americans and American companies understand how little trust rest of us have for the American government. Have you... have you seen our politics? What makes you thi…

> Water, air, chicken, dirt, star stuff. God, the Captain Planet re-boot got weird...

For this to work, you'd need most of the code to be written by people who are paid (i.e. professionals). In my experience somewhere between 50-80% of code at most places is stuff p…

> how is that not putting code in the driver's seat? Because humans enter into them. What you're describing is not a problem of the code making decisions for people, it's a problem…

It's considered to have ended (and possibly started reversing) in developed countries starting in the mid 1990s. Your link even covers it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effec…

> but that puts implacable emotionless code in the driving seat, and the article explains very eloquently why that's a bad thing. To re-iterate my previous point, putting code in t…

> A deeply and clearly thought out argument for why immutable blockchains and code as law are terrible ideas, yet the conclusion is that crypto-anarchist technologies are a net goo…

> Which is why punitive fines ought to scale with income and/or wealth That really seems like it depends on what the damage a particular action causes. Property destruction, for ex…