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I don't get what the author is trying to do here. I mean he complains that talking about the limit of a sequence is too asbstract and unfamiliar to most people so the explaination …

Have you met humans?

> Melenchon […] started as a Trostkist So did more than half of the socialist party elit (elephant du PS), even freaking Cambadelis, are you suggesting he’s far left to ? > against…

Elections are not, and should not, be the be-all end-all of a functionning democraty. Otherwise you just have an elective aristocracy. And to be clear, I'm not saying pure polling …

> You are attacking the wrong target. You are missing the big picture. This is rich comming from someone putting Melenchon, basically an old school socialist (in the werstern Europ…

I would ass a fourth reason: health is a very much a public (as in collective) issue, not a sum of individual medical problems. Something that is fundamentally at odds with the dom…

> So, he is an author that has a track record of understanding a thing or two about money. On the contrary, while he is indeed a good author and has written highly enjoyable fictio…

This can only be a patial explanation of the effect since it is known to occur even when the patient is informed that the substance is inactive. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pla…

> I’d much prefer the free market approach where there are multiple actors each making different bets on future demand than some overarching rule about how future demand should be …

To be fair, being considered a threat to national security and held as a pariah for having communist ideas is hardly a recent development in the US.

Not quite 2022, but yeah I was maintaining a token ring based network for some subway at my last gig in 2019. As far as I know, no work is done on it now but the subway-car using t…

> I couldn't shake the feeling that I was picking up the check for everybody else. I was paying very high taxes to essentially finance crazy government overreach, only to later los…

I have absolutly no inside knowledge but my guess is that the loop and the vehicules inside it are more akin to a mini railway network with weird trains than roads with cars. As su…

That's not ironic at all. There are less inequalities in Europe than Asia, at least in this century.

The more radical theory I've comme across is that Capitalism is always in crisis. It is not bad step or a shortcoming of some kind but rather a fundamental feature. Capitalism work…

Incredibly enough, this kind of phenomenon really is almost magically turning from "0" to "1" when a certain threshold is met. This goes by several names depending on the field but…

This idea can be traced even further back to Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle It's not that surprising to find it h…

Exactly, I feel the title should be more "Redefining what Google Maps® can be with new information". And as you noted, this app is not really a map. Regardless of the semantic shif…

> It has nothing to do with Americans vs Europeans. Plenty of Americans spent excessive time navel gazing on optimal TCP/IP replacements (tons of research on Internet protocols com…

Agree, the OSI model was what smart people who thought deeply about the issue decided we should do. Unfortunatly the timing was bad and the coherent model emerged just a bit to lat…

Nah, I'm not saying my employer's IT infra is rock solid but at the very least we have backups.

> (and have written much about it, e.g. https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity ) Wow, thanks for that link. I only made it through the first part for the moment bu…

I've seen you make that argument a few times on Zig related discutions but I'm not sure I buy it. It essentially boils down to: simpler language => easier to reason about and build…

> JetBrains went out of their way to make migrating to Kotlin as easy as possible: you can literally upgrade your Java project file by file. Yes, offering a good path to switching …

Not milliamps, milliamps-hour (mAh). It is the usual unit used in the context of battery capacity in the general public, nothing tricky here.