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I would agree, but there are still some interactions that require doing the same thing repeatedly in order to make progress (eating rice balls, eavesdropping).

This is some drawback. "I have access to the same bad alternatives as everyone else."

I wonder if that was ever popular, considering the deoptimization effects of try/catch, and given that block scope can also be managed by renaming variables.

Social media has already homogenized our thoughts so much. So many facts and perspectives are presented that it's impossible to construct our own opinions on it all without taking …

In music, a refrain is a passage that we return to rather than continuing to progress the song. When we hear refrain as a verb, the metaphor tends to focus on the "abstaining from …

There are at least two reasonable readings of "anger is eliminated", with one being true if anger is reduced at all, and both being true if anger is reduced to zero.

I think mainstream views would deserve attention if they're directly answering these criticisms. If such point by point responses exist, and if they're compelling, then that's what…

Without getting into what it means to "trust" Woit or anyone else, whether we're talking about specialists or domain outsiders like myself: if experts disagree, it's up to them to …

I could point out several that are doing that very thing right now.

He's shown us his character as a leader so many times at this point. When he called Vern Unsworth "pedo guy", I didn't know how to square it with my image of him, so I mostly forgo…

It's true, the article doesn't make that claim. We think of primes as being mysterious and out of reach, and we're conditioned to think "mathematical / computational breakthrough" …

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A refinement would be that the company should focus on acquiring the developers who will provide the most marginal benefit. For an organization that values diversity but that curre…

I could breed a human baby for meat, and it, too, would exist to fulfill its purpose by dying. There are two major differences: 1) You probably place value on the baby's life and i…

That's fair, but on the other hand, none of those other waves of automation have empowered machines to do knowledge work, the last refuge of human productivity. That's the barrel o…

And waste their youth in prison.

If we assume that governments and businesses start giving a shit then many forms of magic are possible.

As an implementation detail that's true out of necessity, but the simple English explanation of the mechanic would be "they are rewarding you for having an amiibo", not for having …

Whatever economic system may be in place, it will be possible to profit by making better decisions in that context, but that doesn't prove the superiority of that system, and it do…

Nobody is rebuilding anything on this planet, not considering how deep we need to drill/mine at this point to get anything good, and the example will not be useful to anyone who ar…

Many services have this issue, that perfection is the minimum requirement. I don't understand why, given this, we don't just go to a thumbs up / thumbs down rating system. We have …

> Isn't it already in the browser's cache in that state anyway? Like disk cache as in Cache-Control? In most cases you wouldn't cache the HTML itself, but in cases where you do the…

Possibly because they won't be doing it, or at least not going so far as to unconstitutionally refuse to hold hearings on Supreme Court replacements.

Bart becomes chief justice of the Supreme Court in the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie".

The advantage OP was referring to was that you could force a type warning at all, as opposed to PHP, JS etc where typed arrays don't exist (notwithstanding Uint32Array and such).