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Go to Singapore.

Singapore is a really nice place to live.

War on Drugs works in Singapore where drug dealers get swift, harsh punishment.

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A system that lets minor inefficiencies endlessly accumulate, because the activation energy to address them is too high, is rotten. As for picking up hundred dollar bills, Congress…

Your perspective makes sense if you accept as good that massive political effort must be taken to do obviously good things against the wishes of special interest groups. But most p…

What an indictment of our system.

I’ve always been fond of the 50 cent piece too. It’s too bad that the ubiquity of the quarter makes it the only contender for a single-coin system.

I imagine it would cost less than all the money collectively spent on minting them and buying and maintaining machinery to handle them. Even better if they got rid of the quarter t…

What the US needs is to abolish all coins except the quarter. Due to inflation, a penny in 1913 is worth about 30 cents now. And somehow they made do with no smaller coins than the…

They would if they could. Spain is a weak little country that depends on the US for defense. The US is the most powerful country in history. There is no symmetry.

Wrong, allies spy on each other constantly.

No, we shouldn't. But anyone committing assaults on either side should be prosecuted. Much easier to do these days than back then.

This is false. Labor laws passed in the 1900s in most Western countries give you a right to strike without the risk of getting fired. It doesn't have to be bargained for. There's l…

I'm not saying you should have to fire them. But you should be able to.

Views on collective responsibility for riots have changed a lot. These days, it's only the individual rioters who commit specific crimes that are thought of as bearing responsibili…

He means cases where management is accused of violence against the strikers.

Violent strike breakers should go to jail too.

Violent strikers should go to jail.

Striking should be legal, but firing employees for striking should also be legal.

> This is like a C# dev trolling a C developer by say “first novice exercise”, HTML encode a UTF8 string. I mean, it is a single line of code in C# so how hard could it be in C? It…

You’re misreading the rule. Such titles are allowed. If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways T…

Ruby and C here.