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The South Korean government was a military dictatorship at the time. And the North was wealthier. Without the power of foresight, you couldn't justify the war as bringing democracy…

I didn't mean a literal tree that has leaves and bark. I meant the tree structure that you get when you trace the ancestry of all organisms. A tree coordinate system would assign a…

They spent a whole section glazing the Linnaeus system like it's a perfect thing, but as someone who has delved into taxonomy a lot (due to playing Metazooa and Metaflora), there a…

There are a lot more to Criminal Botany. There's the chaotic evil variety, like planting an invasive species, planting bamboo near your enemy's house, and sprinkling mint on someon…

This Schroedinger's Freedom is getting tired now. They happily label themself as free-market democratic liberal progressive when you're justifying bombing a poor third-world countr…

One thing I really don't like about this video, is that he was specifically describing the advantages of that specific van and drivetrain, that being Toyota Sienna, and he's not wr…

> By virtue of how hard it is to get any information on creatine What exactly is hard about that? You can get all sorts of information about creatine, it is one of the most studied…

> Creatine breaks when cooked Into what?

You mean like building an AI data center in the middle of a residential area, and fitting it with gas turbines that deafens the entire neighborhood?

These people are perfectly fine with depicting React developers as corporate zombies that can't think for themselves. Good faith is bidirectional.

What do you think of the medical doctor Dr Tai that "invented" calculus in 1994 and called it Tai's Model?

I can accept this for a hobby project language that unexpectedly blew up in popularity. Go is not that language. Zig's developer also had grandiose plans for his project language, …

Programming language development have been happening for 60 years. We have tonnes of prior art, we have a rich history of experimentations. If you're a language developer that does…

You don't think having a package management system in the compiler is weird?

Zig, Go, and Python developers do this thing, where they announce that "We have removed the radiator fluid from the fuel tank", and all their supporters cheer about how this is goo…

If the difference didn't matter, we wouldn't have so many different lisps. Obviously the difference mattered enough to the people that created Common Lisp when Scheme already exist…

The way to see if it's actually a fallacy, look for in-fighting between the two supposedly opposing camps of goombas. I've seen internet commenters say China is overstating its eco…

The point is that it's the job of the democratic legislature to codify what you just stated here into law, so that all money managers have to abide by this standard, not just those…

That sounds nice in theory, but real programs have multiple channels of IO going on: std IO, logging, network, database, file system. I follow discussions in Haskel groups sometime…

As the title indicate, this article is comparing construct-to-construct, not idiomatic code to idiomatic code. You probably won't use struct initialization in C++, yet the feature …

You might want to read that article carefully. It doesn't disprove what I said.

There is no legal definition of terrorist. As far as international law is concerned, those "terrorists" are civilians.

A quick google query says 15% of US households own a personal computer in 1989.

Would you say the same about a 40 year old suburban USA dad who is a Walmart store manager, who served in the US army for 8 years in his twenties? Is that a "valid military target"…