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No snark, but if you sincerely believe that, then there can't be a Libertarian Utopia because the libertarians are outnumbered by scoundrels 1mil to 3. Why would you take a path de…

Clicked the link cursing out JetBrains, closed the link cursing out Google.

? Iraq and Afghanistan seem pretty criticized to me.

They didn't know they were, but I think soldiers were in the room, so similar idea.

This is so dangerous. Society's bigotry is going to flood that bad boy so quick you might as well name it Gobbels. I love ML. I want children to be safe. This is not the place for …

I'm not sure that's an issue by itself. If the prompt is broad enough, a minimum length can be reasonable for essays. It certainly could be a problem if the prompt was too narrow, …

On one hand, I agree with you. I remember having to argue whether I showed my work or not by using imaginary numbers instead of standard formulas in high school physics. But even w…

Things like this story, Word's auto-grader, and Grammerly's style preferences are all surreal to me. We are asking a computer to validate prose meant for human consumption. Not a r…

I'd argue that the expectation of perpetual population growth is one of the big problems (the unsustainability of social security bottlenecking at the baby boomers being an obvious…

Not without change, but I'd argue further change is certain, and likely to be of large magnitude. I do not know if it will be sustainable, but I doubt it will be static.

I'll second this downvoted opinion. The mismatch between economic good created by and economic incentive to create OSS is just tragic from a hard numbers perspective. How do you fi…

I agree, somehow we're not all writing everything in Rust yet. Maybe it's coming, but I doubt it.

(W)e (E)njoy (T)yping.

How does that relate? Grass is often green. So are leaves.

Reminds me of http://pk.org/rutgers/notes/pikestyle.html > "There is a famously bad comment style: ... Don't laugh now, wait until you see it in real life."

How does the nuclear waste being dangerous for between 200 and 15.7 million years[1] factor into the ROI? Not snark, I just can't fathom how to reliably keep something sealed for 1…

You are 100% right. I made a rubric for my company's sales department to grade third party APIs against. Documentation, tutorial, working example on github, and sdk in were all wor…

Let's say I fully agree with you, now what? Ban K-Nearest-Neighbor?

I see what you're saying about placement in time of curriculum. You're right, and I came into HTDP and SICP after knowing 3-4 programming languages well enough to release productio…

I keep hearing about this, where is something I can read / listen to about the announcement?

I too am curious about the author's opinions of SICP. As a self taught developer, SICP and HTDP gave me the classic "My-Eyes-Are-Open-And-Now-Can-See" experience. I didn't feel lik…

If 1898 Democracy is functioning Democracy to you, we're taking past each other.

> Democracy has been broken since the rise of technology and mass media. I'm sorry, when was everyone equally franchised? Between Jim Crow, Women's Sufferage, and Civil Rights you'…

How do you weigh something like the burka? On one hand to reject it, you would be intolerant of hundreds of years of tradition. On the other hand, to permit it is to accept the ide…