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Afaik the idea behind elected prosecutors and judges is to make sure that the law represents what the people want, since a prosecutor or judge that fails to convict when the people…

Except in brain surgery the surgeon generally still gets paid.

To be fair, money laundering is associated with cash in countries where people mostly pay with plastic. Admittedly, the reverse association is fairly weak, as I doubt that bringing…

I'm not convinced they hired any in the first place, based on what their branding and internal processes.

Actually, that's an interesting question: How much more efficient transportation-wise is ending prices in .95 and transporting nickels?

I actually almost never use the OOP parts of D because metaprogramming generally offers a more elegant solution to the problem than polymorphism. That doesn't mean there's no downs…

By default, D has no safeguards to prevent you from doing memory-unsafe things, and afaik no compile-time checks short of marking your main method as @safe. However, because the la…

Which leads us to the current situation of the only people who stuck to exercise long term are those for whom "exercise for the sake of exercise" is play.

The compiler already depends on the state of the file system though, notably because it depends on the source code. In the above case, the xml is essentially just another source fi…

A huge number of games used torrents for patching since around that time, notably in the MMO scene. WoW and every Nexon game come to mind. AFAIK the Battle.net launcher still downl…

I prefer to call it mental acrobatics.

I think that the author is on the right track, but stops just short of an (possibly the) important conclusion. While it is true that the text of the Bible is relatively faithfully …