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What sort of C++ project requires general recursion to describe its build process? I could imagine a compile step not terminating - due to some crazy template meta-programming glit…

Funny I tried the same and it advised a using searing/smoking hot pan. Which is poor advice unless you enjoy the bitter acrid taste of burnt meat. The Maillard reaction doesn’t req…

Incompetence is one thing, but the aspect of the current leadership that I (as a non-American) find most shocking is the corruption. That is, the use of state power to enrich an in…

BBQ culture is different in different parts of the world - I experienced what you describe in Switzerland once (bring and grill your own food). Where I’m from, it’s bring your own …

> But of course, as I'm sure you recognize.. I do not. When you say, “what I mean is economic capacity is constrained by demand and raw materials” - that’s a significant deviation …

I’m not sure I understand? Financial services and insurance make up about 8% of US economy and 5% of that in Europe. I’ve seen no signs that these sectors or the economies they’re …

> economic capacity is effectively infinite at this point This is a bizarre claim? The total ability of an economy to produce goods and services is most certainly finite. For it to…

What economic "just so" stories have I presented? You accept that economic capacity is not infinite, right? Then you need to tell me from which sector would you reallocate workers …

Countries don’t have infinite supplies of labor and capital. The more of an economy dedicated to making cheap plastic toys or stitching tshirts, the less economic resources availab…

We have all the technological tools available to largely decarbonize energy. We don’t have to wait for, nor have the time, to wait around for a deus-ex-machina. Given the dominance…

Why? The vast majority of fossil fuel production globally is through state-owned companies.

By "through metadata", you mean with some external separate mechanism unrelated to the XML spec? That's exactly the flaw of what's supposed to be a universal and general document r…

I dislike it because it failed in such a fundamental way as a way to represent a document; you cannot, in general, reliably determine what characters the bytes in an XML file repre…

Yes. The power in wind is proportional to the cube of wind speed - which falls significantly as you get closer to the ground especially in a typical residential setting. Anything b…

I would have imagined that an influx of any type of money - not just foreign money - into a market with limited supply growth would push up prices. Probably I am getting overly sen…

> You are arguing that he came to the "wrong" conclusions without actually arguing against those conclusions I am not. Benn claims that the papers say one thing when in fact, if yo…

How? He carefully examines and actually reads all the papers referenced in the video and shows that they either don’t support Benn’s claims or completely contradict them? Drawing c…

I was a regular viewer of Benn Jordan until seeing one of his videos about how Apple sucked because the iPad was incompatible with so many MIDI and DAW controllers. He went through…

I don't see how you can make such a binary claim - UK vs "the rest of Europe". Your map shows 6 broad categories of legal systems in use across Europe. Even if you put the 5 non-co…

Have you a source? Using IMF data for GDP per capita PPP, the UK's growth has underperformed that of France, Spain and Italy over the last 10 years. In 2016 the UK's per-capita GDP…

But why is having a pair of separate independent operations, fork and exec, required to achieve this? A single fexec call could be implemented to work in the way you describe, no?

Even if only 30% of the population are citizens (like in Kuwait)?

Here's my small pushing back story. I was an independent contractor for a large bank. My contract kept getting rolled so I ended up there for a few years even if the original piece…

The only reason I learned to touch type was out of boredom and the fact that the only “game” for the TI99/4a system (it had an “extender” with floppy drive and ran some spreadsheet…

VAT is the simplest of all taxes for businesses to deal with. VAT taxes business profits in a simple and completely unavoidable way before companies have a chance to throw their be…