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The lower the standard of your team, the more you will appreciate idiomatic code. I don't work in SV, blue chips, or anywhere that could use Scala. A couple of us at my last place …

This doesn't have developer salaries, but might be of interest. Edit: Forgot the link: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

Can you explain that to this lot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebelli...

If you don't share your cookies, we will revolt and take your cookies, and everything else you have while we're at it.

"larger species likely took advantage of being able to move faster, burrow better in sediment, or eat larger prey" -- larger species burrow?

Is this sort of thing more tolerated in China where people are used to having explicit network interference, eg great firewall?

"..representations of abstract concepts, capacities for learning and reasoning... consciousness is some sort of sophisticated, elegant computation ..." -- But would it love?

In the UK it seems that politicians are guilty participants in the world of child pornography.

Yes, that London cost of living is way off.

I was thinking this comment sounds a bit alarmist and paranoid, and Alex Jones came to mind. Lo and behold, you mentioned von Mises. Racism and fascism are not equivalent to the ho…

Looking up "yaan" - Hindi for vehicle.

That presumably also explains why this post has rapidly vanished off the front page, unlike the cats in boxes story. I know, someone will tell me it's algorithmic. Indiscriminate d…

I meant what is the reason, but the comment history does have a lot of down votes. I'd search through them for a reason, but that could a while.

Agreed. "all the time" - is there a history behind that?

http://www.landvaluetax.org/what-is-lvt/

From the article: UK police watchdog: burglary and car crime "on verge of being decriminalised."

At what depth underground does the temperature become tolerable?

I was thinking something less obviously encrypted than a usb stick with a dialog box saying "Enter password" - how about steganography? "A password for my image?"

Would I be right in suggesting that it's not encrypted data unless someone can decrypt it to prove so? In other words, we're free to send garbled nonsense to each other.

I have no interest in ball games. I enjoy Formula 1, some MotoGp, and some some cycling. My interest in Formula 1 used to be primarily strategy, but not anymore and I'm not sure wh…

Is that the question to ask? Isn't the question to ask where is this headed, on a grander scale?

For every action, there is an equal an opposite reaction.

Bad meta. Sorry to lure you into it. I'll vote you back up.

Righteousness opportunism.

So why did flip get down voted, and not Jacques?