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Living in the area at the height of the protests, so I can fill in. Some of the reasons: many people (including experts) argued that the project could have been done for half the p…

And that, comrades, is yet another way to realize our economy's incentive system is misaligned with people's material needs.

> It is the most successful social welfare system ever implemented, saving billions and billions of dollars for everyday Americans without costing taxpayers a dime. It is a testame…

What's up with that weird tangent about feminism? It's not like no feminist ever noticed the bottled-up toxic masculinity in some gaming communities and started analysing that. Do …

Who said a hobby had to be useful? This self-improvement cult is really annoying...

exactly, and that's a good thing. scaling means basically exploiting of other people's labour.

You'd have a hard time arguing that breaking GDPR is the only way to stay in business. There are enough compliant news websites to undermine that argument.

Nix contributor here. You are completely right, that is missing. Unfortunately the documentation is somewhat fragmented and its structure makes it quite hard to find relevant infor…

You can get pretty far with a statically typed, purely functional language. For example, Elm's package manager enforces semantic versioning: https://elm-lang.org/ I don't think you…

Yes, cyclists should not run red lights. But we need to improve cycling infrastructure a lot. Right now there is a lot of incentive to break the rules in small ways here and there,…

Electricity is not everything. Heating and transport eat up much more fossil fuel. That can be replaced by, uh… nuclear-powered electricity and synthetic fuels, I guess? However yo…

Trains and isolation are great. But gas still produces net carbon emissions. So if you adopt it, you have to move away from it very soon anyway. Seems like wasted effort from my po…

My first thought to this: can the turbines be made from wood instead? Searching for it, I found this: https://newatlas.com/timbertower-wooden-wind-turbine/25007/ Making things out …

Paying for traffic to be prioritized is the exact opposite of net neutrality. No need to pay lip service to the idea then. The obvious danger here is that small indie studios may n…

This website consumes about half my CPU. But for what?

Don't know about the material science behind it. But from a purely physical point of view, the problem there is that void (= vacuum) does not have any pressure. So the frame would …

Interesting… most of the motivation to use new tech is that it enables me to solve problems more efficiently. When you use older, but more established technology, its limitations s…

What you allude to there is pretty bad TDD. It was never intended as a replacement for good design, rather as an aid to be clear about design and requirements without writing tons …

If you look at more recently developed GUI architectures there is this heavy influence from functional reactive programming. The UIs are modelling as reductions over event streams …

I find it quite fortunate, that they don't use it automatically. Introducing a 1e-3 relative error is quite a deal breaker for some. Not for games sure, but for science that is mos…

The "right-wing" categorization is probably not that helpful, I agree. If I understand you correctly, by turning the argument around (against LGBT, atheist, liberal, etc. people) y…

For the record, I am not alleging this in particular. For all I know, it might be true. Although given Breitbart's history reading anything on that site does not hold much value. A…

Admittedly I have not fact-checked a statistically significant sample of their articles. But their Wikipedia article for instance tells a tale of published falsehoods, conspiracy t…

This sounds like that weird right-wing notion of "censorship", that has become popular recently. Let me elaborate a little… When I hear "censorship" I am thinking of government age…

That is barely credible given the source is Breitbart.