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ok, the only sensible way to use the word "elegant" in a sentence describing something related to Perl is a negation, as in "non elegant".

Because it's ultimately a distrust of people. You do not trust people to realize that the candidate is old ? Where would you draw the line on limits? Age, IQ, gender, weight, heigh…

Here's famous story about bit-flip changing/affecting results of election in Belgium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Belgium

Haha, what did America become! Country built by pioneers venturing into unknown danger, the whole ethos of the country is "exploration and endeavor". Now, one would be questioned f…

What are those policies ?

All that still might be true, but there are a lot of instilled/inculcated principles or "rules of life" if you will. They might seem contradictory but those principles/rules fire u…

I am Russian living in the US, but what I can gather from conversations with my college acquaintances and family that is still living there - there's plenty of Russians who are app…

I don't think it's dying - it thrives in Global South (Africa, S. America) The biggest undoing for Roman church was to succumb to theological innovations. It started a while ago an…

If that was true, wouldn't other anti-helminitics show the same effect ?

Just because a drug could treat pulmonary hypertension, doesn't mean it could not be effective at treating erectile dysfunction.

I remember from my college days - one of the features was "fit on one floppy". Back then it was pretty cool, you wouldn't have to install anything and there was no booting from USB…

Overall, it's operational fragility. Back in 2017 or 2018 there was engine failure, that started inspection of all planes, that triggered massive flights cancellation, revenue drop…

It's spectacular to see LUV devolving from one of the best managed and employee oriented airline company to this. It's not an outstanding incident though, the company was on the do…

This case would probably lead to unintended consequences, s.a. not hiring persons of color because now, those employees can easily put company on a hook for millions, unintentional…

I can't believe that article "Equitable Research Requires Questioning the Status Quo" is not "trolling" attempt. This can't be written in a sincere and serious fashion.

One can look at it as what's the null hypothesis. Presumably it should be "masks DO NOT work". But for whatever reason, media, tech, politicians, doctors chose opposite as a null h…

what "scientific data" ?

To your point there's nothing developed on OSX (and specific to OSX) that runs "in the cloud". There is some niche Swift offering but they are niche.

I have used C++ in 2001 with ROOT and it was a long wait most of the time. Depending on your codebase and libraries involved making compiling and linking fast was an art form

I think under "administrative costs" they might have hidden consolidation of the providers market. Anecdote: I wen to podiatrist about 4 years ago and now. The same doctor the same…

Why Navy ? Does it have to be in the sea ? If on land then Westinghouse or Duke could build it just as well if not better.

Ha, I am surprised no one yet cried about "black hat" being bad hackers and "white hat" being noble ones. When is that change coming to DEF CON? Most surprising is how hypocritical…

In this case though he was prosecuted and convicted.

I have a strange feeling that, like with research papers in general, when it comes to COVID-19 there's an incentive present to find something. We would never see a headline "Lungs …

Mr. Pilate once asked "What is truth?". Even though there are various definitions and approaches, I credit Pierce and pragmatists with the best one - truth is what we know at the e…