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Well given that this party is funded by taxpayers, for the purported benefit of said taxpayers and their society; I do think its problematic that said party would hold such a view.…

> That database must be a wet dream for law enforcement. Because obviously people buying a few pills of ecstasy or a tab of LSD are a serious danger to society and should be taken …

> For the latter, you are declaring your opinion as fact. Every language allows redundancy and variation of expression; if it truly provided no benefit, why have we not seen a popu…

Curiously I find myself disagreeing quite a bit with Larry. > If a language is designed so that you can "learn as you go", then the expectation is that everyone is learning, and th…

>However, any possible password with a standard printable ASCII character set will typically be found in Rainbow tables up to 10 characters long making expensive cracking unnecessa…

Interesting comment by Gorhill from the above discussion: >> I thought web extensions couldn't block that content. > I just ran a couple of tests, and I believe you are correct. > …

Website administrators: Please do not disable everything except google bot in your robots.txt [0][1] - this is a terrible practice making our internet worse. [0] https://web.archiv…

> I think AMP pages are 10x better than the ad-filled, slow as molasses, jump-around-as-JavaSript-loads, Firefox on mobile supports extensions, so you can use UBlock Origin / UMatr…

Hmm, I find the auto-associativity to be a bit weird for example: ≫ 1/12 c 1 / (12 × c) = 2.7797e-10 s/m

I remember last time I looked at their projects page it was very underwhelming. Doesn't seem like that has changed.

> citation? http://www.businessinsider.com/pisa-worldwide-ranking-of-mat... > I didn't define useful either: > but if you can understand written instructions it doesn't matter what…

As you say, they definitely aren't uncorrelated dimensions - otherwise we would have seen ~50 pilots within one stdev for all 10 dimensions. So this simplified metaphor really isn'…

> It tends to be a negative correlation. This definitely needs a citation. It might not have significant correlation either way, but I cannot find a reference for the former (some …

Somehow despite all the conversations around education in the US the education system still sucks. I went to one of the highest funded (amount spent per child) public schools in my…

> A qualified peer review would (hopefully :) have caught this and other latent issues if an HN commenter did. Would the qualified peer-review necessarily be reading the NodeJS cod…

The entire concept of suicide being illegal is appalling to begin with. No one ever asks a human being whether they want to live life, and for any entity to presume jurisdiction ov…

At $9 per pound of tomatoes? I think the claim that it can, and do so affordably needs a reference to somewhere it actually does.

One of my primary uses for Skype has been phone-calls to family (international landlines) and it has at least been reliable in that regard. Most recently Hangouts no longer works o…

I've been using Skype since 2007 or so. While I haven't found a more convenient alternative, the application quality has always been extremely low. This includes failing to sync no…

Because you can't feed NY or SF with 'hippy-feel-good-low-tech'.

This is the kind of attitude that leads to low quality, scrappy code, akin to copy and pasting Stackoverflow; I don't believe that a developer should need a great memory but they s…