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> Oslo tried to ban cars, but there has been a huge backlash, without the right sort of support some of the most vulnerable (i.e. people with physical disabilities) just cannot liv…

Which means more wilderness & biodiversity, or more farmland, depending on the area. In Oslo you can ride the subway to the edge of the forest & hiking trails. Some people want to …

Packets can arrive out of order, yeah. TCP includes ordering information, so lost packets can be retransmitted and in the end everything'll be in proper order. As for UDP, I'd tell…

> Rust does not really have an RTS per se. libstd is just a standard library. And if you don't want to use the standard library, you just say #![no_std] https://doc.rust-lang.org/s…

The assembly / bandwidth / cpu / etc argument really shines for limited platforms. E.g. if you're on metered internet, loading ads costs you money. If you're on a small device, pla…

Linus is Finnish, not American. And I suspect he's aware of what it means, given the quote "I name all my projects after me: First Linux, now git."

Not since GHC 7.0: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.2/html/users_guide/code-...

If few dependencies are your thing, you could try rox? http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/ROX-Filer My package manager tells me it depends on sh, libsm and gtk2. That's not much.

> Maybe the people who could remember 7 items felt they worked hard so they deserved to be rewarded with a chocolate cake. That would be what depleted willpower feels like, assumin…

There are some people who just don't seem to enjoy food, and who go for repetitive and bland meals. It's sort of like people who don't enjoy music, or books, or films, or ... you g…

> In the future, you will be able to go online, fill out a questionnaire, and for a small monthly fee receive one of several pre-programmed diet and exercise programs, complete wit…

That was three years ago. Everybody knows that since then Firefox and IE has closed shop and that the only browsers on the market are Opera and something that runs in Emacs. Well, …

Dude. Buy a dell with ubuntu, or one of those wal-mart computers wit gOS. Or call up a computer dude to fix your computer for you. Or order correctly-burned ubuntu cds.

The Ego and its Own, by Max Stirner. The Open Society and its Enemies, by Karl Popper. The Illuminatus! trilogy. Robin Hobb books (with special mention of the farseer trilogy), Nea…