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This is probably libel, and regardless it's character assassination that reflects more badly on management than it does on Rick.

Ok, so what changes would you make to my explanations?

> raising the price of goods by locking out foreign competition is regressive: the made-in-America premium hurts most when you have the least to spend you could always lower sales …

Learn them both at the same time. Pick two small projects. For project 1, implement it in Python, then implement it in C. For project 2, implement it in C, then re-implement it in …

In theory yes, if you have an impartial third-party monopoly, but in practice it's still might-makes-right, where might = money, lawyers, political connections, ethnicity, etc. It'…

Eh, I don't disagree, I was just trying to distinguish between property existing and objects existing. But maybe force defines existence all the way down.

And you won't get far with source modifications if you can't run the program.

This doesn't mean property exists in the same way that objects exist. A piece of property is just a protected object.

Well, maybe it's more accurate to say that it's impossible to consent because no consent is required to take someone's picture in public. People generally exercise control by choos…

I don't disagree with you, but human society exists because of our ability to control violence via intellectual rules.

It's valid if X is having your picture taken and Y is being in public.

Python has its share of cruft and idiosyncrasies. I find some of the syntax irritating, e.g. boolean logic, argument handling, hidden / private / magic symbols, and those pesky hal…

More or less, assuming you can predict it. But there's a penalty for misprediction. So it boils down to whether using % frequently (either as a native instruction or as a sequence …

Are your parents truly completely different people?

On their own, % and / are way slower than +, -, *, >. Cycle counts depend on your architecture, you can look them up. That mod is so slow and should be avoided is a kind of folklor…

It doesn't have to be intended. It's just that every time you write or speak you communicate group membership. For example, there are further implications about group membership wh…

Well, it's faster than %, but I bet it's premature.

The other primary purpose of language is communicating group membership. For example, it's reasonable to guess that you belong to the "uses version control" group by your use of th…

Go on then, enlighten us with the definition, and failing that, the most precise definition you can give.

In my experience the public face of Japanese society is very polite, but that's distinct from what can be said with the language, and what people say with the language in private f…

According to the suffering and environmental damage line of reasoning, the reason meat is strictly worse is because if you grew plants instead of animals you'd have 8x as many calo…

So we're labeling people as mentally ill with a view towards criticizing them and their opinions now?

Why bridge? Any good resources you recommend? How many hours per week do you think it takes? I was thinking about playing one of those play money games for a year or so.

> Mozilla is not a company Mozilla Corp. is taxable and had revenues of $329.5 million in 2014 per Wikipedia. Most of that money came from Google in exchange for making Google the …