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Not all desk jobs, well certainly not all jobs where you are always sitting down, cause the same long-term strain on the eyes, however. A bus driver is at least focusing on the dis…

Amen. Modern software development is frankly kinda sucky. The old days pre-2000 were arguably a lot more enjoyable. Today it's just digital plumbing and dealing with all sorts of i…

I sure hope so; the demise of Facebook (and any related business present or future) would be a positive effect on society in so many ways.

It’s not a point of information, though. It is one man’s claim from a very biased site on this topic. That’s why you are getting downvoted.

Ironically I can't even tell who you think the bully here is. It sure seems to me that Epic was the bully in this situation.

> They could allow Epic to give the option to buy through apple or buy for cheaper skipping apple. How do you propose that Apple could give this option to Epic? If they allowed Epi…

Setting up the B.V. might not cost that much but keeping it compliant with the reporting requirements every year is very expensive in Holland.

> I guess they want to pick a fight Are you referring to Apple or Epic? It seems that Epic are the ones who wanted to pick a fight, for better or worse. edit: it is amusing to see …

Are you talking about a B.V.?

> If you spent $1,000 on servers and your website made $10,000, then you’ll only pay taxes on the $9,000 in profit. I wonder if this is correct. Many places require you to deprecat…

Looks like the Pro is still 8-cores vs this new Air's 6-cores, so that is not a trivial difference, even if the cores are a little slower.

I'm curious about the new iPad Air they announced, with an A14. This thing is more powerful than the iPad Pro 11-inch now, priced a little lower. I wonder what the advantage is of …

The main issue with techniques such as this, which are certainly easy to do, is that if it’s not in the type system and therefore not checked at compile time, you pay a run time co…

You can't predict the future of any country of course, but you can certainly use its past to inform such a distinction. The moves by China and Russia, for example, to lengthen the …

All of the work on compile time programming in the last few versions is definitely for performance-oriented domains (certainly others may choose to take advantage of it as well). I…

> it's a complex language very few people fully comprehend these days Well I see your point, the reality is that this statement is also true of rust itself!

> it has become obvious that learning and using all of C++ is beyond impractical. Doesn’t really make sense why you’d want to anyway. Why would you want to use all of any language?…

> With sufficiently bad choices in a democracy it ceases to be a democracy before the error is corrected. I’d like to see a real world example of what you mean. Because while lots …

Of course you could also just write assembly if you wanted the exact most optimized machine code. It’s also hard to generalize these things in the form of those kinds of macros. Wh…

One thing about a democracy, if poor choices are made and poor leaders are selected, it’s only temporary until the next wave of elections. But in a dictatorship, or even something …

This is somewhat of a naive view -- the risks of any kind of dictatorship far outweigh any slight chance of good.

Yes, even to the degree that its leaders have become quite wealthy through the infrastructure of the government.

> Singapore is clever enough to keep the democratic process Mainly it appears to be a democracy. Speak to any of the cab drivers there who feel somewhat liberated to talk safely wi…

My one disappointment with Singapore is the lack of genuine free speech, and the lack of freedom of the press. This simple void causes many things that are invisible to the eye, an…