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> I think in general adults should be able to make up their minds about ingesting chemicals that might hurt them. However, it makes sense to make an exception -- if the chemical ha…

> So are you saying countries should retreat from Syria and let things fall where they may, or are you saying we should get more involved? I'm saying that our current involvement i…

> It's debatable. Do you stand aside and look the other way and say, that's their lot in the world, or do you do something. > It's not an was call. If you do nothing people die. If…

> However, by far the most infuriating (and one I run into frequently in my line of work, hence the anger) is when you are trying to get the language running on a platform for whic…

I'm fine with cracking down on ISIS propaganda as long as we also crack down on the propaganda of hawks in the West. ISIS is bad, no question there. But the US invasion of Iraq has…

I dunno, but I've read some of the books from this year's list and I liked them. Especially Mindset: The New Psychology of Success , although I think it was a bit longer than it ne…

Yes. :)

Graph databases are exciting, but I'm far more interested in the potential of append-only stores. Rather than recording data at all, you store events (item added, item deleted, etc…

> I play video games, and I can't imagine what the latency would be like over a mesh network. 1. Neither can anyone, because we don't have examples of large-scale usage of mesh net…

> Not being able to find private space in your multi-million dollar open floor plan modern home is one of those good kind of problems to have. If you want to live in a home with pr…

> As far as I can tell, this prevents countries from demanding source code to a closed source product as a condition for selling into a country. Seams reasonable? How could this po…

The bill of rights is a set of meta-laws and as such is separated from the problems that laws solve by a level of indirection, and as such they have to be more abstract and general…

I realize you're joking, but in the context of this discussion, this shouldn't be mistaken for a valid point. We're talking about how to structure a society, and I think it makes s…

Is it really? If we can provide a mesh network that is as effective as older topologies but cheaper, the problem is solved, period. If we break up ISPs into smaller ISPs, then we h…

Bob Black's essay, The Abolition of Work gives an alternative dichotomy to the "work versus idleness" dichotomy: work versus play. You can be paid for playing if your play produces…

> Today's youth think the suburbs was about race now? It was about a lot of people don't actually like living in a concrete jungle, that was what it was about. Ugh. You realize tha…

> But then, I think all the major telcos are scum. The solution is decentralization through mesh networks.

> yeah, very self consistent, pretend you care about the GPL, then decide it is the vendor you really care about. No, I'd be saying that about any other vendor who released code un…

If typing is the bottleneck in your development you're not solving difficult problems and could probably make more money solving difficult problems at a different job.

Goethe and Twain are dead. Murakami is still alive.

There's room for plenty of things that I don't care about. I don't care about open source software that is still controlled by Apple.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

Because when 100 people in front of you do it for 1% of the experience, it's 100% of your experience.

I think the problem here is that nested comprehensions and filter comprehensions are almost always too complex. If you are doing something that requires that, you should break it u…