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This article can be summarized as "Oh no! The 'wrong sorts of people' are winning! Lets ditch popular elections."

A jury is a very restricted case. There is a supervising judge and two (or more) competing advocates. The process for choosing those advocates is very formalized (defendant selecti…

This might be the definition of "trying too hard". I loathe Trump, but does huffpo honestly think this article is convincing to anyone who isn't already drunk on their koolaid?

> For the basic core of a language, shortening names is good. You do have to admit the slight irony of the shortened string-handling function names in C, given this fact.

Sure, within the context of this generation of string-handling functions, the particular example of strpbrk makes sense. But there's a reason that this sort of name has been left b…

I don't think either of these are true, but now I understand where you're coming from.

The problem with these examples of verbose functions is not that they're verbose, it's either that they encompass too much functionality or poorly describe what they do.

Eh, seems fine, just seems odd to be forced to do that for a three-argument function.

Are we anti-OOP then? And no, I don't believe you. Making your variable names more descriptive does not make your code less readable. Even when it's not strictly necessary, it's no…

Including class variables? Their context is far larger than the immediate code you're looking at, longer/descriptive names seem basically required there, as they have essentially s…

All hail strpbrk()! Do you have any defense of that? I'd be interested to read it. I think every article on coding advice I've read for the last decade favors long and descriptive …

It effectively limits all functions that return a value to 2 parameters. I rarely go over that, but it would seem a bit arbitrary to bump into.

NHS and ACA really have absolutely nothing to do with each other. The NHS has serious problems related to accountability, the typical problem with huge multi-level government burea…

> Or when they oversimplify something you know a lot about. In fairness, I've literally never seen an accurate media report about one of the topics I know far more deeply than the …

80 is an _awful_ width for code in a programming paradigm encouraging long variable names. If you're comparing two values from class.accessor, you fly right past 80 characters if y…

> The difference between "social/political" and "economic" is superficial. If you're including all issues that have economic effects, perhaps I'd agree with you. But I'm talking ab…

> I'm discussing the narrative No, you're discussing your narrative... which doesn't have much to do with the post you replied to. Greenspan is rather heavily implicated as one cau…

This is rather silly. You've altered the definition of "free market" to the scope of things on the market, rather than the regulation of the market itself. Although some free marke…

Uhm... no. Him being from a wealthy family is not an example of hypocrisy. Nor is his family business being fed with government contracts. You've _badly_ misunderstood the issue if…

> You're blaming government regulations! That's absurd given many people at this point have said that 1) That's not actually what he said. He said that the regulatory apparatus is …

Lend to 3rd world plutocrats, then hold their countries responsible for the debt when they run off with the money.

The more severe problem is that there is a rather strong argument being made by the "Mises brand of neoliberal" that the primary cause of these problems is the lack of neoliberalis…

Is that _really_ the best examples he can come up with? Why not military support structures or privatized municipal services? I'm not sure two examples is sufficient to hold up his…

> Two British examples [of neoliberalism], suggests Will Davies – author of the Limits of Neoliberalism – would be the NHS and universities “where classrooms are being transformed …