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I think such actions are done for the purpose of quelling terrorism. I think whether or not those actions will succeed is highly highly questionable. I also agree with you that rad…

> Moreover you are trying to justify the suffering of people by using some hypothetical scenario that hasn’t occurred. I don't think he's justifying anything. He's questioning the …

These were very very rare. The US would justify sending a cruise missile into the middle east to kill one target that MAY accidentally harm bystanders but they would never conduct …

Is Chinas' reaction also not a response to terrorism? Also by war he likely doesn't mean "official" declaration of war by the vocal cords of the US president. He likely means a mor…

>Wow, the balls on that question. >And please tell me your imagined design to "quell all terrorism" uses a blockchain. If so, do tell-- really, no detail is too small. You got big …

I don't know about uncle bob. But certainly what he said is untrue. Programming doesn't even have "while loops" as a primitive. From that wrong statement I assume uncle bob doesn't…

No you're very wrong. >No, one kind of technical debt arises that way. Not the only kind. There's another kind that arises when everything is in such small pieces that nobody can t…

He's not talking about machine level code. He's talking about while loops in regular programming. I don't think the person was aware that there are paradigms that avoid looping. To…

Because you cannot predict the future of your program. Coupled logic that seems correct now may need to be uncoupled in the future. By having every sector of logic be ungrouped it …

Scientists can't prove anything. They can only make statistical correlations and establish causation to a degree. What this means is that whenever you use the word "prove" with "sc…

Ah I know. I figured there would be a big roll out of a huge feature someday though.

I would explain the content to them. Explain all the different sides and my personal views on it as well as direct him to content with opposing views. Then I would let him form his…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24790837

>You've never understood why parents protect children from things that they will eventually be exposed to as adults? If your goal is to give your children unfiltered access to "rea…