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I would urge you to do research to confirm your assertion here. What I described is not a fringe view, it's literally a summary of the Criticism section in the Wikipedia entry for …

Ah, but that's the issue. As currently constructed, the espionage act cannot be challenged in court. Assange would want to argue that he isn't a spy, but a whistleblower. The argum…

It's perfectly okay to use inequality as a personal motivator like you do, but it doesn't follow that inequality is a good thing. What you may find gives you drive might crush othe…

Would you still view inequality as efficiency if you were the one whose work is deemed less valuable? It's strikes me as a very easy statement to make when you can afford not to li…

I agree with you completely and I think this cannot be controversial. If we cannot agree that sort(my_list) is better than its inlined function, our profession truly is at square o…

This is a stimulating argument to think about. One possible counter-argument is that the resulting procedural code is more difficult to unit test. In the video Brian acknowledges t…

No, but in societies with more freedom like the US and the UK there generally tends to be more propaganda, because in those societies the government can't use force to coerce the p…

In general I think there is a case to be made for "slow" programming, but this article falls short for me. I happen to think that software development is a knowable discipline, tha…

I don't pretend to know the answer to this, but I can share when I've been tempted to do such things in Java. You know how fairly often when writing OO code you want to have an obj…

I think the OP saw a lack of nuance in the argument and explaining was speculating about where that comes from. I don't think anyone suggested that the European way is better. In f…

Why would comparing those two scores make any sense? The US has a good education system if you compare it to the world average. It's no surprise that people in that system would do…

> This is a double standard. To have its “great” hardware support, a given release of OS X has to support a few dozen hardware configurations. Agreed. Linux and Windows, as operati…

Everyone's natural tendency in situations such as this (ones where valid moral principles are in conflict) is to try to look for the easy solution. We want to determine who's right…

I'm not a person whose opinion on the subject matter should matter to anyone, so I'm not commenting because of a vested interest in this argument. I'm commenting because I think yo…

I agree the situations aren't identical, but what theory do you think best explains all the observations? Just to be clear, my answer is: Each country's problems are rooted in the …

I don't think I follow. Isn't the idea that you weigh the cost of doing so with the cost of a prolonged recession? I have a general ignorance of exactly what Keynesian economics ac…

That is part of it, but I think there's another piece to the puzzle. The private sector in general is in crisis because the banks won't lend. They won't do that because of the prob…

That's a hypothesis, but it seems unlikely since there are four other European economies facing identical problems - Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Ireland. Spain in particular was a …

Completely agree. If Paul Krugman isn't enough to sway people, Joseph Stiglitz, another Nobel laureate, has echoed his analysis. So has Dean Baker, who is the first economist to my…