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Hah, no. They get rich, because the more wealth you have, the easier it is to increase it. Why? Because this is how the rich and powerful have set up the rules of the game. Persona…

The opportunity cost of learning a language at school is very small.

I've been using Wayland daily for over a year now, and have noticed none of these problems.

Quantum trajectories more or less have the usual Copenhagen interpretation built in, so they don't really solve the old interpretation problems any more than decoherence does. Alth…

> - This may or may not mean that major distributions binary packages will simply stop being verifiable - it depends on who uses what key server in what chain of trust. We probably…

Wrong: Debian installations come with preinstalled keyring with the archive signing keys. Upgrades to that keyring are provided via packages, which are signed with the previous arc…

Right, gfortran does not special-case length-1 strings. The actual problem however is that it still works in simple cases --- when the Fortran code doesn't access the string length…

The existence of the camps is independent of whether you have evidence of them or not.

Historically, unions are a tried and true way for improving working conditions and average compensation. Of course, that's also the reason why they are so vehemently opposed...

That's not so clear. The LCD subpixels and CMYK dots may well be below the optical/retina resolution of the eye, in which case it's not really an illusion at all as it's already in…

This is a common practice in Europe as I understand, not just Germany. The thinking as I understand it goes along these lines: there are requirements to get a degree (thesis, pass …