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People don't "deserve" things. They earn them. Go pile-drive that idea through your thick skull. (Doing so, just might fix whatever major malfunction you are so clearly suffering.)…

> Is everyone just supposed to be as smart as us programmers? No. Luckily programming isn't the only task in the world that needs doing, and we have a lovely thing called "comparat…

The US college population is still big enough that that tiny fraction is still a lot of people; and almost certainly enough for a viable market niche. In that case I think they sho…

Apologies; I appear to have made my point in an overly indirect manner. Luckily your response here allows me to clarify myself concisely: Have you ever considered that that sort of…

tl;dw: the presence of air, solves the propellant-related issues (i.e. this is an electroaerodynamic drive, not a reaction-thruster), allowing this engine to provide, novelly, seve…

> nothing can matter beyond the spatial extent of your body Insofar as the spatial extent of a body is extended by its brain's perception and knowledge ... ... the quoted words for…

> only without fully-automated checking The fully-automated checking is precisely what allows one to write unmanaged code without tearing one's hair out.

Who are you to tell others whether they can reproduce? That's eugenics! EDIT: ... isn't it? And isn't eugenics bad?

Wow! A psychoactive substance that's actually helpful ! (Even though it's clearly not net -helpful due to the serious physiological side-effects.) That's amazing! ... why isn't the…

Spoiler alert: nothing can matter to you once you die. (And everyone dies.)

Actually, you've just outlined one of the good arguments against social contract theory.

Thank you for being one of the few sane people in this thread.

Because, for most of these problems ... from the point-of-view of anyone with enough resources to solve them, they are non-problems and/or not severe enough for the solution to be …

Compassion is overrated, at best.

IIRC, it is intended to replace both Android and Chrome OS. And as shown by the Android Open Source Project, they don't need to close-source it to engage in worrisome behavior.

> we don't do enough OS research like we used to. Don't worry; once they finish it in a few years, Google's new "Fuchsia" OS will let them take over the world (to an even greater e…

Well that is socialism. (As is our conflation of insurance and charity.) Being a form of price control, it also happens to not work very well. EDIT: and if anyone can explain why f…

Medical Records and Practice Management are often two separate pieces of software, with only the latter one dealing with billing and insurance.

Information-security can be oversimplified as one big "holy grail" problem unto itself - and when someone presents some software and proclaims it is "the" solution to that problem,…

Oh, I read that comment as sarcasm. Wishful thinking, I suppose.

Increment your count. I'd say more about it, but I don't think I can write any more eloquently and exhaustively than these folks: https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.ht…

> You think Russia or China would launch a ground invasion of a nuclear capable country in a different continent, for no other reason that it looked a bit weak? A nuclear arsenal i…