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At a tangent to your (marvelous) response: > But what about domestic terrorism, or important exceptions? No problem! Get a warrant. I've heard about accounts of police investigatio…

The equal time doctrine was eliminated in 1987: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine >> The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission …

Each animal can be said to posses a survival strategy; ours resides not in talons, or rapid flight, or keen perception, or camouflage, but in cooperation. Even the hierarchical str…

> We just use the circumlocution. I think it is an ambiguous category. At least to native (American) English speakers and heathens like me. The only evidence I can offer of this is…

Interestingly, there is a lot of good advice on this in various writings on learning to read Latin fluently. Word order is very free due to the language's inflected nature, and of …

I don't think there's a chain of valid reasoning that can start with a few very exceptional people (that is to say these people are an exception, whether it be by talent, effort, o…

Given that the story said they rejected a deal in which the city would pay $462,123 plus interest for Comcast to come in, then I'd say the "common folk" would be paying for it in e…

For some reason I've found that vacpots are easier to clean up than a press-pot, but they really complement each other: some coffees go to the press-pot, some are better with the v…

> their wildly varying build/metabuild processes. Boost? I'm sure there's good reason for the -- sui generis -- build system. Always been too underwater to spend much time wonderin…

Or, new languages and language features just steal and adapt from Common Lisp (it's okay, that was just a joke, geeze). I never felt the availability of nearly any programming para…

> It's not something an uninformed person would reasonably expect Nor is it something an informed person should tolerate.

> I refuse to whiteboard Why is that? How you communicate is really very important. If the discussion warrants it, I offer the whiteboard to people if it helps them explain somethi…

> But you'd still expect features to be getting implemented at a higher rate Yes, I'm inclined to agree, but I actually haven't ever seen a study which compares the same project im…

And studies show that the number of lines of code a developer puts out in a day is basically constant across all languages. This is usually cited as an argument for more expressive…

I think this is a good question. My suspicion is that the policy resulted from legal, rather than market forces. If that's true, then the fact that we the readers, viewers, listene…

It is loadable via asdf. You can look at a very silly example here: https://github.com/grantham/clef-reading

Word. There's Real World Haskell by Don Stewart ( http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/index.html ), though the order of exposition is different and your mileage may vary with the…