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nondave

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    Comment #29629267

    Depends where in California and where in Western Europe

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    Comment #27903490

    I've had to do all of those things, and still agree that towns and cities being designed with cars as the default mode of transport is insane

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    Comment #27191647

    Counterexample: when I used to own a car in the UK, I would absolutely minimise fuel consumption due to cost.

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    Comment #26584484

    What does IC mean here?

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    Comment #25314684

    The post raises some good points, but I nonetheless think that C++ is a better language for having std::variant. It can result in some very clear, expressive code, despite the boil…

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    Comment #24471524

    Also clashes with this existing q: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from...

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    Comment #24035572

    I don't disagree that it's _been happening_, i.e. some of its effects have happened already and continue to do so, but I wouldn't want to say "done and dusted, economy's fine" unti…

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    Comment #24035492

    I'm not sure we can come to any real conclusions about the economic impacts of it until we get well into 2021, even if many businesses have been preparing for it.

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    Comment #24035374

    Strongly agree about the PocketBook website. It was so slow to load I assumed it was broken and left.

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    Comment #23917651

    There can be disadvantages for technically competent folks too. I'm really missing going over technical ideas on a whiteboard with colleagues.

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    Comment #23443005

    I think English could work here with terms like "sparse" vs "low in number".

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    Comment #23437572

    "Toolkit" seems like a bit of a stretch - as far as I can tell this is just a small example progam which uses HElib.