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The war of drugs has been done badly. Of course it's ridiculous that people's homes get raided because they have some pot. That doesn't mean legislation needs to jump to the other …

Legalization may provide a net health benefit for Mexican gang members. Whether legalization will provide a net health benefit for American citizens is still a point of contention.…

Generally there is not much happiness in software development. More often than not the job is little more than prostituting your brain for some cause that you don't really care abo…

It's a junkheap of human banality -- deleted my account many moons ago.

You still need an algorithm to decide when it's time to handle control to a remote driver. Who's going to handle the edge cases of that algorithm?

At some point you got to wonder whether the practice of programming itself can make people unhappy. Maybe it's just not natural to put your mind into that straightjacket of formal …

Yes, but the number which indexes the position in PI where your book starts will probably be longer than the book itself.

> Likewise, if someone fails to use intoxicants or other recreational drugs responsibly and develops a debilitating habit, it makes more sense to do as we do for people who want to…

I'm not sure history can be repeated so easily. Back in the eighties you were impressed when a program managed to change the screen from blue to green. With today's kids playing Co…

It's funny how many people recommend exercise or meditation as if this is going to make you forget that you hate your job. If anything, meditation is only going to make this more c…

The problem is that when you hire the services of a prostitute, you will probably have no idea about the situation of that person. Maybe this person is in charge of his/her life an…

> Couldn't agree more. Evolution as a process has no regard for simplicity or elegance. The solutions that Natural Selection "comes" up with are random. I guess you could say that …

> is this really more profitable than actually making good games? I know I'm going to sound like a terrible elitist snob, but the target audience for today's mainstream video games…

My guess, and of course this can be no more than a guess, is that you are depressed because of loneliness.

Attitudes towards women in Tech would be a little more relaxed if a fair number of developers would have the courage to face the truth and come out of their closets.

> a job market that doesn't need cashiers, janitors, gardeners, cooks, taxi drivers, car washers, many farmers, or most menial labor? The job that I consider most threatened by adv…

int get_number(char buffer[]) { long int i = 0; char *p; if(fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), stdin) != NULL) { sizeof(buffer) will always be 4 (or 8 if you compile 64 bit) because siz…

Attitudes towards women in IT environments would become a little more relaxed if a fair number of programmers would have the courage to stop denying and come out of the closet. The…

My main gripe with Windows at the moment is the amount of time I'm staring at Windows updates. It gets ridiculous at times.

I have been visited by deceased relatives a few times in my dreams and for me these experiences were convincing enough to serve as evidence that death is not the end of things. Of …

If you want to try this, don't wait too long. Being an electrician is a though job physically. If you're past 35 and you're used to sitting in front of a screen for a living, your …

You ignore the fact that the radioactive potassium will be distributed more or less evenly over your body. Secondly, and more importantly, you bring up this number of 4900 decays p…

Aside from waste storage there's also the cost of dismantling old reactors. The Wikipedia article on nuclear decommissioning makes for some depressing reading: http://en.wikipedia.…

The statement that nowadays reactor engines can be designed that are "far safer" always riles me up a little bit because, of course, a few decades ago the OLD designs were already …