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I agree with your reasoning. Also, particularly > software freedom, which in turn is a tool to protect user freedom is AFAIK an assumption, or has this ever been proven? I mean, is…

Well, I care, to some extent. Like many other things, it can be used as a filter. At the least, lacking other demonstrable evidence (such as open source or industry experience whic…

The thing you're missing is that in order to achieve scaling, Lightning Network sacrifices one of Bitcoin's main advantages, decentralization: https://medium.com/@jonaldfyookball/m…

The big difference is that jpeg creation with default parameters works fine for probably > 99.9% of use cases. A jpeg encoding the picture of a car will be just as fine as that of …

Incidentally, I also installed Opera Mini on my iPhone, living in Nairobi. However not because of data concerns, but because it allows me to access Facebook private messages withou…

> Patterns do fit stereotypes perfectly. No they don't. "Stereotype" is a psychological concept, and therefore by definition incorporates human subjectivity. There are various conf…

> accents and other similar markings changes the pronunciation and meaning of words Yes. In some languages those are actually not "markings" but denote proper letters, like in Germ…

This reasoning is probably behind some the OP's cases...

> One is with macros, which you can change the definition of when necessary. I concur on this. In my phd thesis, I defined macros for all frequently used mathematical terms and exp…

I don't agree with the view that a component doesn't need a prop "itself" if it "only" passes it on to a child component. That child component is a part of the parent. If one decid…

Thank you for giving your perspective on this, I for one appreciate it. I also don't see how you've violated the guidelines (which btw. are called "guidelines" and not "rules", but…

> instead of returning something semantically like a function, std::bind returns something that might be better described as a partial syntax tree that happens to be something you …

> Well, let’s look at that. People who work in schools, higher ed, public institutions of education — they are government employees.” And they represent almost half of the 24 milli…

Problem with the skeumorphic design is that it's only approachable by people who are already familiar with the hardware, as dperfect already said. I share their frustration with su…

> Unfortunately, Sun decided that almost all Java errors must be recoverable, which results in lazy error handling like the above. Not quite: Java insists that all (checked) Except…

>The set of all possible assembly instructions is bigger than the set of all possible assembly instructions that haskell can compile to. No it's not. The Haskell compiler is free t…

I would go further: is "Axioms exist" true? You don't find them lying around in nature. They exist only in people's minds. I would argue that this is an inherent metaphysical quest…

I guess "not applicable" because the op's list is clearly referring to the US only. You'd need a whole new list for those licenses as applicable in the EU or other places.