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The computing courses at my university use Haskell in the introductory programming course - apparently it works rather well as a vehicle for exploring algorithms and data structure…

This preference is based on the assumption that the extra information conveyed in the HTML part of the email is worthless, which may not be the case. I can see from the downvotes t…

I don't think that is a very good argument in these modern times, with the relatively huge storage and bandwidth availability. The extra size of such formatting markup is negligibl…

Seems a rather archaic requirement to be imposing on one's users, but thanks for clarifying!

Consciousness in the medical sense can be considered along axes of wakefulness and awareness. For example, in a coma the subject is neither aware nor awake. In contrast, patients i…

The author hasn't made a case for why he needs to send plain text emails. Every mail client - including text mode ones like Pine - supports HTML formatted emails, even if they end …

You'd be wasting your time as there is no feedback as to whether your attempts have worked to frustrate their targeting, and that's the best case scenario. The worst case is that s…

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. They may have stopped attacks but not revealed any information about this publicly, or engaged in misdirection as to their role usin…

Hidden services can't be located in that manner unless the owner has badly misconfigured the service so it's reachable by IP address. A typical configuration would have the service…

Headline should be modified to indicate that the study was carried out in the USA. It's not generally applicable to the world population, or necessarily to all high-income countrie…

The problem with 'intelligent design' is that it's such an infantile way of trying to understand the world. Stating "God did it", rather than using one's brain to figure out the me…

How do you know it doesn't work? From all we've been told (very little, mostly through leaks) there isn't enough information to make that judgement. The key issue isn't the potenti…

It's a poorly argued essay. The author starts from an assumption that the Bible is true and cherry-picks evidence in an attempt to support that, choosing the interpretation (or mis…

Oh, I agree. Just pointing out that mass surveillance may well be both helpful to national security and very damaging to human rights. For what it's worth, I suspect it's unduly ba…

You exhibit a disturbing lack of empathy.

Apparently it's any site that sells the "Datalink GW1000".

> Your beliefs are wrong, as we have been shown that this mass surveillance has failed to prevent even one terrorist attack since its inception. We don't actually know this. Mass s…

I find this view rather short-sighted. To some extent I agree with you that there are benefits to mass surveillance, and that on the whole it is (probably) not currently being wide…

Could you please elaborate on some examples of this?

I also have this problem, but on a Windows laptop with 2GB. However, Firefox has recently been crashing several times per day, which sorted out the long-running memory problem but …