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So when we push our brigtest kids into CS, it's to advance technology/knowledge. When the chinese do it, it's to weaponize it?

> I'm a programmer and have been for around 5-6 years, I started with VB.NET since I first started learning, then progressed onto Web Development at a large agency for 4 years (PHP…

> This is good for tech in the east coast. Fin-tech firms WILL HAVE TO compete against Amazon for (supposed) west coast wages, and could help build a much stronger tech industry th…

> Literally the first sentence on this page describe the censored content as "sensational, vulgar or politically harmful content." I know. Hate speech. Also, isn't that the same li…

Dan Carlin is not a historian, he is an entertainer. His podcasts are entertaining fiction, not history. > The Mongols barely left any written trace but wiped out entires cities an…

Why wouldn't china fight against "hate" speech? I find it hilarious that the hypocritical news industry and the leftists mock china for their censorship while they themselves advoc…

> "Political adverts are - and have always been - banned on British TV and radio. That ban has wide support and has helped sustain the balance of views which is at the heart of Bri…

> is still that the majority of C# developers let themselves happily trap by the Microsoft marketing machinery. Or people choose what works for them? Or they have to deal with sunk…

> The Chairman reports to the board. The chairman is the head of the board. He doesn't report to the board. He, along with the rest of the directors, reports to the shareholders. T…

In most companies, the CEO reports to the chairman of the board and the chairman of the board reports to the shareholders ( particularly the major shareholders ). The biggest TSLA …

We don't know if it is an emergent property. That's what we think it is likely. but we won't know until we find out what consciousness is. And we won't find that out until we crack…

Maybe for superficial bugs in small toy programs. But a real bug in any sophisticated program requires a bit more than looking at the code most of the time. User feedback, log/trac…

> Whoever thought the placebo effect was a ‘trick’? People pretending to be journalists who need to clickbait to make money. I wish the nytimes would stop making their headlines a …

That seems managable when you have 3 candidates. What happens when there are 10 or 20 candidates? Would voters have to list their top 10 or 20 choices?

> The practice interview point strikes me as odd. In large, because I have never done one. Do folks really typically do that many practice interviews? I only did practice interview…

> Your argument is: None of what you listed has anything to do with my argument. You just wrote a wall of straw man. > - ...going complete off the deep in the end. As in "How many …

I agree. Surviving a nuclear attack isn't the problem. That's just simply a matter of luck of where you are at the time of the attacks. Surviving the aftermath would require blood,…

Isn't that a step down from teaching people VBA macros? I hope it isn't for a CS class. They should be learning principles rather than creating toy plug-ins which is something anyo…

Nothing. Climate change happens with or without humans. I'm so sick of the climate change fearmongering already. What we will do is adapt, like we always have. The earth is always …

> This, combined with the “Our Trusted Partners” section, clearly shows that this isn’t about getting people out to vote in order to strengthen the democratic process - it’s about …

Part of me wishes it was true. But part of me also knows that betteridge's law of headlines is as reliable as newton's laws of motion for everyday life.

Hopefully this is the first step in tackling IP theft issue. China is a big problem, but so is britain, israel, korea, japan, etc. Sometimes, these countries take our IP/tech and s…

> Imagine if say, Sweden or Canada were to be the next upcoming superpower. Because sweden or canada are such wonderful utopias? Wonder why they have such small populations? Wonder…

If you propagandize one side like that, of course it looks dystopian. You could do the same exact thing for pretty much any state, country or bloc. > In what way is China not alrea…

Twitter has the same problem that reddit, facebook, youtube, etc does. Journalists and the media want to dominate it. Why is twitter so terrible today? Because there are so many to…