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Good. Uber can suck a giant dick for their lawbreaking business practices and their treatment of drivers.

Because Uber and Lyft drivers should be fucking employees. I don't give two shits if the taxi industry is disrupted, but I do care about the treatment of their drivers.

"fast" Wtf world do you live in?

Can we quit with the Moore's law bullshit? It's not a law! It's just an observation about the direction a graph seems to be moving. Yeah, we hope processors keep getting more power…

Is there a solution yet in Rust to this problem of, monadic-ish constructs like Result and Option, but no nice way to chain them together without hideous nesting, like Haskell's "d…

Why not take them to small claims court?

So do you think it's reasonable that contempt of court can carry a life sentence without even being convicted by a jury of your peers? Is contempt of court a worse crime than assau…

While this comparison highlights that yes, there are very many possible Go games, it's really apples to oranges. The real comparison would be the number of pieces on a Go board (19…

Anybody who knows anything about human behaviour will know that it was a failure from the beginning. If there is strong demand for the resources in the moon, powerful people will m…

Well, I've cancelled my account. Who needs Netflix when I've got BitTorrent?

My big question: how do you deal with community leadership and moderation? Is the first person to create a particular community that community's dictator for life? How can large co…

Also, sibling is not a 20th century invention in gender neutrality. Sibling is an old English word meaning a kinsmen or relative. It simply saw a revival in the 20th century and ha…

What you have to realize is it's an arms race. When splitting and comparmentalizing is the norm, the government will be putting every effort into connecting the dots between your d…

It's definitely more natural. You'll never hear any significant number of English speakers saying bullshit like "ve, vis".

It's not crazy. English speakers tend to use "they" when they need a gender-neutral option. This just sounds like some edgy teenager... ooh look at me, I'm using some invented new …

> Now I want to use Emacs Whoa, whoa, let's not go that far.

It's relatively recent, to crack down on ridiculous speeders and racers. Honestly those people deserve the book thrown at them. Going 50km over is an instant roadside suspension an…

Great. Freedom of speech in fucking quotes. National security is nuanced. You've got to be kidding me. America has disappointed me.

There are ads in Gmail?

Why are you all arguing about fucking canaries? I grew up with this idea that there was a right to freedom of speech and expression. You're all playing their little games when you …

Actually JavaScript is compiled JIT by most engines these days. While it's not the fastest, it certainly can be quite fast.

Terrorists kill very few people . People driving cars kill far more people . 9 people are killed in America every day related to distracted driving. In four days distracted and tex…

Your own comparison is flawed. Standing in northern Iraq vs standing at a shooting range? What the fuck is this? Accidental gun deaths don't just happen at shooting ranges. It's ch…

MIT license? Is open-source dying?

This is the fear talking. An understandably emotional argument. The people in stretchers dying from all the more common causes of death than terrorism, like being accidentally shot…