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Meh. No doubt there are snobs in the field, but in my experience most of the grit and innovation tends to come from solid engineers without a language/compiler focus, let alone the…

It’s more to do with the purity of their culture resulting from low immigration which fosters a high level of mutual trust. Invariably immigration corrupts the hosting nation’s cul…

One man’s “flame bait” is another man’s truth.

Shhh. Don’t wake the two elephants in the room from India and China. They represent the primary cause for real estate inflation in the Bay Area.

How about (4) stop importing density from India and China. Immigration is by far the #1 cause for extreme density in the Bay Area and the #1 contributor to inflated real estate and…

https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/tree/master/man...

And it was accomplished in 1969 — engineering with a slide rule. I wonder what was different with American culture 60 years ago that enabled such an achievement?

In essence you are saying “low information” votes are harmful and should be discounted. Would you agree the vast majority of potential voters targeted with “get out the vote” campa…

...unless they elect your candidate.

Sage advice from an obvious veteran in the field.

10 years of coding in trade for 10 years of middle management... why would I follow your coding advice? A serious question.

Also for Wirth/Oberon fans: Oberon for the JVM — https://github.com/lboasso/oberonc

Retirement itself is a 20th century concept that requires a ponzi scheme to work. Unfortunately the family unit that used to support its elderly members unable to support themselve…

$100 is the largest federal reserve note today. And even that is under pressure, mostly from the anti physical currency crowd. Considering inflation a $100 note today is comparable…

> Electriticity infrastructure was built to provide electricity to privileged few What group of people built the "electricity infrastructure" you now enjoy? And if they hadn't buil…

I wonder what sort of shift happened in recent history such that S Africa is now a region where “electricity supply is erratic or non-existent.”

Think code generators are the only way to type-safely connect your Java code to JSON, XML, SQL, Javascript, etc.? Think again. Manifold offers a radical new way to connect Java to …

Should they?

Anothet characteristic of the liberal mind: it cannot be endeared to an alternate point of view.