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Also same exact name as the paper?

Why such an involved effort just to keep racists on the website?

PHP is only "simple" and "proven" in that it has proven countless times that it is simply terrible at everything.

The replication rate of Economics as a field is higher than replication rates for psychology, cancer research, pharmaceutical research, and many other fields. When was the last tim…

Is the name designed to be intentionally confusing?

If you urgently need to retrieve a piece of software, it's likely archived in Software Heritage: http://archive.softwareheritage.org/

It's a good thing that the two are separate. You really want good scientific advances to be put in textbooks, and the rest should be left for history books. You really don't want t…

> As a french Aaaaaargh https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/jldsdr/sérieux_les_...

The goal of DRM is and always have been to lock users inside a platform, not to prevent piracy. It gives companies market power because users cannot easily switch to a better alter…

No, not according to the Open Source Definition of the OSI, which is generally recognized to be the authority in terms of what we call "open source". > No Discrimination Against Fi…

Wrong. The Fed has a dual mandate, they have to keep inflation and unemployment stable. Recessions are bad for employment, it turns out.

It is the good kind of growth, the dematerialization of the economy is a major factor in the lower energy elasticity in developed countries...

I didn't say that it was a developing country, I listed, as the parent commenter said, "aspects in which the US is far closer to today's developing and third world countries than t…

I left.

Yeah, the "few aspects" like the prison system, healthcare, inequality, corruption, homelessness rates, freedom of the press, air pollution, crime rates, discrimination, police vio…

Do you have a timestamp for the vim thing?

> Kudos for making this change! Rakudos, even!

This is correct.

> machine learning model to make major decisions off of I have basically no experience with ML, but from what I know I'm having difficulty understanding how it's different from OLS…

Because people used to be able to use whatever IRC client they wanted for Slack, so it wasn't a problem if they were too memory constrained. In a pure embrace, extend, extinguish f…

I don't know what people expected. Why would you leave IRC/XMPP to go to a walled garden? Nowadays, alternatives exist like matrix.org with an open protocol. If usability was the r…