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Why can't you earnestly answer a single one of my questions?

You didn't address my question. Which specific part of my comment was "off-topic" given the topic of `the experience of women in tech`? If you don't want to allow discussion of a t…

That's a pretty fast turnaround time. 6 minutes! I don't think the Air Force can even scramble jets that fast. Would you care to point out exactly what part of the comment is "off-…

This is fair, but let's recognize that the discussion takes place in the context of a few well known individuals who have made an enviably successful career as freelance victims, w…

OP doesn't go far enough, it's all he mentioned and an insider contract to move product manufactured by businesses owned by Bush's skull society buddies. Research who Michael Chert…

>American's apathy and frankly ignorance is what gave scumbags a series of blank checks with immunity. Americans didn't do anything learning about Iraq WMD's, 2008 frauds, Snowden …

This is exactly correct. I flagged the submission.

The aviation community appreciates the importance of robust/utilitarian/minimal transmission of information. Look at the format of TAFs and METARs for instance, the raw format of h…

When we use a computer programming language, we are directing an abstract machine to interpret and manipulate data to get a result that we want. We have all the knowledge we need a…

A stain on the history of human civilization. A few men will become rich beyond imagination by a skillful appeal to base laziness and apathy. It's the renaissance of the disposable…

It's moot. The train of the discussion, if you go and read the OP's link and inner links, is like this: - Singletons are bad - Why are singletons bad? - They're not "real" OO, they…

And make 300,000 queries over TCP like getting the list of county names in a state, or getting the list of place names in a county, because my actual use case involves fuzzy matchi…

Sometimes you really do legitimately have a lot of static, global state. For instance, consider a program that needs to reference local, national, and/or global geography and its m…

Who cleans up after anything we do, really? Our economic systems lubricate the exchange of work and capital by abstracting away the cost of cleanup, which is rarely well understood…

Bit depth is not a measure of quantity, but of dynamic range. In other words, what matters is not only how many quantization steps you have, but how large of a space you are trying…

>Some positions are simply not worth discussing thoughtfully. Who decides which is which? I guess you?

Why downvotes?

Sweden is almost 5,000 km away from Syria. What specifically relates these two countries in your comment?

What is Truth?

You're a smart guy who's thinking about the same kinds of things I am. How much do you like your day job?

>watching the news after dinner Found your problem right here. The news no longer serves to inform. It's little more than a conduit for fear, terror, and doubt. Switch off the TV a…

Something else those countries have (to varying extent) is strong public transportation and an ancient and coherent food culture, which has helped them resist the epidemic of obesi…

A mind is a fabulously diverse collection of parts, and each one of everyone's parts is shaped a little differently from everyone else's. It might be a little simplistic to assume …

Can you put a baby or pet into a refrigerator? What about a freezer?

The child's inability to consent to sex is inherent to the attributes of the child, and derives in no way from the attributes of the child's partner. Therefore, any sex that a chil…