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The US hardly lacks collectivism, it is merely on an incomprehensibly grand scale. Pay your taxes and the state will help you, evade them and the state will punish you. Certain Afr…

Except for Vietnam!

> Linked lists are a very convenient and surprisingly universal data structure, but they really shine wherever you have a recursive algorithm. Which is, in the languages mentioned,…

!! is an extremely common idiom, across multiple different programming languages. Code should be written so that it is understandable by other professional programmers, not people …

C++ is somewhat of a low bar, because of the state of the art in package management in C++ land is "download a header-only library". C++ does have sum types in the form of boost::v…

People who change their religion are often disowned by their family, their spouse might divorce them, etc. It can in no way be considered a choice.

Software is written better. In the past, computational complexity was lowered by arbitrary size limits. e.g. if you had a O(n^2) algorithm you might cap n at 10 and now you have a …

Nope. Fruit juice is mostly water. Even raw sugar is only 380 kcal/g, just a bit more than French fries (310 kcal/g). If you're underweight, you should eat food.

Apple is $750b company built on one product (iPhone). Their business hangs on a thread. What happens if they have a big recall like Samsung had?

It is written by PR people, wire services and politicos. The journalist simply assembles the ready-made components into the lowest energy configuration.

Small claims court?

Chilies are popular around the world for exactly this reason, that you can take cheap ingredients and, with some chilies, create an appetising meal. Because Britain lacks a (good) …

"good" and "bad" are comparisons, not quantifications. The correct question is something like: all else being equal, what is the difference in expected lifespan between a juice dri…

Perhaps the exception that proves the rule, but TextEdit is open source! https://developer.apple.com/library/content/samplecode/TextE...

I don't know about in the US, but in the UK when the Green party attempted to propose UBI they were ridiculed because it would be so expensive. Apparently even the average person c…

Societal collapse doesn't have to mean going back to the stone age, it could mean e.g. the Iranian revolution. Or for a contemporary example: the Syrian civil war. Even Spain was a…

How do you pay for tickets in Vienna then? I kind of like the barriers, if you are on the station platform, then you have definitely paid. For me, the stations that don't have barr…

Laptops won over tablets. The whole post-PC era just isn't happening. That is Apple's problem, they're stuck in the year of 2010 and can't escape. Nowadays, people want to have a p…

The physical resolution of the screen is 2880x1800. The scaled resolution modes work by rendering at 2x then downsampling. So in the mode you quote it is actually rendering at 3840…

You're ignoring the quality of the teacher. If you learn remotely, you can learn from good (or at least adequate) teachers, at a pace that is right for you. I wish that resources s…

It has its own Snapchat Stories now.

The average person eats a diet primarily of carbohydrates, particularly rice. Humans have been high carb diets for the entirety of recorded history. It would be quite the failure o…

Programming sucked before HTTP+JSON became the lingua franca of machine communication. Being able to use any programming language with modern HTTP-based protocols is a real luxury.…

Use Safari then.

Electron is great for user experience. Compare to something like JetBrains' IDEs which are written in Java and are much less native feeling than Atom (and just as resource-hungry).…