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> (Russia, US, UK, China) +France

I find that rather offensive. Implication that what, moi can't think for myself or am a sock puppet? > "Speak ill of no man" Aha.

I have a "radical" idea: why not actually let the constituency of this party make the choice.

This is correct. There is a social context to this matter. The advocates of 'almost right is most cases is ok no harm done' are ignoring the (likely) operational and utility contex…

Back in late 80s we were building automated Fortran to C converters. Client was in the aerospace field. > What is the value if is done automatically, nobody learns anything and the…

Sorry, but personal views? This is a matter of history. These companies made obscene profits for their owners. India and China were looted.

East India company calls to say forget me not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_india_company The beginnings of capitalism & colonialism. Systemic wealth transfer is not a myster…

We have definitely experienced "boom bust cycles" since the creation of the Federal Reserve. The very first such bust was called the Great Depression.

Cubism was ultimately a dead-end as well.

Many thanks.

> So CrowdStrike is deployed as third party software into the critical path of mission critical systems and then left to update itself. TIL that US government has pressured foreign…

what does archive.ph have to do with that? Isn't it just a way to get around paywall?

> its a very difficult problem to do generally. Can you expand on this?

1 - (Application) System exist in the real world, not software. Software exists in machines. 2 - Computing is used to solve real world problem. 3 - "In building software we inevita…

All happiness is rooted on purposive and positive mental ideation of one's existence. Having children will affect your mindset and worldview; for almost everyone I know this change…

> The real world definitely isn't Ironically, (ime/o!h;) it turns out this the "root of evil" plaguing abstraction : thinking that software architecture must map to "the real world…

> Absolutely true, but how do you expect that to happen or come about? In the same manner through which legal protection for various other matters have come about. By raising aware…

Enough of this waiting for virtuous entities to address legitimate concerns of the public. The "ad industry" is a cancer and we need legal protection against this "industry". The s…

> Except that before GUIs became popular amongst programmers, the "technically unwashed" all used the command line. Not even remotely factual. Technically unwashed before GUIs is b…

In my view CLI is "inherently" more abstract and requires a relatively deeper understanding of the system that is being interacted with. I honestly find it strange one needs to ela…

Your point regarding unintended consequences is a valid concern.

GUIs are more accessible so if we're playing this game, sure GUIs are "antisocial" in the sense that interactions can not be shared but on the other hand, GUIs are democratic since…

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Thanks. (page 151 for those interested)