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This is a bit like the "Islam is a religion of peace" discourse. I'm sure it is, but: OOP as actually implemented and found in the wild isn't about Smalltalk or message passing. It…

Is this article using Violet to refer to Indigo?

So there are no gay flight attendants? There isn't an overrepresentation of gay people within flight service? I didn't say all flight attendants are gay – this is obviously not the…

But it isn't "just a voice", isn't it? It's part of a socio-cultural Zeitgeist which actively combats values which I think are worth defending.

> Bengaluru is now the official name in the English language. Who made it official? On what authority? The name in English is the name people use in English. Maybe Bengaluru is now…

Or maybe because it kinda does sound like a gay flight attendant. Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe.

I rather a female assistant voice, because mothers in human societies are women, and we're hard-wired to find motherly voices more soothing. This is getting out of hand, it's unnat…

> There's no reason to jump down a new user's throat. If you are annoyed by a question, move on, let others deal with it if they so want. Or improve it. But then you're keeping the…

As far as I know it has to do with documentation, easier scheduling of the interviews for people who live far away from the consulate, as well as some queueing thing. Clearly I kno…

> It would also be completely unrealistic as millions of Brazilians would just go to the US and stay there. Millions? I don't think so. Maybe a few thousands? I think you overestim…

> whereas the U.S. consulates abroad don't allow this option. I wouldn't know whether this is allowed or not, as I never had use for such a service, but I know a few people myself …

Brazil doesn't belong to Bolsonaro. Also, presuming you're also not a fan of Trump, would you then advocate for all tourism to the USA to cease? I don't think that's a rational pos…

Exactly like the reverse case. What would be better for Brazil is to waive requirements both ways. This just puts Brazil in a clear position of inferiority.

> I visited Brazil with an American passport a few years ago and ended up spending a bunch of time gathering documents and visiting the embassy back and forth. It was pretty discou…

> money-sink international projects with African dictatorships. You mean like those projects that China funds to successfully increase their international relevance and financial p…

That's because it only requires a 50% remapping of finger muscle-memory ;-D

Yeah, I'm actually a closet self-hating racist who built a family with someone I despise. Plus took the time to learn their culture, values, and language; and live my life accordin…

Disclaimer: I'm married to a Chinese person, I speak (some) Chinese, I've been to China. I love Chinese food. There's no racism in claiming that quite a lot of the "Chinese" food o…

I guess I did grow up in relative poverty, though not in a housing project. The area I grew up in, at the time, had lots of Crack but no Meth/Heroin etc. Still, never heard of it. …

"throwaway-burnout" was taken IIRC

I quite often do drugs, multiple types, though admittedly not cocaine. I've never had the luck of getting this seemingly-common "freebie" everyone mentions

Peeps, downvoting is easy. Anyone has counter-arguments?

There's no such thing as piracy. If your business model doesn't work in a post-physical-scarcity world, you need to change your business model.