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> even GC isn't necessary Um, isn't it? Don't all Lisp variants have it? IIRC McCarthy's LISP just ran out of memory until the GC was written.

> steps the RNC didn't even take, in this case. What steps are you referencing? I don't get your comment. Also, the DNC and RNC just choose people and fundraise. It's strange to me…

> I'm really not sure why Democrats don't just let Trump shoot himself in the foot. That had been their strategy, to just let Trump do things and become unpopular without drawing a…

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2 years ago, Wharton predicted that the U.S. debt would be defaulted on in twenty years [0]. > Under current policy, the United States has about 20 years for corrective action afte…

Funnily enough, this has resulted in people saying things like "見てみましょう" and "見てみてください", which confused me at first. But I suppose this is like non-native English speakers being co…

Yeah, firing the labor statistics head because Trump say she's been faking the numbers to make him look bad actually makes it seem both obviously politically motivated and casts wh…

Because he talks like them, and they know he's a scumbag, but he's their scumbag, which they sic on the people they hate most: the vermin liberals, the immigrants poisoning the blo…

>This is clearly dog whistle langauge and not intended to be taken literally, but it is starting to be a common trope and it makes me very curious as to how this industry operates?…

> "C is the language that combines raw power of assembly with expressiveness of assembly." The most expressive part of C is the syntax oriented around writing terse, side-effectful…

Yeah, it would have to be something like this if you wanted to avoid the signed integer overflow at the end of the loop: assert(i

> I did consider that, but I wrote "in general" for a reason. It works very specifically in the case of "add one" or "subtract one", but it doesn't work with anything more complica…

It's true that theorem provers can be just sufficiently advanced type systems (the Curry Howard correspondence), but not all theorem provers operate that way. Isabelle/HOL operates…

Perhaps it's that you never have to read the whole file into memory at once if it's with a `FILE *` rather than a string. I'm not that person, this is just my assumption.

>I have not taken any position on whether or not children should be targeted with messages across the spectrum, ranging from the extreme on one end "It's okay for boys to play with…

If it were just a soft C, then "ocean" would sound more like "oh-see-in" or "oce-yin". But it's also been palatalized to sound like "oshin" in typical pronunciation. People might n…

> since haskell is non-strict, if can be implemented as a function, and iirc it is "If" can be implemented as a function in Haskell, but it's not a function. You can't pass it as a…

More important than the Heritage Foundation is the Federalist Society in the case of getting more conservative judges.

You're right. Those languages have morphological passive voice conjugations for their verbs. That, combined with their flexible word order, offers expressivity. I was just pointing…

> But but but the creator himself said it is gif like in gin and giraffe... right? Yeah, that's what the creator said, and that's actually how I pronounce it, too. Just pointing ou…

There's also Finnish.

The passive voice just switches the roles so that the patient is the subject and the agent is the object (e.g. in "The ball was kicked by John," the ball is still the patient despi…

And yet there's also girl, gift, gimp, gill, gibbon, and giggle.

> We Italians, when we were children, we were taught to read based on the written letters, and we were able to read any word. It was normal, during primary school, to pronounce a w…