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The the people downvoting this thinking they're cute: totalitarianism is no joke, and your apathy infringes on my rights. You flat out do not get to be this lame. Get rid of your t…

Is there anyone marketing cigaretts able to claim they're unaware? Aren't those also adults?

There's irony in this: Do you think not judging other people for X or Y makes you better than people who judge other people? :P

> I disagree, I believe it is properly using abstractions to write simpler, more straight-forward code. Straightforward for some readers, or more straightforward for the CPU/GPU?

Actually, it's written exactly as often as the original construct. The idea that writing more than 5 letters, or a for loop here and there, is this giant cesspool source of errors …

Sure, but when programinng, what the machine does and how long it takes, sometimes does matter. I have to think of all those jQuery examples floating about out there that just do $…

> I mean from one perspective a conditional in high level code doesn't describe "what is actually happening, either." Sure, and from another perspective even the most efficient cod…

It's not simplifying it though, it's just hiding the complexity in syntactic sugar. I prefer the first way of doing things vastly over the second. Yeah, it's more code, but it's al…

> It comes from Greek words "demos" meaning "the people" and "kratia" meaning power or authority. A democracy doesn't specify which people Of course it does -- the people. Demos, n…

If you have to be forced in order to act moral, you're immoral. People can call corporations "amoral" all day long, but they're made of people, and their decision to not be moral a…

> facts and data are objective Sure -- it's just a pity neither you or me or anyone will ever come in contact with them. Everything we think/write/read is based on assumptions/axio…