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by dansze 10y ago
Afaik the idea behind elected prosecutors and judges is to make sure that the law represents what the people want, since a prosecutor or judge that fails to convict when the people want a conviction won't get re-elected. So yes, they a
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by dansze 10y ago
Except in brain surgery the surgeon generally still gets paid.
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by dansze 10y ago
To be fair, money laundering is associated with cash in countries where people mostly pay with plastic. Admittedly, the reverse association is fairly weak, as I doubt that bringing up cash will make people think of money laundering all that
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by dansze 10y ago
I'm not convinced they hired any in the first place, based on what their branding and internal processes.
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by dansze 10y ago
Actually, that's an interesting question: How much more efficient transportation-wise is ending prices in .95 and transporting nickels?
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by dansze 10y ago
I actually almost never use the OOP parts of D because metaprogramming generally offers a more elegant solution to the problem than polymorphism. That doesn't mean there's no downside to the metaprogramming in terms of project com
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by dansze 10y ago
By default, D has no safeguards to prevent you from doing memory-unsafe things, and afaik no compile-time checks short of marking your main method as @safe. However, because the language is by default memory managed, it is fairly easy to st
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by dansze 10y ago
Which leads us to the current situation of the only people who stuck to exercise long term are those for whom "exercise for the sake of exercise" is play.
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by dansze 10y ago
The compiler already depends on the state of the file system though, notably because it depends on the source code. In the above case, the xml is essentially just another source file that happens to not be in the same language. An important
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by dansze 10y ago
A huge number of games used torrents for patching since around that time, notably in the MMO scene. WoW and every Nexon game come to mind. AFAIK the Battle.net launcher still downloads updates via torrent.
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by dansze 10y ago
I prefer to call it mental acrobatics.
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by dansze 10y ago
I think that the author is on the right track, but stops just short of an (possibly the) important conclusion. While it is true that the text of the Bible is relatively faithfully translated, discounting minor biases of the translator, many