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I mostly agree with your points. But coding or programming is as much artistic as it is engineering. It isn't an accident that the historical center of tech is also the center of the drug. Not just performative drugs but also hallucino
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So goes the world of propaganda. Another interesting spin is how we frame ourselves as being the anti-imperial liberators of the world and praising ourselves for workers' rights, anti-child labor and pro-living wage. It was actually th
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Saw "There Will Be Blood" the other day. Thought I recognized Tehachapi and looked it up. Turns out that movie was based in California and not in Texas as I assumed. Excellent movie btw.
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Not just lobbyists. A lot of professionals working for the government, military and all the companies that provide service for the government. Being close to DC, the area is flush with government money which is also funding a healthy softwa
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That's an excellent point. When humans are taught chess, we are initially taught the value or power of the pieces. The queen ( being the most powerful ), then rook ... all the way down to the pawn. Stockfish is programmed to know the v
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A couple of points. Javascript, Racket, etc that he listed aren't "untyped" languages. They are typed. Weakly/dynamically typed. Although I guess some people equate the two. So lets go with that. Also, division by zero i
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Didn't British Petroleum do the same thing? Now they are exclusively known as BP.
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Soros' foundation, Open Society, has supported censorship here in the US and Europe. Whether you agree or disagree with their objectives and methods, intellectual freedom certainly isn't one of their goals. I do think the hyperbol
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Facebook stopped being cool a decade ago when adults, parents, companies started using it. Like most social media, it started with the young and was cool. Then it got quickly adopted by the adults. If anything, instagram, twitch, tiktok, et
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NULL can mean and be different things in different domains of computer science. NULL in the database world isn't the same thing in the programming world. In the programming world, null is a result of the system architecture, systems pr
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There could be a myriad of reasons for slowly shutting down a site. There might be client or advertiser contracts, leasing issues, employment issues and so forth. Of course, customer outrage and mitigation. There might be some value to be e
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Nice write up. But I want to point out that interest rates are leading indicators of the economy, it doesn't follow the economy. It's why the inverted yield curve is one of the widely looked at indicators for future economic healt
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I don't think verizon had any interest in tumblr to begin with. Tumblr was just property that came with their purchase of Yahoo. Also verizon is a $250 billion company. Tumblr and it's potential ad revenue is a rounding error to t
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Pointers aren't just heap specific. Pointers are a language type that can reference memory address ( stack, heap, null or anywhere really ). It's why you can have stack overflow, heap overflow, etc via pointer bugs. Also, C/C
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Grounding science in mathematical models is the ultimate goal. But usually, technological advancement and discoveries precede scientific discovery and modeling. We think science that comes first and from science we derive technology. But it
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Many here are wondering how the chinese government can finance itself when so few people pay income tax. There are many ways for a government to raise funds besides the income tax. People forget that we didn't have income tax in the US
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> those lost lives will cost the US billions in lost productivity over time It's so strange how prevalent it has become in the past few years to talk of human beings in terms of productivity. Growing up in the 90s, all the talk was
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Microsoft has maintained a decades long monopolistic position in OS and Office Suite software. It also has a significant presence in corporate software development ( NT server, Visual Studio, SQL Server, etc). It has been one of the most va
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Pretty much every island near the equator looks like a tropical paradise. But appearances can be deceiving. A lot of these places are poverty stricken because of their distance from economic centers of the world. And many of these island pa