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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 are politicians, and I'm not convinced that's a good thing.

Of course, being north of the border, I'm not exactly versed in American state politics.

Except in brain surgery the surgeon generally still gets paid.

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 often.

I'm not convinced they hired any in the first place, based on what their branding and internal processes.

Actually, that's an interesting question: How much more efficient transportation-wise is ending prices in .95 and transporting nickels?

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 complexity, but once you get past the part where you rebuild the universe from scratch it's smooth sailing.

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 stick to safe code without this by avoiding pointer/cast voodoo.

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.

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 difference is that the compiler doesn't know it's using that file ahead of time, which could have some unforeseen consequences, but I don't see anything immediately worrying about that fact since the compiler didn't know about the source either at it's own compile time.

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.

I prefer to call it mental acrobatics.

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 people have changed or popularized convenient interpretations of that same text. For example, I doubt that the Catholic church put a large amount of emphasis on the accusations against King David, especially compared to those that sided with the French Revolution. Of course, if we consider different sects, interpretations vary even more. In practice, every major movement in Europe likely had an interpretation of their own, including the Marxist secularist movement. After all, there's no need to be Christian to draw conclusions about the meaning of the text.