piersadrian

this is my new favorite comment on this cursed website

> when taxpayers over in America forgo all of that...

Are you really claiming that if the US stopped subsidizing security overseas, American voters and politicians would suddenly begin to support "free healthcare and college" in the US? Your claim is that it's a _budget issue_?

Fascinating paper, and approachable for a layman like me. And in an rarity for academia, reading NEJM’s site is absolutely wonderful on mobile devices.

This opinion is heavily biased toward a white-nationalist narrative. For instance, the second linked “study” is actually a propaganda piece published by the New Century Foundation, an organization described by its founder, Jared Taylor, as “white-separatist”.

HN is not the place for this.

Agreed - open body-hacking projects are amazing feats of community and perseverance, but the systemic cost and access issues that plague high-end medicine will persist until they’re addressed systemically.

You’re right, that was nasty and unnecessary. I’m sorry.

Oh - thanks! I’m glad someone from the 19th century is here to explain the worldview in question.

I would point you to Swift's implementation of its "Character" type. Swift string handling is a model for how programming languages should approach Unicode characters and their complex combinations. The standard interface into all Swift strings is its "Character" type, which works exclusively with grapheme clusters.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Sw...

for the love of christ, it's OS X, not OS/X

The Israeli policy of Palestinian suppression is to blame. Suppression and violence breeds terrorism and insurgency, and the civilian population of Israel (just like the civilian population of Gaza) suffers for it.

Change your policies. Violence breeds violence, civilian or otherwise.