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It boggles my mind too. This is new to people here?

RCN, on the other hand, simply raised my rate without even apologizing. They pretended to give me a promotion of "increased speed" and then the promotion "expired" and my rate went up. And oops, the old speed and old rate was no longer being offered.

The author seems to have forgotten that birth control is (mostly) a modern invention.

I never said it was the worst. I just said there are others that are better. Please.

    How much money do you think a few generations' of slavery is worth?

I don't know. How many years of race based discrimination is it worth?

    Would you like to suggest one?

As many others in this thread have suggested: actual economic disadvantages, such as poverty, single parent household, etc...

Yes, they will all be flawed, but not all of them will be as flawed as skin color. Just because something is hard, doesn't mean it's OK to do something easy and bad.

If the US government wants to atone for its immoral actions in the past it should pay reparations not institute a system of race based discrimination.

If, on the other hand, the US government wants to help disadvantaged people gain a level economic footing with the rest of the population they should use a much better predictor of disadvantage than skin color.

You must justify it because you are advocating for race based discrimination.

We have already proposed an alternative: economics based discrimination. It is better because it captures the group of people that deserve help more accurately.

We are not whining, we are having a discussion.

There does not seem to be any indication to the user of what they're supposed to do to get the next slide, or even that there is a next slide.

EDIT: Well, OK, now that I maximized there is. But there was no indication that I was missing content to the left or right either. I appreciate simplicity but you gotta give first time users something to get them going.

Knowing the languages only by reputation, you could try D which is more community oriented. I kind of wish it had a backer like Google, because I like it's name better and I heard of it before Go :-) I also hate implicit semi-colons. If you don't want them, then don't have them at all, like python.

I assume he means http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff

It might be useful, but it's trivially obtainable by anyone who needs it by googling, and irrelevant to anyone who isn't looking for it at the time.

There is nothing legal about downloading pirated content (in the US), but the penalties for uploading (distributing) are much higher, which is why those are the people that get sued.

The title is stupid, and titles matter. PayPal is PayPal not because you can send money based on email addresses but because it was the company that figured out how to do it in a way and at a time that won the market. Making a PayPal like website has little to do with why people know the name PayPal, or the company's significance. It's like setting up a toy online book store and saying "How I created Amazon in five days". It's meaningless and stupid. And sometimes things are so stupid they're not worth being "constructive" about.

Didn't this already make the aggregator rounds a few months ago when it first came out?

Paypal? Or a toy example kind of like Paypal?

Sigh. Yes, we know. Hollywood Accounting.

I used to value Ars because they had actual writers, editors, and original content. This new trend they have of being another content aggregator is disappointing.

There's nothing in this article that isn't said better elsewhere. I'd recommend the (free, online) Mindfulness in Plain English: http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html (also available as a "real" book).

It may be what you consider the "acceptable definition" of fruit juice, but it is not the definition in common use.

Also, you are not evolutionarily adapted to eat compounds. You are evolutionarily adapted to eat foods. And fruit juice is not a food you are evolutionarily adapted to eat. It is very different, biologically, from eating an actual fruit.

We consumers might not like what they do, but I'm sure they know how to maximize profits. Why give shows away for free or a pittance, when people who care are willing to pay dollars per episode? I'm sure they're happy to give away quite a few users to whom an episode is worth a dime or a quarter in online ads, in exchange for getting to keep motivated viewers willing to buy the DVDs at $3 an episode.

Striving, yes. Rather than shoehorning, which is what Linus appears to oppose.

LOL, the URL is: http://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html?repost

That might explain why it's so familiar.

So comment threads on HN are now private discussions one has to be invited to?

Like the original commenter I am also tired of the celebrity worship that goes on here (and pretty much everywhere else). Yes, the man died. So do millions of others every day.

I am aware of iter. The proposed claim to be defended is "commercial fusion power by 2040", not "there exists an international experimental project to figure out how to create a fusion reactor with a positive energy balance and an economic durability, neither of which we know how to do yet."

The title, "How Dropbox learned to stop worrying and love the COM" is a reference to the film "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". The object taking the place of the atomic bomb in the variant title is COM. To me this implies that the article will describe why people worry about COM and why they're wrong. I did not find it to contain either.

Admittedly I have never seen the movie, which wikipedia describes as a "dark comedy satirizing the nuclear scare". I suspect the article doesn't follow along those lines either.

Provocative title for a pretty generic article.

1. Summary of COM, a widely used technology

2. Summary of comtypes, a python package for interacting with COM

3. One example of a gotcha they ran into with comtypes and arrays of COM objects.

Conclusion: meh.

Externalities 50 or 100 years down the road tend to have little influence on economics. Parent strongly predicted commercial fusion in 30 years. That will not happen.

Respectable, but not as good, except for straight line speed, for more money. And I'm saying that as someone who'd love a Tesla Roadster.