Markov processes were first used in two domains: text generation and weather prediction. Does it bother you that the typical meteorologist uses Markov methods to predict the weather?

GvR is embarrassed by the fact that he doesn't understand PyPy, and at this point, they can't ever admit that PyPy's approach had any merits. It is no accident that PyPy's team produced like three working JIT frameworks while none of the CPython forks could match them: CPython is architecturally slow.

Source: I still remember chatting with GvR about this like a decade ago at a Chinese restaurant midway through a PyCon.

Relax already. Learn how to NoScript. Most of this site works fine without any scripts enabled.

Yeah, I thought something similar. She looks like a homeless person, unfairly weathered and tired from a tough existence.

Ah, of course, to prevent people from harming themselves, we must lock them up in prisons. It's so obvious!

What a hateful display of dipshittery. Go lick more boots.

This happens all the time: some corporation ships code with incorrect licensing, infringing on the original author's rights and violating the terms of Free Software licenses. In such situations, we normally think of the corporation's code as containing the original author's code as a contaminant; the corporation is never at risk and the author is always open for exploitation.

Maybe we should flip that around and consider the corporate code to be questionably licensed and open for the community to use. The author should not be at risk, and the corporation should be exploited.

You're both right. Science has marched on, though, and now Max will have to compete with vtubers. Maybe the writing team will be able to use this dynamic for additional comedy.

CPython is still 3x or 4x slower than PyPy.

On [a], employers have to pay for workplaces, including certain amenities and essentials. It is cheaper overall to not pay for a single colocated air-conditioned floor, since the employer already has to indirectly cover employee rent and utilities.

On [b], employer-employee relations are not zero-sum, and it is possible that employer investment in employees can help both employers and employees. For example, when employees do not commute, the employee saves money and the employer saves time.

You seem to belong to a subset of humanity which thinks that employees need to be treated poorly so that employers can prosper. I give you a malediction: may all of your interview candidates be disappointed with your proffered salary.

Firing an employee would only increase the employer's legal liability.

So how much BTC do you hold? Sounds like it must be a lot, if you're wishing violence and death upon BTC's detractors.

This is the "extend" in "embrace, extend, extinguish."

The Berne Convention doesn't override the Constitution; it's not an amendment to the Copyright Clause. The legislature can enact any copyright statute, as long as the statute stays within the ambit of the Clause.

Also, the current copyright law allows working-for-hire, which clearly violates the Copyright Clause, so clearly the legislature doesn't consider themselves bound by existing convention.

I live in a city where it's legal to be nude. I used to live in a county where it's legal to be topfree. Many parts of the USA have decriminalized nudity.

It's so funny to hear folks in the UK being snobbish about their prudish and unfree legal system. In the USA, not only do we have freedom of speech, but we are deliberately not "lock[ing] people up for being naked in public," because we want freedom of expression.

If you can't say "fuck the Queen, fuck her Knights, and fuck the entire system of royalty and landed nobility," then you don't have freedom of speech. The UK would have me sentenced to forced labor (sorry, "community service") to the public for such a rude sentiment, despite the continued harms done by the nobility to the public.

Facebook directly caused the Rohingya genocide. They put cheap phones with free Facebook access into Burman hands and "fail to detect" anti-Rohingya memes shared in pro-junta Facebook groups.

Sources:

* https://www.mobileworldlive.co...
* https://techcrunch.com/2018/05...
* https://www.reuters.com/articl...
* https://www.ohchr.org/sites/de...