My integrity is very accommodating in this regard, it only really pays attention when it matters. My attitude towards mythical creatures falls in the same category as white lies.

Being a theist may be a fundamental belief, but I'm not sure the same applies to atheism. If the majority of humans believed in unicorns and I had to state that I believed in unicorns as well to get a job (which does not involve any equines, horned or otherwise) I wanted, I would happily lie about believing in unicorns without feeling I've "betrayed a fundamental belief".

It's nothing like that, because users choose to install an add-blocker, and ABP is not the only add-blocker out there.

Since you can't actually block the students from accessing facebook, isn't attempting to do so a waste of taxpayer money?

Seems pointless, don't they all have phones with mobile internet these days?

It's not a clever idea at all. Criminals will simply exchange their bitcoins for another currency, possibly multiple times, immediately after committing their crimes. Unless you think the right response after a theft of $X is grabbing some random people from the street, taking a total of $X from them, and then burning it is the correct way to stop crime?

And why would anyone cooperate with this crazy scheme? Perhaps you are willing to say that (using the numbers from your example) a bitcoin tainted by a particular crime is worth only 90% of its former value. The rest of the world might not agree that the value has reduced and pay full price (well, not to you of course, since you'll accept 90% of full price), but among one another. At the end of the day a bitcoin is only worth what others are willing to trade for it, and unless you manage to get most of the world on board with your scheme, it's just not going to happen.

LLVM is pretty smart, it will probably be able to remove dead stores most of the time. Using iterators in Rust will avoid bounds checks. I think the benchmarks game shows that Rust need not be slower than C or C++.

Nope, Rust is being used by Mozilla to develop the experimental layout engine Servo, but there are (as far as I am aware) no plans to completely rewrite Firefox in Rust. There are plans to gradually replace some components in Firefox written in C/C++ with Rust, e.g. a url parser and a mp4 parser, but I don't think these are part of the current Firefox release.

Commerce? Are you mad? What could the moon possibly produce that, after the cost of moving it from the moon to the earth, couldn't be produced for a fraction of the cost here on earth?

If passwords expire in just 30 days people will either stop picking good passwords or start writing them down (they'll probably do both). A password should be usable for several months at least.

> It's a chicken and egg situation. Do they advertise to women less because fewer women click ads for high paying jobs, or do fewer women click ads for high paying jobs because they advertise them to women less? Let's assume google is not completely retarded, surely they measure the effectiveness of an add by looking at how often it was clicked compared to how often the add was shown (click-through rate). Or do you really believe they only count the absolute numbers?

I heard they'll make you an offer you can't refuse.

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Not that hard in Rust either:

let badref: &u32 = unsafe { std::mem::transmute(0 as *const u32)};

But doing this trick is UB in both C++ and Rust, so it's not really fair to hold it against either language. Having said that, one advantage of Rust would be that it is impossible to create such a bad reference without using an unsafe block, while in C++ it seems much easier to do so by mistake.