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Comment Re:Who cares about succinctness .... (Score 2) 165

Poorly done, cryptic succinctness can indeed make code impenetrable. Yet overdone verbosity can destroy readability just as thoroughly. When the language is naturally succinct, it's easy to ensure that it contains enough context to be readable. When the language is overly verbose, you generally can't slim it back down to readable conciseness.

Comment Re:Summary is Troll Rant (Score 1) 795

"It's just the pursuit of truth, which math, peer review, and jargon have no bearing on!"

The guy is a little skewed, but you're putting up a strawman here. He's not saying "have no bearing on" but rather "are not the core of what makes science science, and cannot by themselves make what you are doing science." And that is absolutely correct.

Comment Re: I never thought I'd say this... (Score 1) 353

Yes, but at the same time, paying for an internet line to be run to your house can actually cost more than your house in rural areas

And asking for a subsidy doesn't make that cost go away--in fact, it'll make it higher. You're just making somebody else pay the cost for you.

Comment Re:The real test? (Score 1) 545

I never got the reaction of the start screen. It's basically a full screen Start Menu.

Which is at least part of the problem. A Start Menu doesn't *need* a full screen, and it's incredibly wasteful and inconvenient to make it take up a full screen.

Comment Re:Simple solution (Score 1) 462

Similarly, 99% of the problem could be stopped if they cancelled the Equitable Sharing program and instead insisted that all such seizures to go to the federal government, not to any local fund.

Hmmm...possibly. How much of local cops' seizures actually belong to the feds and are "shared" back by this program, and how much are seizures under local authority--or could be made so if the local cops think they won't get federal seizures back? The latter can't be constitutionally claimed by the feds, although it would be possible to insist it all go to the state government.

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