Compassion is not the only virtue. Other virtues like fairness or loyalty can sometimes be more important. Letting those other virtues hold sway does not make someone a psychopath.

That is precisely what it means. If a politician is asked their plan to solve some issue on live TV, they often will do this weird thing where all the words are real, and you can even diagram the sentence, but it conveys no meaning. It is practiced and purposeful. This happens mostly when there is no viable solution to said issue.

It just looks like MATLAB to me. Matlab isn't niche. It is quite high and climbing in the tiobe index for whatever that is worth.

Nuclear is pretty difficult even with perfect documentation just from a process standpoint. But in any case, the personality that stabs or shoots is different from the one that bombs or poisons. Maybe one is just less likely to carry through?

Also, trying to restrict this data won't work. The world needs to plan for metal printed weapons to proliferate that may not even need traditional ammo. Fuel-air sending fishing weights down a tube for instance. We can make 3d printers illegal I guess but that seems wrong.

I live in "flyover" country and travel for work to the coasts. I haven't noticed any geographic correlation to racism. People who are racist in the abstract, vs peoples they have never met are more common in places you don't meet those peoples, but people who are racist against peoples they meet everyday seem as evenly distributed as rude drivers.

I work with many former military. Those that were deployed actually seem less racist and sexist than average. Hard to hate people who have your back I would guess. The ones that didn't deploy, or drove drones might have a slight uptick in anti Arab sentiment. Easier to hate people you don't meet but still have to kill maybe?

Anyway my experience is that the simmering cauldron of hatred that is the militaristic midwest is a boogie man. Another form of distrust for people you haven't met many of.

Iron sulphate initiates massive algal blooms. If done outside of shallow waters, the blooms are healthy ones, not the fish killing kind. In fact the one test Canada did created such an abundance of salmon they cancelled the season part way through. It also sequesters massive amounts of co2, much more than the weight of iron sulphate used. No one is sure about the long term effets, but the one test had no measurable impact on biodiversity.

Its an interesting idea and it might be true but the evidence isn't in. Tedx isn't ted its just whoever wants to talk. In this case it is better than most, he is actually a PhD in charge of a research organization, but his research is based at least in part on falsified results.

https://www.the-scientist.com/...

Public communication can move mountains of cash. Just because most of us use it trivially, does not mean it cannot have real power.

DDT wasn't really a disaster. It dropped malaria to zero for long enough to get rid of it in many of the places it was used, and the mosquitoes had become resistant so they stopped. No one actually cared about the condors.

I want cold hardy avacados and mangoes.

If a whole union exhibited a political bias to employers that might be a problem, but since individual employees are at such a disadvantage I see no problem with your behavior. The converse, where an employer discriminates or supports employees in discriminating against individuals with a certain set of politics is not OK.l, because the massive power imbalance in that direction.

You can model ideas like gut bacteria. Sometimes symbiotic, sometimes pathological, spread mostly by inheritance but altered wildly by what you consume.

Also, evolution doesn't favor anything, it has no agenda. Traits that are good enough to make babies persist. Birth control may change some aspects of which male personality traits work for reproduction, but in general, humans haven't changed that much behaviorally since we used ochre on stone walls. Changing ourselves is a lot harder than changing our world. Especially changing our motivations, and getting rid of war seems like an unlikely route for evolution to take.

I only ever used it for things I would have preferred to use MATLAB for, so memory leaks or uptime weren't things I looked close enough at. I can image somewhere out there exists a safety of life critical piece of software in VBA that has its VM cycled by a chronic job to avoid memory exhaustion. Because that is the world we live in.

I'm completely serious. VBA way outperforms numpy. It is compiled to native vs the .net VB which is not. And it has everything I need for simple blas and even nonlinear programming all baked right in. Also it can call out to DLLs with a very low cost ffi.

I might have been overzealous in my statements to get a reaction. I do think copy and paste can be the beat form of reuse for domain specific stuff that is "just different enough" from an existing bit of code that generalizing it gets ugly. I have seen more instances of code that was made common for reuse that subsequently became less or un usable by any of its users than I have seen of the "oh crap I only fixed that bug in the other spot" problem. I prefer paraphrase to copy and paste as a form of reuse anyway. And then in so many instances I have seen people reuse code but they decided to create a wrapper to abstract away the lack of understanding they had, unknowing that there were already three such layers created for exactly the same reason.

I don't enjoy programming so much as having my programs work. Anything that makes that more difficult irks me. I hate abstraction layers for the most part. Coding standards are usually over generalized best practice. And the hideous nonsense we perpetrate in the name of reusability, extensibility, and maintainability makes me nauseus. Instead, "you aren't going to need it", "rewrite don't reuse", and " don't abstract what you don't understand".