So you're saying that the number 20 is intrinsically superior to the number 70. Your argument could use some work.

The US pint is two cups or sixteen ounces from Alaska to Florida; it doesn't change from person to person. Which means it is standardized. You may quibble over the standard for a pint varying internationally but our measurements do not vary.

Untrue. Fahrenheit has smaller degrees so you never need to involve a decimal place. Also, zero to 100 on the scale fitting nicely with temperatures humans can function in without being extra vigilant means something in day to day life, while the boiling point of water does not.

Even our barbarian units have standardized values. That's not what TFA is talking about.

On a side note though, Fahrenheit is far superior to Celsius unless you're dealing with the precise boiling point of water more often than you're dealing with human comfort regarding air temperatures.

Telling people the most widely human-used anti-parasitic on the planet is "horse medicine" to keep them from considering it *isn't* dangerous misinformation? The reason that lie was spread is because you can not EUA a drug in the US if there is any valid alternative treatment that *has* been properly tested.

You don't need a medical degree to have a valid aversion when they get caught outright lying to you on pretty much every significant claim they made.

Your idea of "tested" does not live up to even garage scientific standards. The testing should have been large scale, double blind, and have lasted long enough to at least determine if there might be non-immediate side effects. None of the above were true. Human trials weren't just not double blind, they weren't even single blind; part of the way through they told every test subject which group they were in and switched them to the vaccine.

But you don't care about the truth, you just don't want your religion blasphemed.

If wind power were carbon negative, sure. Unfortunately none of the designs in use right now are. They aren't capable of producing enough energy over their lifespans right now to be anything but an expensive lie, because it takes more energy to get one created and installed than it produces before it breaks and gets sent to a landfill.

The difference being that you may be that toddler's daddy but you're most definitely not mine. And neither is Uncle Sam.

Of course there was frequent criticism of /.. The site was created because of criticism of /..

And, yeah, I remember our discussions about what should be done about people saying things you disagreed with. You can play all virtuous and shit over here if you like but the truth is that over there you were asking us to create you an echo chamber by burning all heretics. You are not the good guy, you are a wannabe tyrant.

Roughly ten to one AC vs Registered, last I checked. That was before I quit and they banned AC posting to anything but journals though.

Unicode for SN was easy. I even offered to do it for /. for free after I'd done it for SN. They simply weren't interested.

Yup. Dead on the money on all counts. We didn't want a wannabe corporate douchebag wanting to monetize us. So we went with an idealist without firm ideals who was preferred showing up once every few years, making lots of breaking changes, and then disappearing again rather than showing up every day and putting in the work. We made the right choice but neither was a good choice.

Kudos. It's really not that difficult. The main problem I could see /. having is having to down the site to convert the database over to utf8 or utf8mb4. That would take a non-trivial amount of time compared to when we did it over at Soylent News. Otherwise there's very little in the way of tweaking that needs to happen with Apache2.2/mod_perl2. Blob fields in the db will be the main gotcha. We only had to use about a dozen [de|en]code_utf8 calls over the entire codebase and about half a dozen uses of _utf8_on. Granted you lot have diverged significantly since the codebase we started with was released but if I can do it all by my lonesome, you guys can surely kick its ass in short order.