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Comment Re:For an alternative (Score 1) 581

Reddit used to have a policy that allowed sub-Reddits to talk about all kind of shit, as long as it was legal. They changed that policy to a more restrictive one. That is a form of censorship -- totally within their rights, and you can try to spread your message elsewhere, but Reddit has become a less free place. It really isn't that hard to understand unless you insist on a very narrow view of what censorship is.

Comment Re:Easier to learn != easier to use (Score 1) 382

Type erasure, on the other hand, is pure evil - to me, it's the representation of what happens when a pragmatic language ends up into the hands of computer scientists.

Type erasure was the pragmatic way to add generics to Java by ensuring backwards compatibility in the byte code. You'll find that computer language academics almost universally despise type erasure.

Comment Re:git blame (Score 1) 309

Most people don't care about encryption but the ones that do, do.

I'm willing to bet if you polled all the people that use email, a significant majority would prefer that their email couldn't be spied on by governments or other snoops. If it was an easy default hardly anybody would turn it off. The problem is that while people care, they don't care enough to make an effort, especially when it requires effort on the people you are communicating with.

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