If the bread costs nothing, why are the capitalist robot owners ordering their robots to bake bread?

What the hell are we going to do then? Not work as much.

If there's not going to be "enough" work to support everybody on a full-time basis but there's enough productivity to supply everyone's needs, why keep people working? This whole notion of a "job threat" is absolute bullshit. What happened to the days when automation would create a utopia of ease and leisure, eh?

Just noting, but programming languages are also an aspect of computer science. You can research and study them without ever touching a mainstream industrial language, if you like.

Don't feed the trolls.

Having actually submitted to top-level conferences, I can tell you that I really doubt this kind of crap would get published nowadays. At the very least, reviewers are going to demand lengthy "Related Work" and "Discussion" sections in which the authors will have to cite the reviewers.

Ummm... I write an open-source project, and if I could get compensation for my work, I totally would. Problem is, nobody is going to look at an early-stage open-source programming language and compiler and say, "here's $100 for a copy". There's no grants committee I know of to whom I can apply for funding, either. It bascally comes down to: I put in a lot of labor-of-love hard work, and eventually if people like the tentative releases enough, they start to contribute in kind. That leaves me with a damn large initial barrier to overcome: designing and building something to the point of usable releases.

Because back before any short-term protection, making a living as a "creative" mostly required patronage of the wealthy.

Nowadays, we have several mechanisms to get around that: government arts funding and copyright are the primary two.

They keep saying that, despite how stupid it is. I don't know why. I'm 22 and I certainly don't get to live like a 12-year-old.

So the 20% of Israel's population that is Arab and can vote are "a few token Arabs in the north"?

Look, I oppose the occupation of the West Bank as much as anyone, but this is obviously about nationality on the Israeli side rather than about ethnicity. No, the two sides are not the same: in Israel, murdering an Arab civilian is considered an atrocity, in the West Bank, murdering a Jewish civilian is considered an accomplishment.

Well yes, obviously, but there's a lot of people with vested interests in saying, "Jews are European, Arabs are Middle-Eastern, and never the twain shall meet."

Well yes, this is very true, but do you see the Middle East building a particle accelerator via international cooperation and then letting Israel in on it?

Does the Islamic University of Gaza or Birzeit University have particle physicists with the qualifications and desire to work on CERN?

It's funny how supposedly the bottom half of the country pays no income taxes, but when I was a student and was lucky to get $10,000/year taxable income, I paid income taxes like any good citizen. Care to teach me which tax-breaks I was missing?

You know, you can complain about lolspeak and memes, but I don't think we've really lost any ability to express ourselves. While educated people have certainly read works of literature with excellent emotional expression (Shakespeare or Pratchett come to mind for English-language literature), colloquial speech has simply never included really profound capabilities for emoting. Start trying to talk like a book and you come off as a pretentious toff.