The Greeks hollowed out their economy using borrowed bailout funds to continue previous corrupt and unsustainable practices rather than make the necessary reforms they had said that they would, and this is nobody else's fault but their own. It's like using your student loans to party like crazy and then flunk out. Going to the well a second, then a third time, no wonder there are trust issues.

Its estimated that the economic turmoil of keeping the banks closed for two weeks has caused 25 billion in damage. Totally self inflicted. This is what you deserve when you have a clown appoint another clown as finance minister. There's a big difference between managing the economy in a game and realpolitik. Otherwise I would be finance minister for having finished sim city 2k. Also, it's far from a done deal. Will the Greek parliament pass the necessary reforms? And either way, will Greeks step up their national sport of dodging taxes? Throw in civil unrest and the expectations of the government getting the boot and a grexit is still the most likely scenario.

Someone set you up the bombe?

No, because I am an enigma, you insensitive clod!

Not as f*cked as the dev that was hit by the truck, you insensitive clod!

Indeed, compilers already automate so much of our programming job. I remember having to avoid using multiplication by a constant if speed was important, and choosing all sorts of crazy things, just because they ran faster... now, the compiler automates this for me, and I can write code that is more legible and clear.

This is just yet, another form of optimization, which computers have been doing for us for like at least 10 years already...

That skynet would be a lot easier to defeat because it blends.

...oh, shit. It wasn't an Amiga game. My bad.

Ah-heh-hem. Excuse me. I have to do this.

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That would be redundant as they just voted to screw themselves far worse than you ever could. If

You're confusing cause and effect. The SSRIs didn't cause people to become crazy killers, they were taking these drugs because they already had problems. The emotional blunting helps take the edge off of the suicidal thoughts that come with major depression, as the study notes that participants were more adverse to harming to harming themselves or others. The side effects are better than killing yourself.

I mentioned the +/- zero thing in another comment elsewhere in this tree, actually! So we're all on board there.

It's not really that signless infinity is a contender for 'consensus' inasmuch as number systems which use signless infinity have utilities different from systems that have signed infinities, just like integer math continues to exist despite the 'improvements' of fractions and decimals.

I am not concerning myself with representations of mathematical values, except to show the parallels of why it works. IEEE 754 defines a positive and negative infinity, because it has a specific signed bit. Thus, it's easier to define a positive and negative infinity than to produce special code to handle "exceptions"... note also that IEEE 754 defines a positive and negative 0 separately. No, they really do.

My model is a theoretical one that hasn't reached mathematical consensus, and it likely never will. I just note that this is an argument for infinity being signless.

Ah it doubles as a nice Chromebook!

Same reply: Python is not fully functional, and so list constructors like that cannot be counted upon to work elegantly in all situations. This is a completely normal thing common to basically every imperative language, and it's just something you have to accept—and write a special-purpose function for.