He said if someone is a poor performer they should be compensated accordingly.

So, no more golden parachutes?

So what does it mean that capitalism is founded on that very idea, that everyone will do what is in their own best interest?

It means that the ideological structure of capitalism will eventually get in the way of human progress, which seems to be happening now, and needs to be replaced. The question is, will this happen through reform or revolution?

This has probably something to do with global/local scope.
If your variable is declared with a "var", it's local, otherwise, it's global.
You probably missed some var i, and your i variable is global, leading to random crashes if the loop is used at several locations.

I had a worst experience: hardware bugs.

Back in the 90s, I was working on a trucks game.
Strangely, when playing via network, the trucks on some computers sometimes desynchronized.
I spent one week locating the problem by digging into verbose logs: it was due to the FDIV bug, which was subtly changing the positions of some trucks.

More recently, I spent a lot of time figuring why some programs crashed on my computer.
After a few weeks, I realized that some bits in the RAM were dead, writing into them returned random values.

It certainly is my money. I pay taxes like everybody else, and I'm entitled to a share of what the government does with my money, according to the laws that my elected representatives passed.

You're saying that if I've been paying taxes all my life, and I have cancer and I could be cured for $50,000, but I don't have $50,000, the government should leave me to die, like that guy in the NEJM article http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/1...

I don't believe that and most American don't believe that. I don't think there's a developed country in the world where they believe that.

A stray ; 30 years ago in some C took me a week to find, replacing the intended body of a loop with an empty block IIRC. I have ever since tried always to { } statement blocks so that it is easy to tell what was intended...

Also I strongly echo the "make sure that you're editing what you're running/debugging" comment elsewhere. Still horribly easy to get that one wrong in lots of different ways...

Rgds

Damon

Program crashing at startup? Okay, let's add debugging statements.

Can't get the debugging statements to execute? Okay, let's try removing code.

Doesn't fix the problem? Okay, let's keep removing more... and more...

A couple hours later, so much code was removed that the entire program had become nothing more than an empty main function that still crashed. This led to the following rule which I try to follow to this day: Make sure that you're actually compiling and executing the same copy of the code that you're modifying. ;)

As long as so many companies, towns and states earn so much money digging dirty polluting black rocks out of the ground and burning them to generate electricity, there is no chance that that the USA can move to a cleaner greener future.

I don't think so. However, I did 23andme and imported the data into Nutrahacker. It reported a homozygous defect that is correlated with gluten sensitivity. Also, I have urticaria, and years ago, an allergist told me to get off of gluten.
Since I've been off, the itching hasn't changed, but my concentration and energy have been gradually but noticably improving (I have chronic fatigue).

No, you've got that backwards. Millenials don't give a shit about cars. But IME the majority of people who give their cars names are over thirty and female, or over fifty and male.

Well, I don't know how you got onto turkeys in particular, but Tyson Chicken (the world's largest producer of waste animal fat) has a chicken-fat-to-biodiesel plant...

What I'm saying is that the available evidence supports that idea at least as much as the idea that they're actually doing swaps. If they're actually doing swaps, why is definitive evidence so hard to come by?

Yep. Would you accept that the vehicle actually behaved differently, but he didn't notice? If you chopped 5% of the performance off completely linearly, nobody would even notice.

If I pay taxes, it's my money too.

When I read the Wall Street Journal editorial page, they said that all their arguments boiled down to greed. Greed is good, they said.

I'm not sure that pre-mixed is the most economical move. Water is very heavy by volume and makes the nutrients takes up a lot more space. This is why dried beans, concentrated fruit juice, and powdered supplements are cheaper. (Powdered milk is dirt cheap, but it tastes spoiled, so there are exceptions.) With the powdered formula, they could keep the costs down. With the liquid formula, shipping is going to wreck the economics of it. I could see having some liquid formula in the fridge for when you're occasionally in a hurry in the morning, but I wouldn't make it a staple.

I'd be eating Soylent now were it not for the oats. I have a genetic sensitivity to gluten. Although pure oats are technically gluten free, it's often contaminated, and some very sensitive people react to a similar gluten-like protein in oats. I'm not taking the risk.