All along the Mississippi River towns filter and purify water from the river for drinking, then treat their sewage and put it back into the river. If you drink the water near the delta then part of what you're drinking has been through dozens or hundreds of people.

Connecting the output to the input eliminates some of the waste of wastewater. It's good enough for NASA, so it's good enough for you.

• regardless of ease (theoretical expressivity)
• concisely and readily (practical expressivity)

• The first sense dominates in areas of mathematics and logic that deal with the formal description of languages and their meaning, such as formal language theory, mathematical logic and process algebra.[2]

  In informal discussions, the term often refers to the second sense, or to both. This is often the case when discussing programming languages.[3] Efforts have been made to formalize these informal uses of the term.[4]

Yes, both can be useful definitions. When discussing comparative expressiveness of two Turing-complete languages the second holds more meaning. Being Turing-complete means they are equivalent in the first meaning.

At some point shrinking impressionist art pretty much just makes it.. art, right?

PDO is based on the Perl5 DBI which was done the right way the first time. "Deprecated" doesn't mean it's not being used. Once it's actually removed and people are actually using 5.6 in production then PHP will be more consistent.

That's just a small example, though, of the failure to support loadable modules and separate namespaces for so long. PHP historically has been very inconsistent. Future PHP may not be so, but it's not the future yet.

Turing complete != expressive

I call bullshit. Nowhere in those other languages is there "mysql_ escape_ string" juxtaposed with "mysql_ real_ escape_ string" in the main language namespace.

That you think C aids in expressiveness over Perl, Python, Ruby, awk, Go, Swift, Rust, D, C#, Scala, Clojure, or even C++ shows you're talking out the wrong orifice. C is a lot of things, but it is not terribly expressive or high level.

So the Congress believes there's no art or science to computer security besides classified information? This is like saying that any soldier who ever went on a classified mission can never market to an employer that he has military experience. This is ludicrous.

Didn't we already re-invade Iraq about a decade ago?

The part of HP's work that applies here isn't the memristor. That's a low-cost SRAM (as opposed to DRAM). HP does have something to say about electron leakage, though. Their photonic interconnects use photons rather than electrons, hence the name.

Gedanken experiment: tell the IRS "Sorry I didn't pay my taxes. I lost my W2." and follow with their reaction about responsibility for your documents and fulfilling your obligations.

"Not publicly traded" does not equate to "do not have stockholders". They wouldn't be required to speak publicly to their shareholders or to file with the SEC, but there are all sorts of businesses which have privately held shares.

If the things are to actually be thought of as currency, then they should be considered fungible. If they are fungible then any price paid for a large quantity of them should impact the value of the market in them and at the same time be informed by the market in them.

There's a matter of due process, sure. Go ahead and step forward as the owner of these coins. They won't sell them out from under you until they are done prosecuting you for claiming to have run Silk Road. Right now it's unclaimed property.

It's an auction. The great thing about an auction is it sets a data point for market value in the fact that people are paying for something in a competitive manner.

The size of the deposit does set a minimum expectation of the value of a block, although I've made deposits (much smaller ones) on auction items that went for less than the deposit. That's not common, but in the case that it happens the balance of the deposit is just returned to the buyer.