A language that is expressive enough to allow you to write code that is concise and understandable (but no more concise. Cutting out verbosity is only good when it improves legibility) is going to give you enough of a dialect to make some truly twisted and illegible statements that are, nevertheless, still valid code.

I don't think we should blame the language for being powerful enough that an evil programmer can be unfathomably evil, if it also enables a just programmer to be eminently understandable.

Those statements have been conceded on both sides of the issue....

The point of patents isn't to reward them for inventing a new compression algorithm. They can do that by selling their compression software and keeping the algorithm secret (if they can keep it secret)

The point is to reward them for telling the world how it works, so others can, eventually, use the same algorithm in their own inventions, or learn about compression and create a better one (which they may or may not patent and then the rest of us benefit from that as well)

Surely a design like that would (or could, anyway) handle a loss of coolant fine, as without the moderator the reaction would slow down.

It looks like that because both the supply and demand curves are very inelastic, especially over the short term, so a small change in either results in huge swings in price. The investors do make money off of this, but they are making it off the backs of your retirement funds rather than off the back of your transportation budget.

IIRC, Human Genome Project didn't really kick it into gear until there was a risk that someone else would actually finish the project, though.

Here is wiki entry about a citation. The Wealth of Nations.

My experience is that they try to move you to streaming if you search for disks, but I have both for my account. They really push the streaming service, which I understand is because their profit is way higher without the physical disk overhead.

I would totally switch, too, if 99% of everything wasn't missing from the streaming service....

I get a lot of "suggestions" for things I've already watched (they love the "watch it again" recommendation under the assumption I'll probably like it because I liked it...), and they don't let you filter out things you've already watched, or things you never want to watch. Instead all you can do is try to train their recommendation system and hope that it actually has some kind of meaning.

Worse, their "new releases" section provides a list of everything released in the last $@#NNNANAS ago, instead of whatever was added in the past several weeks, sorted by week. They are deliberately making discovery difficult, which gives the impression that they are trying to disguise a shallow pool of movies.

Still, they are one of the few services that provides the kind of streaming service that I'm actually willing to pay for - a service in which I pay them, and they show me movies. This is far superior to the BS system that hulu has in which they show stupid ads on the free service, which is fine because you pay with your attention, or you can pay them and watch the stupid ads on your phone or TV, too. There is no option where you are the customer instead of the product.

I'm not suggesting it should read the bills themselves (although, when dispensing, it should probably read/scan them as a sanity check), but that it should read the cartridges, which should have encrypted IDs, moving the problem to the facility where the cartridges themselves are packed, but that's more manageable.

Yeah, the support for windows games really needed to be better than, "and you can stream them from a windows machine that you also own"

Sure, if it's cheaper, great, but is the "imperishability" of steel really a problem? Iron is the most recycled material on the planet....

Why is this possible? You can hardly by a $50 printer that doesn't know exactly what ink cartridge has been placed, but ATM's need to be told by the operator?

We have a solution to CO2. The environmentalists, acting as useful idiots for the coal industry, have layered defenses against implementing it.

These particular coral are quite doomed. They are, after all, scheduled to be dredged...

The language is a bit suspicious, though,

instead of "[to make way for] larger, more efficient cargo ships." or something more neutral.

Shipping companies don't want bigger ships just for the heck of it, after all, they want bigger ships because they can move cargo at lower cost per ton.

He doesn't owe us anything. He already gave us the art, and it was great. And it's still around.

Contrast this with other artists who have altered their work so that you can only get bootleg copies of the original anymore, and who we pray will not alter it further.

Personally, I think there ought to be a copyright exemption for a work that an author refuses to publish. Copyright is supposed to encourage publishing.