You are still free to sign the contract. The state just makes it so that you are free to ignore the contract you have signed. Bam. Even more freedom.

Any laptop will do, since most of your computing will be done remotely. You just need to be able to run SSH or NoMachine. The only thing that matters is that your laptop has enough resolution to show the remote screen. If she doesn't have Linux experience, then a Linux laptop could help with that, since all the computer clusters run Linux.

I'm a plasma physicist, and I say any laptop will work.

And I suppose you belong to the superior race-*ahem* culture that is capable of innovating, and you can't understand why anyone would waste their time with poor Africans who won't ever amount to anything. That's what you believe, isn't it? See, if you really thought it was about culture, it would make sense to provide education where it was needed most, since education is perhaps the best way to overcome deficiencies in the culture.

Zuckerberg and Gates could invest more in America, but they don't owe it to Americans simply because they made more money off of Americans. (Or if they do, you should be arguing for higher taxation, not complaining about where they focus their personal cash.) As far as efficiency of altruistic efforts, it's pretty clear that a dollar will go a lot father in impoverished countries than USA, even when accounting for corruption.

That will never happen.

If that's what Gates and Zuckerberg are thinking, I commend them for thinking about the long, long term. Anyways, if that's the plan, it's win-win for future software companies and Africa. I suppose US software engineers might lose, but who cares?

And I suppose you understand "the little people".

supplying weapons is meddling

We've already tried step 1 many, many times. We're pretty good at killing warlords and toppling governments. What we aren't good at is filling the power vacuum that follows.

The reason is obvious. Scientific notation is mainly used for approximate results, and integers are exact.

I didn't say religion causes racism. I said religion has been used to justify racism. eg. "Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers"

1. Run for office.
when that fails, go to 2
2. Lobby people in office.

But a bad law IS an excuse from the law. Fuck that shit. Defend free speech!

That is true. It's one of the more useful aspects of religion. But religion has historically been used to justify racism more than fight against racism, so we are better off with some kind of secular humanism. (Call it religion if you want)

I think there are some studies that show that even black cops shoot black people more than white people.

This is how science works. The experiment does not make claims outside of the experimental parameters. If you interpret that as implying some sort of claim about white people versus black people, that's your problem. Go research other studies to fill in the gaps.