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Comment Re:The world is ripping off China (Score 1) 34

It's very clear that you didn't read the article, don't understand the arguments involved, but SOMEHOW feel entitled to spout your opinion.

Why?? Why not just read the article and become smarter? You don't need to show your ignorance off to the world, you can easily read the article, become non-ignorant and say something informed.

Comment Re: Whats new? (Score 1) 34

The only reason th US is where it is right now is because the dollar is still the world currency. It remains so because you need dollars to buy oil.

People who complain about the US dollar and oil are people who've never taken an economics class.

If you're too lazy to learn economics, then do a simple search to find out the world's oil production compared to the number of dollars in the world, and that should give you an idea of how much influence it actually has.

Comment Re:Once More el Bunko strikes (Score 1) 52

This just in, part of the investment group of Paramount/Skydance is......ta da.....Jared Kushner, who is backed by the Arab Gulf regimes. So el Bunko is sticking his dick into the Netflix deal so he can benefit Kushner. And that's not the only property they want, they want CNN as well.

This would leave major media companies controlled by Arabs. Netflix is an American company. el Bunko will have many avenues for accepting "tribute" for all his "hard" work.

Comment Once More el Bunko strikes (Score 2, Insightful) 52

Ellison's sprog is an el Bunko favorite, a right-wingnut. So naturally, el Bunko figures he can destroy the Netflix deal and throw the remains to Ellison's sprog, for which there will be a trail of bread crumbs back to his pockets. He never does anything except for himself.

Comment Re:money and acturial medicines (Score 1) 234

Simply stated, the psychological industry has a monetary profit motive in getting more people on daily maintenance medicine. Each person on a daily maintenance medicine means 2 to 4 office visits per year allowing a psychologists to have a steady stream of paying customers.

This is much cheaper than actually going through the labor intensive process of psychoanalysis, so insurance companies like it.

Comment Re:Scala? (Score 1) 78

Modern C++ is a seriously powerful and fast - albeit perhaps too complicated - language without all the gotchas of older C++ and plain C.

Modern C++ didn't get rid of the gotchas, it just added more of them. It's fine if you're working by yourself, but you can't prescribe what features other people will use (including the writers of libraries you want to use). But old C++ was fine when working by yourself too.

Comment Re:Writer's Tricks (Score 2) 78

You can add types to your variables in Python. You can use typescript with Javascript.

You can also introspect your types in Ruby, so his point is moot.

There is also the question of why you would add type checking to a dynamic language: if you don't want a dynamic language, why did you choose one? But the reality is most of us don't choose languages anymore, we choose libraries and have to accept whatever language they are attached to.

Comment Re: Holup (Score 1) 142

A lot of lawyers prefer checks because a signed check is proof of intention. Not only is it signed, it often has a "reason" memo written.

This can also work in behalf of the person writing the check (in court). For example, if you pay your rent by check, the landlord shows the intent to accept it when they deposit the check. Whereas if you pay with direct deposit, the landlord can claim they had no intention to accept the money.

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