The roaches as a species did, even though no single individual developed an aversion.

Well, after Smith's and Ricardo's Labor Theory of Value, we now have Charliemopps' Misery Theory of Value.

By the way, what makes you so sure you'll live to retirement age?

Actually, thanks to relativity, the people who said the Sun moved round the Earth are right.

Not that I'm a fan of her philosophy*, but if you want to criticize it, you should at least learn a little of it.

To an Objectivist, saying that the government does things well is equivalent to me saying that slavery is a cheap way of building things. If you oppose slavery as a principle, it doesn't matter if I'm right. In the same way, an Objectivist opposed taxes as a matter of principle, therefore it's irrelevant if they're used well or not.

* I have some sympathy for classic liberalism, but I'm certainly not in favor of her advocacy of egoism.

You have no idea what's you're talking about. Google Authenticator is a client application and it doesn't even run on Ubuntu. And interpreters are not inherently less secure than compiled binaries, because a binary is itself just code being interpreted by the CPU, as millions of exploits based on modifying and injecting (shell)code show.

No, all you needed was a dumbphone, a text messaging plan and a subsidy from Google

There's plenty of small feature phones with real keyboards and decent web browsers (it's been basically Nokia's business model for a decade). Anything that can run Opera Mini is more than enough to search Google and get directions.

Clearly you need more than a "fucking phone" if you want to use Google Search on it.

I showed you how you were incorrect when describing languages as "performant", which was all I wanted to point out.

But in any case: http://morepypy.blogspot.pt/2013/05/pypy-20-alpha-for-arm.html

That's a feature to prevent terrible copy-paste programmers from soiling the community. As it's apparent, it works.

By the way, languages aren't more or less "performant", there are just faster and slower implementations. Pypy is easily at the level of V8.

This isn't just "agreeing" but paying wads of cash, and it's not just "anything", but something that's incompatible with Musk's own business (more oil pipelines don't exactly help an electric car company).

Uh, Musk dropped because the paid ad included something else he doesn't support (building a certain pipeline), not because he's against what the group defends.

Those run IOS, not iOS.

The T-Mobile site says you can charge $10 on a pre-paid card and get 3 months of service, so that's just $40/year, no $80+, unless there's some hidden fee I'm not seeing.

It's still ridiculously expensive (here in Portugal you just need to make any call or send an SMS every four months, so the initial balance of $12 can last you for years), but not quite as bad.

Most of everything is a want, not a need, and there's nothing wrong with that.

You'll still be locked out, because the proposal involves proprietary binary blobs that perform the actual decryption, which won't exist for your platform.

The only "standard" part is the browser hooks for those modules to plug into.