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Comment Re:Insightful? Seriously? (Score 1) 263

Parties predated the Constitution, as they are an inevitable byproduct of electoral democracy. Some of the founders hoped to avoid them, but they split into the Federalist and Anti-Federalist parties as the Constitution was being written. Primaries are an internal party matter, each makes its own rules and there was no need for either to be mentioned in the Constitution. The term Gerrymandering didn't exist until 1812 and States draw congressional districts. Corporate personhood is a fundamentally necessary legal concept that predates the Colonies , which were themselves incorporated. As are municipalities, churches, NGOs, unions, non-profits, etc. Their personhood is established in common law, and supported by the Constitutional rights to free association and making contracts.

That is simply not true...

Comment Re: Porting NetBSD to Rust. (Score 1) 49

I'm not 'trolling'. I'm completely serious. Maybe you haven't used Rust yet but it's the next generation of programming. It offers unparalleled safety without sacrificing performance. That's the beauty of Rust's zero cost abstractions. Rust is what languages like C, C++, Java and C# should have been. It's still a young language but as more people learn about it we're seeing its usage skyrocket. Mozilla is already using Rust for parts of Firefox. I think we will see the same thing happen to most software projects. They will gradually use more and more Rust until all of the original C or C++ or Java or C# code is gone. If you're a programmer and you're not using Rust already, then you likely soon will be. Rust is taking the programming world by storm.

You will be glad to know that I've taken your words, pasted them into MS Word, prettied them up with a fancy font, printed them on a nice piece of paper, framed that paper and hanged it the wall of my office for the years to come. Thank you for this inspiration.

Your Friend in Rust,
FootNipple

Comment Biological (Score 1) 98

AI or machine learning is just computing. That's all it is. And with better and faster computing resources, we can do more with it which makes sense. However, for "real" AI or machine learning to occur, there will need to be a biological substrate upon which such systems are to be built. I think this is the case because I believe that intelligent life is the universe's only way to "truly" conserve information.

Comment For the Knee Jerks (Score 5, Informative) 404

For the kneejerks, I humbly offer the original document this Senate resolution references:
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/...

I wonder if the Senate overturned this regulation because they hate privacy or because of the fact these are "legislature level" rules being enacted by unelected bureaucrats in the last days of an administration that did everything it could to control its citizenry without the approval of Congress.

And this is to say nothing of the fact that Google and their ilk shouldn't be allowed to indulge in their raging data collection fetishes without letting the big telcoms and isp's wet their beaks. Right?

Comment Re:It's not gonna work (Score 1) 193

We see through your lies !

Everyone thinks they want to raise kiddos, until they actually have to. Then it's not quite all the fun and games those with kids attempt to make it out to be. They're just trying to trick us into joining the twenty year misery train they have elected to ride. Hahahaa. No

Who are you, Malthus? You must really feel strongly about this topic as you've posted a boatload of anonymous, high negative energy posts.

Anyway, serious question: Do you wish your parents felt the same way as you and would have acted accordingly?

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