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Comment Re: Switching is unavoidable (Score 2) 66

> There's educational value in occasionally being forced to learn a new platform

I came here tonsay the same thing. especially in an educational setting, exposing students to multiple environments should be part of the goal. Not just computing environments, but cultural, social, language and pedagogical environments should be as varied as possible to bring forth flourishing humans. Of course this small-l liberal pipe dream is completely anathema to modern neoliberal hyper capitalism; such education is only for the very rich.

Comment Re: Suggests abiogenesis is easy (Score 1) 104

> While late filtering from natural causes is possible it looks unlikely since natural disasters on that scale just aren't that common.

It is definitely too soon to draw this conclusion, because we have only just entered our first global scale civilization. And we are testing the global humanity carrying capacity.

Comment Re: Contract with FIFA? (Score 1) 44

The fancy contract word is privity. If this injunction is meant to be based on contract law, it fails in any functioning system of jurisprudence. I suspect it rests in dmca and copyright law, though, which prohibits infringement of protected rights. The question remains what duty or liability ispâ(TM)s have in this situation.

Of course, whether the US judicial branch is behaving rationally consistent with existing law or any concept of democratic authority is open for debate.

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