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Comment · 2 years ago
As usual with tech giants, the burden of playing whack-a-mole with the perpetrators is left to the victims, while the company profits.
Comment · 3 years ago
You forget that √x always has 2 solutions: 1 positive and 1 negative.
Comment · 3 years ago
I wonder how it would work before Javascript.
Comment · 3 years ago
Nice, but I wish they opted for an RSS feed instead.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah. It's basically a God hypothesis for geeks.
Comment · 4 years ago
If this forum were to live up to its name, you would be laughed out of here after that comment.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah, it needs Javascript to display text. No thanks, bye.
Comment · 4 years ago
Just like who knows how many bits of false information. Which then get copied, pasted and repeated across the web and the world.

I've randomly found several, and I'm just one person.

Comment · 5 years ago
At this point, I can't help thinking it created more problems than it solved.
Comment · 5 years ago
> 2. Bad people steal good thing.

2. Good people sell good thing to bad people.

Comment · 5 years ago
At point #3, I think you meant "then a→c".
Comment · 5 years ago
The syntax of those defines sure looks weird. In what dialect does the name of the function being defined appear as the CAR of a list, followed by the parameters?
Comment · 5 years ago
Very interesting! Maybe preprocessors really are the way to go for PHP, even if it were just for ironing out its inconsistencies (not to mention implementing a whole new language on top of it, as in this case).

But why those square brackets for argument lists? That seems unnecessary.

Comment · 5 years ago
My solution: only read negative reviews. They're much more telling. As a bonus, they'll often kill impulse purchases, saving me money.
Comment · 5 years ago
>an atheist insists there must not be.

Wrong... Only so-called "strong atheism" is active belief in gods' non-existence. Regular (unqualified) atheism is lack of belief in gods' existence.

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