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Comment · 6 years ago
I wanted to like Reason, but it is now clearly a dead end. Its torn identity between JS and OCaml has killed the language.
Comment · 6 years ago
Imagine believing this
Comment · 6 years ago
Because it lowers the housing stock in urban areas. Wealthy travellers will pay more for accommodations than the local market, so apartments become airbnbs and investors gobble up condos and housing which they turn into short term rentals. The scarcity pushes up the housing prices, but it never balances out because the locals can never make enough to compete with wealthy travellers and are forced farther from the city. The end result is a hollowed out city core.
Comment · 6 years ago
Airbnb was supposed to be a platform for sharing your house, not starting your own distributed hotel.
Comment · 6 years ago
Probably
Comment · 6 years ago
The corporate structure institutionalizes immorality, it cannot be avoided. By law shareholder profits come first, everything else is secondary to that goal.
Comment · 6 years ago
The person filing the paperwork still isn’t necessarily the one who made the call. In fact, it usually isn’t; they are just the ones whose responsibility it is to carry it out, or else their head is on the block.
Comment · 6 years ago
It is my experience that everyone who self identifies as a republican or democrat is brainwashed at this point. The worst offenders are those who are so delusional that they mock anyone who avoids political discourse or abstains from voting. They are so high on political fumes that they can’t imagine that there are things more important than our cancerous political process.
Comment · 6 years ago
Investment is gambling, smarts are winning.
Comment · 6 years ago
can we get compile time constant variables? something cleaner than enums and defines
Comment · 6 years ago
That excludes a huge number of students who will have never had the experience to try programming before university.

I never did any programming before my first year, I was planning on going into economics. But then I took an elective in CS and it became my major. I wasn’t alone either, most of the students were not programmers previously.

Comment · 6 years ago
This is only true if your applications are mostly high level glue.
Comment · 6 years ago
But it is. A good compiler could unroll my loop and rewrite it with the appropriate vector ops. But that isn’t possible with just python right now.
Comment · 6 years ago
Damn you’re edgy

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