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I, and I suspect many other people here, prefer to live in countries where there are no neighbourhood associations that can dictate the look of your house, what colour of paint you must use, etc.

> Understanding never was the goal, results were.

Understanding is the goal, both at an individual level and at a societal level. If no one can understand it, no one can teach it and it can't be used to progress.

> Python is quickly turning into a crowded keyword junkyard

* Javascript (ECMAScript) has 63 keywords. * Rust has 50 keywords. * Java has 51 keywords + 17 contextually reserved words, for a total of 68. * Python has now 36 keywords + 4 'soft' keywords, for a total of 40. * Go has 25 keywords.

> The workers were breaking the laws, ...

How sure are we of that? Did we really get this information from trustworthy sources?

I accept your suffering if you choose so. If I knew you personally, I would even do all I could to help and comfort you. However, I cannot condone you imposing suffering on others in the name of YOUR religion.

It is not that someone else shares YOUR birthday: it is that two people (among those 23) will have the same birthday.

He did mention he lives in France ...

If I remember correctly, unlike the standard Python interpreter, ptpython does not support the replacement of sys.excepthook by a custom one. I know that I look at seeing if I could have it support friendly-traceback but couldn't.

If they are not located in the US, why would they?

In my experience (in a different field), it is common for researchers to acknowledge the source of their funding. In particular, researchers are keen to acknowledge funding from government grants, as this is perceived to be helpful in applying for future research grants.

I glanced through the paper and I could not find any mention indicating who funded that study.

I'm also very sceptical of single studies that support the status quo for very large industries -- even more so when there is no indication of who funded the study.

This is simply not true.

Tooling is a single screwdriver. There is no "unused bits" clutter, and no need to pay someone to replace a part.

> How bad could it be?

It could suggest that someone vulnerable commit suicide and have that user do it.

No.

"Dark" matter refers to something that does not interact at all with photons - not that it scatters too little light.