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The article seems to me just a regular criticism, not her saying she could do better?

Counterpoint to your view on critics. A discerning audience is equally as important to a thriving culture as artists. If critics just clap their hands whenever someone tries to make something, granting that making a bad work of art is often just as difficult as making a good one, we get junk. I don't see why the perspective of the maker is relevant at all.

“You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.” - Pauline Kael

Where did anyone say a global ban or even national? I personally do not see it as "an incredible economic opportunity," I see it as a massive gamble that won't bear fruit, but that's beside the point. If localities want to bet on them fine, they can have them like I originally said.

"totalitarian" for a democratically elected representative government to ban something? How? If other counties or states want them fine, godspeed, take them. We'll be just fine without them.

- Lifetime resident of what might as well be called AWS us-east-1, Virginia now.

I'd say Farsi is too. I'm finding it easier than Spanish much to my surprise.

"people, universally, want the best product available"

Maybe I'm not a person, but I almost always pick one of the cheaper if not cheapest option. Rarely, if ever, do I care enough to get the best of anything...

No, this guy (the writer of the article) has no idea what he’s talking about. I say this as someone isn’t even on the left.

He sets a false dichotomy to protect himself from criticism. Zoning/building codes being too strict and monopolies existing in that market aren’t incompatible.

It’s worth noting that there’s a lot of money behind this abundance movement or whatever, so that’s something to take into account when reading this stuff.

RStudio is still a web app. It's GWT with QtWebEngine whereas this is Electron. Not too different.

You should read a bit more beyond Wikipedia. It’s a far, far more complicated and interesting story than you’re portraying it to be.

The Catholic Church actually initially funded Copernicus and was interested in his findings, but this was the reformation and counter-reformation, so that context is extremely important as to why their stance changed.

What they did to Giordano Bruno, on the other hand, is a massive stain on the church.

Yup

He/she isn't used to it. Any R, Elixir, or F# developer would be right at home with this syntax.

Any chance you remember the name of the SQLite course?

Why? The first 4 government functions he dismantled or took over are CFPB, NLRB, USAID, and Treasury. Weakening, removing, or taking control of any/all of those directly benefit him.

Either way, it doesn't matter what his motives are. He's not Congress.

Pretty much everything you said here doesn't align with history. And if anything, Catholics are more inclined to agree that the Bible is a product of human writing and translation because they don't agree with the Protestant doctrine of Sola scriptura. Also, Catholics consider the Orthodox church to be in communion with Rome - they don't consider it a different religion and aren't opposed to the Bible being translated into vernacular languages. No idea where that came from.

Bun too