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> So, please forgive us our gallows humor about this.

Apologies for my pedantry, but dreaming about harming people is actually pretty much the opposite of gallows humour. A more appropriate phrase might be "power fantasy."

It's okay for you to be wrong about something.

It's unclear to me whether you want "to write a program" or to "get the maximum out of Haskell". Those are two very different goals.

But first, how about we let capital usurp the political system for its own ends? That seems like a reasonable compromise to me.

I, too, feel that perfectly uniform brace positioning is one of the critical technical challenges facing any new language today. There is no longer any excuse to get such an important and fundamental advance wrong.

By that standard, geometric population growth is killing people.

I agree with you entirely and unreservedly. The scare quotes in my comment were to poke fun at the idea that a person who holds a set of racist opinions is somehow not a racist.

I do maintain that it is, in some sense, a "reasonable" position for a racist to be more offended by incivility than by racism. Not ideal, or even good, but certainly understandable.

To be fair, that's a reasonable position for a person who's "not really racist, but holds opinions that they concede certainly sound racist when said out loud".

Or row.

I feel like I'm missing something terribly obvious, but...

How does "it is getting harder and slower to move large files over the net" lead to the conclusion "therefore we should store all our large files on the net and retrieve them whenever we want, rather than keep them on local media with negligible latency and huge storage space"?

Should a Japanese octogenarian whose parents had the poor taste to spell their child's name with a character that would not make it into Unicode expect the same problem?

I look forward to being convinced that housing and car manufacturing are more stable and resilient than services.

Given that the entire website this article lives on is about roguelikes, and the author is also the developer of a roguelike (Unangband), I imagine he is likely aware of the history of randomly generated levels.

Is it normal business practice to use ultimatums instead of negotiation?

I agree that, when we are talking about high-level languages, I prefer ones that will transparently convert integers to bignum when required. I'm just replying to the contention that (paraphrased) "this is a bug in PHP's handling of floating point numbers".