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That's what I was thinking... Why can't we solve this with non-repudiation crypto that is already available?

I have mixed feelings about the various arguments I see raised in the comments. It seems crazy to me to insist that efficiency and productivity gains via technology have, as their proper goal, a world in which none of that matters. Freeing up time in this way benefits us as individuals as well. Just staying alive and entertaining ourselves requires goal-directed behavior. I like not having to spend hours cooking food daily on an open fire.

Your argument about keyboards struck me in just this way - it's a mistake to assume that we should stick with the status quo and have machines adapt to us. After all, writing on paper (or with a digital stylus) is just another iteration of improving the technology. Nobody wants to pound symbols into stone with a chisel, for example.

I can type much faster than I can write cursively and it would be incredibly painful to revert to such writing. Natural language speech input can improve a lot of things vs typing, but I think writing code - for as long as it lasts - would be tricky to implement well using our voices.

One weak advantage is panspermia allows you to avoid the question.

That seems to be an odd way of looking at it, IMO. Most of the time, the entire point of building an API is to present consistent functionality to any consumer, not only ones under your control. Also, a well-behaved API is versioned so as to allow evolution of the API without breaking existing clients who can upgrade to new versions as they are able.

Are there significant risks from running virtualization locally like this? If so, can you provide any links or elaborate a bit so I can follow up? Most of what I've seen on such vulnerabilities refer to server infrastructure.

Seems like that would require an understanding of language that far exceeds the current state of the art. And much of the time logic doesn't even apply because the text is incoherent.

The things you cite as missing in C# can be found in F# on .NET Core. Have you ever tried it? I find it hard to stomach C# after delving deeply into F#, and you still get to use Dapper! Swagger though... not sure if anyone ever got that working well with Giraffe or any other more functional web framework. When I say "working" I mean automatically generating the Swagger docs for you.

I'm genuinely curious if there are black or African American programmers who actually use git who are offended by the term. Speaking for myself (white programmer) it just seems to be an obvious use of the adjective form of the word as either the principal branch (like master bath) or the branch from which other branches are copied (as in the initial, pristine version). If there are such comments I haven't come across them yet.

There are several comments by other white people who see this as a highly commendable act. Does anyone actually subject to racism see this move as a positive step that addresses a real problem?

This made me laugh out loud. Early this afternoon I walked by a local church on the way to do some shopping and there was a group of 8 or 9 people kneeling in front of it praying. They were holding signs with various slogans, one of which said exactly that: Churches are vital business.

I should mention this is a Catholic church that serves the Eucharist during every mass where multiple people hand out wafers to eat, using their bare hands. [edit: grammar and additions]

I hardly know where to start with this. Parachutes are not a cliche example of anything other than engineered products that are the result of well understood principles of physics, knowledge which was hardly arrived at by magical intuition. And medicine lags far far behind in the maturity of the science (my understanding as a layman).

And your final example of showing up in scientifically illiterate society wielding a miracle drug and declaring that they need no evidence of its efficacy, ignoring the fact that such evidence was all on you prior to arriving there? Sorry, I don't see how this is productive.

Again, this is the very thing that needs to be shown. You're simply repeating the same mistake.

The post I was responding to really had no _point_, per se. It merely asserted that it's ridiculous to require such experiments because... miracle drug!

It's simply a problem of what is considered to be evidence in the scientific community. If everyone "got cured by a miracle drug", that implies you already have the compelling evidence in hand that the drug, in fact, is a cure. This is an example of begging the question.

What... what?! You think that

| ...those people recorded while spreading their spit all over a train cart.

are simply acting in ignorance because they have no idea how to behave?

A very high percentage choose to buy a house or car, or have children as part of their life planning when things look fairly stable. When you grow up and have adult responsibilities, the youthful feeling of invulnerability starts to fade.