nhooyr

> Private medical care is in most circumstances illegal in Canada and they have large enough wait lists that people are dying in large numbers waiting for medical care. Medical tourism to Canada is a non-starter for Yanks.

Can you cite a source for people dying in "large" numbers waiting for medical care in Canada?

> It’s correlation all the way down. We should strive for truth but know that we will never achieve any.

No, so far that too is just a correlation.

We don't know what's all the way down, absolutely no clue.

> Their normal plan is to steal keys by compromising users and computers. This is in contrast to the normal "hack" that works by finding and exploiting bugs in code.

That's the primary way hacks are conducted by most hackers. Hackers are primarily social engineers, not technical. Technical hackers are extremely rare regardless of nationality.

Nope, Canada is also a holdout :(

He's not wrong. Certainly when it comes to the full scope of being a programmer, Linux and BSD are your only real options. You can't easily add a new filesystem or screw with the kernel on macOS/windows without having to buy hundreds of dollars worth of their books and attend conferences.

There isn't really any good detailed up to date documentation online about either. The docs for linux/bsd aren't perfect either but at least there you can always fall back on the source. That makes a massive difference.

For example, one of the reasons I switched from Java to Go back in the day is that I could actually read the source code of the APIs I was using. So I could fully understand the standard library whereas in Java it was all obfuscated bytecode. I'm not sure if the situation has changed with OpenJDK but my point stands, an open core system is far superior platform for learning.

An explanation of how this works and what makes it novel would be nice. I'm not familiar enough to understand how this is better than Cgo.

> it's pretty old tech that is very inefficient.

There is nothing about Rust or C++ that make them faster than C.

In what way are the root servers inefficient?

What static analysis tools are you referring to for C?

What do you mean US-style? As far as I'm aware, such debate clubs exist all throughout the world. The most famous of which are probably the Cambridge Union and the Oxford Union both in the UK.

Absolutely agreed. I see so much bullcrap being peddled by people on hackernews and reddit it's absolutely maddening. People hide behind having a source like it's an immovable shield that protects them against having to perform their own critical thinking.

> Why wouldn't you post something just because you won't make a bunch of money off of it?

Why does anyone do anything? There needs to be an incentive.

At least in BC, EDLs have been phased out :(