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No matter what is your stance. It is always important to listen to both sides, and exercise your critical thinking.

RT's YouTube channel has been blocked in my country just today. I thought the west was all about freedom? (Not that I believe that, especially as they torture Julian Assange and commit horrible atrocities against Palestinians)

> Languages that focus on "easy to write" are a trap

Reminds me of that time when my company abused Scala Implicits, possible because one of it's libraries for mapping scala to relational database had examples of it.

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Regarding re-usability. Does that imply well defined interfaces and private scopes? Does that eventually lead us to Pure functions? Afaik, pure func has maybe the highest ease/simplicity for reuse. Happy to be hear your thoughts.

Libya got destroyed when they wanted gold for oil. At least China has established yuan for oil for their trade with Russia.

> I am always surprised at how long we have kept this advantage.

With the amount spent with US Military (more than all the next 9 countries combined), not surprised. Military bases everywhere, wars everywhere etc.

We should've listen to RMS about Free Software huh?

"dropping taxes for the biggest companies and lowering spending on infrastructure and public works" = repulsive

"green tech investment and high tech public transport systems" = actually helps the people

Start by fixing misinformation about what is the PRC and the "democractic" US.

Ain't government is comprised of corporate owners? President. Then there's lobbying/bribing. Create/participate in wars. Sell weapons to the human rights respecting Saudi. And when corporations die, they take the people's money.

That's beyond giving me a choice. Lols.

You do know that Hong Kong was really part of China right? It was taken by the British Empire in 1842 by destroying China in the First Opium War. When the British finally gave it back to China in 1997, a lot of the non-chinese moved out of HK.

What I'm trying to emphasize is that "Hong Kongers" and Jackie Chan are Chinese.

Yeah, time to get Julian Assange and Snowden back to America (gitmo)! The land of the free (for non-natives)!

Tell that to the millions who choose to be born in the slums. Then there is also the fact that we are not equally the same upon birth. Everyone has different traits. I suspect that when you really weigh in the factors, a lot of the result we get is caused by a lot simply being at the right time in the right place.

Ask again when you have kids and discovered that there is soooo much more to life than being a cog 99% of your life.

Science is hard. Superstition is fast and might save your job, at least for awhile.

Coupling is not bad in itself. Depends on what you want to achieve. There's likely always a trade-off.

There's this course in pluralsight that talks about two orgs that promote scrum. The other one seems to be giving out the wrong ideas. I think it's this one (copied from wikipedia):

    In 2002, Schwaber with others founded the Scrum 
    Alliance[18] and set up the Certified Scrum accreditation 
    series. Schwaber left the Scrum Alliance in late 2009 and 
    founded Scrum.org which oversees the parallel Professional 
    Scrum accreditation series.[19]

I think it was Scrum Alliance that's giving out ideas like Burndown chart is required in scrum.

Nah, it was probably the 'meetup god' that caused it.