snogglethorpe

Using a reasonable OS (Linux etc), 4GB is absolutely fine for browsing and basic tasks, and indeed is often fine for development and other more-than-basic tasks as well, depending on how exactly you work (Emacs/Vim instead of an IDE, for instance).

Is 4GB considered too little under Windows these days?

This particular "viewpoint" is widely known, period, because there's no shortage of douchebros that freely advocate it, and more to the point, there's nothing to be gained from "suppressing" it.

Rather, more publicity of exactly this sort, is desirable, to make it clear that this type of thing is (1) nonsensical, and (2) (more importantly from fire-your-ass-from-google point of view), unacceptable.

That, presumably, is one reason supply is restricted ("fixed"), along with other restrictive laws, like height or density limits, forced parking minimums, etc.

Another contributor is poor transportation infrastructure, which limits peoples' flexibility, creating more pressure on housing near train lines and stations, etc.

The notable thing about "Irish" bars, I think, is that there are so many of them in non-Irish places, compared to other types of "nation-branded drinking establishment."

Not being sarcastic, I just didn't watch the video.

I was wondering if it was basically the same thing with nice animations...

Is this just the contents of the video in text form?

In any case, thanks! I don't need to watch the video now, as you've very clearly explained it in only four lines of text!

Mild snarkiness aside, is the quote really inaccurate?

"Getting used to" [something] has a pejorative sense, but it also just means "becoming familiar with," and really understanding something is, in a way, simply being so familiar with it that reasoning about it is second nature... at some point, things just sort of start to make sense...

The education correlation is also supported actual voting results, by seeing how voting results correlated with education levels in each voting region.

So it doesn't seem to be just an artifact of polling behavior.

I suspect another reason that politicians are so eager to stomp on H1B workers is because they're an easy target: most people don't care, and the H1B workers themselves can't vote, so pandering to anti-foreigner hysteria is a good bet for a politician...

I'm sure there are some tech workers who support Trump, but education seems to be one of the best predictors for who voted against Trump, and tech workers are probably on average better educated than the general populace...

Also, AFAIA, the addictiveness of alcohol varies a lot amongst the population, whereas pretty much everybody who smokes is addicted.

This means that using alcohol like you mention, as an occasional social lubricant, is a very viable strategy for many people. Once somebody starts smoking though, most of them can't just stop at will, they're probably doomed to spending all their breaks standing outside in the carpark, every day...

The most obvious difference is that alcohol isn't directly harmful to other people, whereas smoking is...

This attribute basically makes it very difficult for people to adopt a "well it's their choice, I'll let them dig their own grave" attitude in regard to smoking.

Why should it matter how they use the land?

If they want to use it purely to irritate Zuckerberg, that's their business.

> The trouble with @Wikileaks obsessively and indiscriminately tweeting anti-Hillary leaks

It also reduces peoples' trust in Wikileaks and the veracity of the information they release.

Wikileaks' reputation as a (mostly) "impartial" actor was one of their greatest assets, and they seem to be throwing that away simply to sate Assange's desire for revenge...