towaway1138

This sort of moral panic should be slapped down hard. The 1890s are over, and no, we don't need to protect our womenfolk from perverts who went to med school hoping for free gropes, no matter what races are involved.

It's time to take a deep breath and grow up.

I bought this when it came out, but thought it was horrible. The only good bit was the preface by one of the Unix authors (Ritchie?). The rest just seemed like whining by people that didn't really get the Unix philosophy.

Probably largely random. But beyond that, they sound like the diametric opposite of upstanding and boring citizens, so not really that surprising?

This doesn't seem particularly unreasonable. This is a poor method of funding education, and rife with all sorts of potential for abuse. Not to mention that generally we want the poor kids in the district to be funded as well as the rich kids, and this mechanism will work against that.

From my perspective, news has become far more angry and vicious in the last couple of years. Writers who in the past were more or less kindly and factual (if sometimes a bit goofy) have started putting out really hateful stuff. It's shocking and, yes, depressing.

I'm aware of these, and to a degree suffer from them directly--I just don't think "left to die" is an appropriate description. Furthermore, the group most affected by these issues, aging white males, are also the group AOC stands most ready to throw under the bus. That is, I think she's a hypocrite on this subject.

In any case, hypocrites come and go, but these problems are indeed very important and in need of some organized solutions. Our "oppressive" traditions and social structures have been cast aside, and many jobs have been outsourced to elsewhere. I'm watching the twenty-somethings around me try to deal with this wonderful new society, and it's very sad.

In my work, I like to get the new systems working before deleting the old ones...

Shockingly ignorant, as usual.

No one in our society is "left to die" because they don't have a job.

Went on a job-hunting trip there a couple of years ago. Certainly many nice things about it. But after considering its problems, and the local toxic politics that appear to stand in the way of progress towards solutions, we nope'd out.

My alternative is to think carefully before hitting return. As a bonus, this works for other commands, too.

Also, '\rm', as many distributions insist on aliasing 'rm' by default.

You're arguing for limiting speech. I'm arguing against.

> the material changes this rise in anti-intellectual, conspiracy minded, anti-science free speech crusaders are attempting to cause

You lost me here, as in my experience, such activity has been in significant decline over my lifetime. We're actually living in a golden age where science and reason are ascendant.

Using this as a pretext for silencing people that don't agree with us seems particularly pernicious.

Some believe in the three laws. Downvoters, not so much. :-/

Note that the laws of thermodynamics only specify the minimum number of calories you must consume (i.e., to not lose weight, or to not die).

There is no real maximum to the amount of calories your body can waste (as heat or by excretion). Nor is there any law saying that we're all equally efficient (or even close).

So? Yes, they will continue organic growth in NYC, like everywhere else.

The HQ plan would have been a massive jump and very likely an increased growth rate thereafter. That won't happen now.