Kroem3r's comments

Well, it was until you pulled back the curtain.

if Ukraine had retained the nuclear weapons, they would have been the Russian weapons, and Ukraine would not have been flirting with the EU/NATO sphere, etc ... your implication is tempting, but does not include all the story

You can imagine the pretty natural go-go-stop behavior. "Good for prestige: go for it." versus "Going to have Mossad and cruise missiles all over the place; shut it down!" versus "Bring it on you !@#~!!!~!ers!" versus "We are entitled to do this under the various treaties; opposition will highlight the hypocrisy in the geopolitic" versus "Um, duh?"

The failure of Democracy to scale.

More specifically, the failure of people who would have common cause within some topic to actually come together over that cause and effect a change. Instead, people seemingly fall victim to 'wedge issues', reactionary prejudices, and etc.

well, and also 6 year olds. Every now and then, while talking to a 6 year old, I try to imagine what it might be like to be forensically interviewing one. Very tricky and very easy to leave the result of such an interview open to post hoc criticism.

Interesting, but it does not settle the question as to whether the US justice system is inconsistent based on the nationality of the corporation. This list might carry some weight if it discussed the fact that some of these are settlements, and how did these compare to the size of the infraction.

Given that there is a serious and ongoing discussion about the lack of criminal proceedings, but that there are other kinds of very much lesser processes, it is legitimate to be concerned that financial institutions, and their employees and directors, are getting off too lightly. Then, in light of successful prosecutions against foreign corporations, the original question is legitimate.

Actually, the pattern of national bias is well established from well before the last great meltdown. And given that, these foreign prosecutions make one wonder why there have been so few against US banks.

The Great Tranformation by Karl Polanyi, wikibooks.org/wiki/An_Awk_Primer, and just finished Anne of Green Gables

That was the point that I stopped reading. I started out looking forward to the map regarding "thinking" but it seemed a foregone conclusion.

What did you make of the discussion toward the end of the article, where it discusses ensuing lightening of the jaw bone?

Yep. Nope. You've outed yourself in an unfortunate way. Everyone wants to do business in the US and everyone is prepared to jump through the hoops to do that business. US regulation accomplishes a bunch of things, including adding friction to non-US companies doing business in the US.

It's a fine example. Are you saying that 3 case statements is too many?

Why optimize the code to support cases that don't actually exist yet?

Or even better, why optimize the code in ignorance to how it will need to be optimized in 2 years?

Funny you should say that, that's my family motto: "Qui stupidi sunt, ut strenuus me".

That he thinks it is ok to cut through residential neighbourhoods because the freeway is backed up is more than stupid, really. It is dangerous and unfair. I was going to say that, given the apologetics around this strategy, that he's being a little tongue-in-cheek. But when he opened with "the really painful part of being stuck in traffic is not, really, the actual amount of time that it takes to get from Point A to Point B" it was pretty clear that we were going to be looking for wisdom and intelligence from other sources.

Hard to say. Some places need 3 x 1 hr to figure out if a person has the chops. Other places can just figure it out. IMHO, it does seem unnecessary and could point to the area of difficulty, but some places are just goofy that way. For sure the bottom line is: Use the experience to improve yourself, shake off the negativity and move on.

Yep. But it's not. The difference is that utilities are especially regulated because they have monopolistic operations. Part of the quid pro quo for going forward with the monopoly is that they have to be open to buying power back from other producers. I don't have the Oklahoma legislation here, but given the available facts, I'm going to bet that's the case. In other words, this taxation isn't a matter of treating residential power generation like any other business, it's about the utility using the legislators to claw back a commitment they now regret making.

This is the one thing that I will not forgive MS for. They bought the lead guy from Borland rather than compete against the product. I guess it's all fair in business, but it was a gutless defense of VB - an admission, actually - that VB wasn't up to the competition.

The summary for me is that Delphi was more productive and way better designed than VB with the performance of C. I never understood why it didn't have a broader following. My guess is that developers enjoyed the challenge of C/C++, call it an aesthetic judgement.

Ya, good call. It is a super interesting fallacy that people interested in disassembling dysfunctional status quo models should be good at calling-out. Something like a "post hoc rationalization".

For me, another use case is 'all the fantastic things that have been invented because of war'.

I'm calling it: TOD, 12:20 AM PDT

REUTERS - In the small hours of the morning Irony coughed up a lung and died. It had been on life-support for nearly a decade when a seemingly innocent ...

Pff. If 'molten salt' reactors are an inch closer in 10 years, I will eat my hat. The idea is only slightly more appealing than having the reactor fly around under it's own power.

What makes you think The Economist is interested in probing the nerdosphere? Would Tesla, Apple, etc., be more effective? For sure, the '... adoption is 10 years away' thing is funny. Makes me reminisce for Popular Science.

If I were to guess; they are advertising where their technological sympathies lie. It is more about managing their brand than probing an audience.

search and replace as the last launch step

Kind of sad, really, because it once had some useful meaning - like 15 years ago. And we hardly need another synonym for "clueless douchebag".

I have to admire the trajectory of the word's decline. It joins the ranks of "conservative", "liberal", and even "neoliberal".