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Comment As the traditional saying goes (Score 5, Funny) 156

C++: You accidentally create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical care is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying "that's me, over there."

(cribbed from https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-users.york.ac.uk%2F~ss44%2Fjoke%2Ffoot.htm, but widely circulated in the 90s)

Comment So it'll be smuggling from now on then. (Score 1) 261

If it's not ramping up already, it seems pretty inevitable that businesses will need to turn to smuggled goods to stay competitive once they suspect (or know) others are doing it. While that will mean government revenues from the imports will largely evaporate, at least it'll mean Trump can say prices haven't gone up. But bribery, corruption, and related things like turf wars will likely explode.

Comment Re:Google the recidivist monopolist :o (Score 2, Interesting) 41

No one was forced to use Internet Explorer, except when they wanted to browse the Internet after bundled IE with Windows and drove Netscape out of business.

No one was forced to install Windows, except when they wanted to use a PC and Microsoft was threatening PC OEMs that provided alternatives.

No one was forced to buy a telephone line from the Bell system, so long as they didn't mind not having a telephone in the United States.

No one was forced to lease an IBM punchcard tabulating machine, except when IBM held all the patents and refused to sell their equipment at reasonable prices.

No one was forced to buy oil from Standard, except when they wanted to heat their homes after SO bought up all the competition.

This story is about Google monopolizing the advertising industry, not search, you absolute bingus.

Comment Re:Not really a new feature in Firefox (Score 1) 47

Ah, dear, sweet Panorama... gone before your time! In the garden of youth, you were known as TabCandy, and you were a delight upon mine eyes, and saviour of many a Mac user, whom you liberated from the depths of taskbarless window management ignorance, up, up, to the dizzy heights of spatial window management! How much duller and greyer the world has been since you last languidly cached all those many tab thumbnails in your round-corner'd groupings... Were it only possible to summon you forth once more, with Ctrl-Shift-T, as in the age of your glories!

But seriously, it was a casualty of its own implementation. It was an enormous memory sink written in jQuery, at a time when Firefox was haemorrhaging users to Chrome because of its performance. Many of the browser APIs it depended on were also purged.

Comment Re:Diversity is Key (Score 2) 42

The [1952 Immigration and Nationality Act] also has an exemption that prohibits an alien's removal "because of the alien's past, current, or expected beliefs, statements, or associations, if such beliefs, statements, or associations would be lawful within the United States." But the law allows the government to proceed with a deportation if the Secretary of State "personally determines that the alien's admission would compromise a compelling United States foreign policy interest."

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fconstitutioncenter.org...

Does the INA only apply to people who are attempting to immigrate to the US (e.g. green card holders) or does it apply to visa holders as well? The citation I was trying to find said student visa holders were also covered. The fact that Marco Rubio is personally signing all of the visa revocations is a very strong indication that the law does cover them.

From the Wikipedia page on Bouarfa v. Mayorkas:

revocation of an approved visa petition under s1155 based on a sham-marriage determination by the Secretary of Homeland Security is the kind of discretionary decision that falls within the purview of 8 U.S.C. s1252(a)(2)(B)(ii), which strips federal courts of jurisdiction to review certain actions 'in the discretion of' the agency."

That's not a blank check. I don't know what's in the cited section, but I doubt 'wrote an op-ed' is one of the 'certain actions'.

If I do find more information, I'll be sure to not let you know, since you asked so nicely.

Comment Re:No one wants to admit overpopulation causes thi (Score 1) 244

This is an interesting paper on BTL house prices in particular:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bankofengland.co.u...

There's a pretty depressing diagram illustrating the relationship BTL has on the wider economy in "6: How do pressures on the BTL sector matter for financial stability?" that shows pretty much any attempt to use policy to lower prices will amplify economic downturns. We're hooked on housing, essentially.

Comment Re:So it doesn't make sense to put divacup in ass (Score 4, Insightful) 19

Sure thing, AAANUS SNIFFER. It goes a little like this:

  1. Step 1: Fire workers.
  2. Step 2: Pay out wages of fired workers as executive bonuses.
  3. Step 3: Tell remaining employees to make up for the lost productivity or they're fired too.
  4. Step 4: Tell investors everything is going great!

Hope that cleared things up for you.

Comment Re:Some people follow fashion (Score 4, Informative) 137

Rust is now 13 years old. When Linus first released the Linux kernel in 1991, the C programming language was 19 years old, and Unix V7 had only been out for 12 years.

There are more than a dozen kernels written entirely in Rust. The claim that Rust is immature is pure propaganda.

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