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That is an interesting thought; thanks for pointing it out. I'll be a little clearer and use a specific example: gun control. We have a right to bear arms, but at this point it is such a huge par…

To be clear, I didn't mean to accuse you of close-mindedness - I was referring to this behavior in general. Still, isn't completely irrelevant what the "old" internet thought? How …

I respect what you're saying and the contrasting views here are good. At the same time, what you're saying reminds me a ton of the ultra (politically) conservative Americans who freak out ov…

When the Messaging app first came out, I installed it. But I also hated how intrusive the app is. I uninstalled it and switched to just using the web interface. Unfortunately, typing messages in the w…

That page says there are a number of features they aren't interested in supporting. Is there an actual list somewhere? I don't want to start using this then discover things I wanted to use j…

Unless I'm mistaken and in light of the fact that infrastructure is mostly publicly funded, this is pretty much (true but) completely irrelevant. Smaller countries also often depend on and have a…

I don't know a lot about C or about Lisp, but I do know that this isn't the first compile-to-C Lisp. So why not use one of the ones that already exist instead of starting from scratch? And t…

Thanks for the response. I really don't know much about the UK so I appreciate all those examples! However, even if WW2 is a red herring, I don't think you can compare Europe and the US to e…

That is some good perspective. I am most familiar (whatever that means) with the US and Asia; I should have stuck to the two. In any case, the fact remains that the US has a huge handicap due to the s…

Wow, this is awesome! I can't believe I haven't seen this. Thanks for pointing it out.

I think I agree with you on most of this, but I completely disagree with your first sentence. The US is one of the oldest current stable governments. All of the other major countries today got to comp…

Yahoo is "focusing on its most successful products — including its search engine". I don't understand this. Isn't their search engine just Bing?

This is the second link on the front page. This link is on the www subdomain though which is how it must have gotten past the filter. I guess HN doesn't (yet) look for dupes across subdomains? Wo…

Judging by the site and the readme, it makes sense to assume that English is not the author's native language... It would make more sense to judge by the quality of the universal language there (…

Thanks!

Anything in particular you could point out?

I had trouble finding the specific generation you are referring to, do you have a link?

Thanks for that, should have read a little further.

I'm having trouble finding information on the language they are talking about. It doesn't seem like the language (COGENT) is presented in this paper, just a compiler for language. Is there a…