I like the idea of working on waste. But what they are doing is finding money to allow the tax cuts for their constituents to happen. Their constituents are not you or me. We are the people they are getting the money from. If there was fraud? there were be arrests and jail and fines. There is none of that happening. Why? Because they are not getting rid of fraud. They’re getting rid of programs that benefit people they need to get money from to give to their people.

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a) In this particular case, the code was a very simple loop. The lawyers depended on the Judge being ignorant of code to win an IP ruling which claimed Google copied code from Oracle to make Android. and it was PRECISELY THE SAME CODE, letter by letter. But the Judge ,who was a QuickBASIC programmer hobbiest since the 1980s, writing some sophisticated stuff for fun, thought that code seemed pretty simple. So he looked at a JAVA book over the weekend, translated it into QuickBASIC and could see that all it did was validation of input. Big deal. That’s stuff high schoolers learn and there’s not much variety in how to do it in code. So for all the hub-bub, that’s all it was. The Judge is embarrassed whenever it comes up because he knows it wasn’t any big deal. b) None of my nieces and nes were going into programming. It was just hobby kid stuff. I didn’t encourage any of them to become programmers because it’s a full field with enough people in it. But I believe programming is great to have as a hobby. I’ve both made money with it and also done it as a hobby and there’s value in being able to debug code sometimes.

a) In this particular
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I didn’t see it as much of a smear. I mean, I’ve never liked the guy, from way back when he was saying “AI WAS GONNA TAKE US OVER” in 2014. The dude’s 6 months older than me and I’ve always found him to be that part of my classmate age that I kind of shook my head at, money or not. Should I modify my opinion of him now that he’s where he is now, whatever that is called properly?

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Europe has been supplying equipment and money the whole times at rates HIGHER THAN the USA has. The idea that “they weren’t paying their share” is just a basic media lie, easily verified. Trump’s been saying that since 1987 and took out a full page ad in the NYT after being courted for 4 months by Russian oligarches back and forth where he declared that NATO needs to be abolished. Same old Trump song. Nothing new with him.

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oh no no no, the trolley problem is: “The trolley problem is a thought experiment that explores whether it’s morally acceptable to sacrifice one person to save more” We are RARELY in the position of choosing to sacrifice ONE LIFE for MANY. But the WEALTHY DO have that power generally and money is usually chosen over people. I can’t see why that’s controversial. But I understand why we had a debate here. We were thinking of entirely different things with the cartoon.

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