You're right, though I think the unappreciated difficulty will be getting people to take it. I think it might be one of those things where people say they're willing to take it because they don't want to say otherwise, but may not actually go and get it. If the risks are primarily in the old and at-risk and the young and healthy are the ones who are supposed to be vaccinated, those incentives just don't align.
There is a whole subset of memes focused on the "political compass", which maps one's position from liberal to conservative and from authoritarian to libertarian. Right-wing authoritarian is where people like nazis are typically placed; left-wing libertarian is where progressives or green party type people are typically placed. The joke is that some Europeans will say, "We should treat everyone equally; hon hon, look at silly American being racist!" then go treat gypsies poorly (moving from bottom-left to top-right).
I believe you're right, but you must realize that your statement is similar to that some communists make: "real communism/capitalism/whateverism has never been tried yet," i.e. the No True Scotsman fallacy. The fair question to be asked is, "How can we restrict the state to prevent bastardizing capitalism and falling prey to corruption?" Capitalism seems to be much more resilient to it than communism, but we need to figure out how to further strengthen the state against this, because it's clearly slowly failing.
And the funny thing is, C++ is so complex it's the last language I'd expect to have multiple optimizing compilers (though rust is probably similar, I imagine.)
There's also the concern of immediate availability, i.e. if shark-derived squalene is available today and the plant-derived version takes time to scale, we can't just start using that if we want to mass-produce a vaccine very quickly.
I'd argue a fairer metric would probably be to compare gun deaths to car deaths; nearly twice as many people died to cars in 2019 [0] [1].
I definitely don't think Trump will be "Hitler 2.0". He probably won't even be in office after this election.
Again, however, my primary argument is normative and values-based. I'm not arguing that we only have gun rights because they don't kill x number of people. Even if a hundred thousand people were killed by mass shootings I wouldn't support gun restrictions. We don't restrict people's liberties because others break the law. The thing most gun grabbers miss and that most gun rights proponents won't say is that our primary value is liberty not saving more lives.
A Python background explains that, as y'all tend to worry less about memory usage and re-use. This can have its upsides, but it probably creates a bit of a blind spot here, because it's referencing the sort of thing one probably wouldn't do in python.
That statement is good enough legal terminology. What makes you say otherwise?
No definition of "exploit". That word means different things when read in a marxist, capitalist, or legal context, and probably different things in branches of each.
I think you're missing the point. An "attack on others" isn't something that most Americans should be limited, if you mean by attack what I believe you do (please clarify). I'm not sure why you think the power to limit speech can't be abused: even with strict protections, we've had awful majoritarian policies like the Sedition Act and McCarthyism. We protect everyone, Nazis and racists included, because if we give the government freedom to restrict the content of speech it will be abused when the "other side" gets power.
Someone on a separate thread pointed out this is known as Havel's Greengrocer: the owner of a market feels obligated to display communist propaganda lest he be suspected of disloyalty to the party [0]. This is very similar to all the businesses suddenly issuing letters of support for Black Lives Matter, lest they be suspected of being racist.
No, it's priced into most computers. Retail costs over $100 last I checked (and more for pro), though OEMs pay cheaper prices for that sort of volume. There are also sketchy keys available for ~$20.
I appreciate the help, though I've looked inside my ports before and found neither dust nor lint. The problem seems to be mostly with cheaper stuff. I've mentioned this to USB-C enthusiasts before and gotten back, "Well, just by better-quality stuff." The difference is, I never had any problem with the connection on cheap USB-A devices. If the connector seemingly can't be made both cheaply and well, that is a huge flaw with the standard and means it ought to be abandoned wholesale.
HN doesn't permit users to downvote replies to their comments, so you can be sure that wasn't me. Maybe it's obvious to you, but I'm not sure how one qualifies as an expert in the necessity (or not) of removing the word "master" from github branches. Would you please elaborate?
You still didn't tell me who these "experts" are, though it seemed you were referencing several in a prior comment, so I'm unsure how to address that point. I'd of course respect the opinion of an expert, and I'd recognize that I have a very good chance of being wrong, but that makes it even more important to question things. If I'm right, we come to a better conclusion; if I'm wrong, I learn something.