Surely the "addiction is a disease" mindset is a defensive response to the (especially in America) mindset that addiction is a moral failing. I.e. one crackpot opinion begets another.
The truth about 'addiction' is complex and different for each individual but, given that no one is born an addict, at heart the concept describes how many people have learnt to cope with their individual circumstances. Disease and morality are both inadequate to discuss this.
This is the most delusional piece of self-justification I have read in years. Your use of words like culling and optimise makes me suspect you need to work on your social skills, a lot.
No one likes braggers, no one. Sometimes braggarts who have power or some other use are tolerated, but only as long as they have to be.
Come on, its not difficult. Apple makes products in gold because it makes those products more appealing to Chinese consumers. If you're going to try and be an Apple hater at least also try to be intelligent about it.
But what is luxurious (or even exclusive) about HN? If you are going to generate some culinary comparison perhaps a niche burger (tofu?) would be more appropriate.
Reordering could alter the program's semantics as well as being extra work for such limited machines. FORTRAN permitted explicit and implicit declarations. It would be quite legal to use I as an implicit INTEGER variable then later explicitly declare it to be REAL and use it accordingly so the position of the declaration in the source code was significant. Then there are declarations inside subroutines etc.
So long as it possible to redefine the mode at will on a per connection basis or on startup then the integrity of data held within MySQL cannot be guaranteed.
That is silly. Most addicts don't have the resources to change their life structure, where would they go? what would they do? how would it be paid for?. It is only the rich who can check to a rehab clinic.
I would turn this round. Your habitual behaviour comes to be associated with your environment. By removing yourself from that environment you find that those habits become weaker and may vanish. Behaviour isn't changed so much as behavioural cues can be eliminated.
Neither interesting, nor surprising really. Curtis requires people to pay attention and think before they comprehend what he is saying. The Cook piece merely required them to click "like".
I don't think it is an original observation but Steve Jobs chose a very capable and worthy successor. Tim Cook gets more impressive each time you hear anything about him.
The difference between film and paint is that with a little skill it is possible to make your own paints. Film? Not so easy.
Film sales have been in decline for over 10 years. Before that, prices were subsidised by huge numbers of people who developed one film a year: christmas trees at each end of the roll, beach balls in the middle. There may be a vinyl-like resurgence driven by the nostalgic but I tend to doubt it. At some point film will simply be too expensive to produce. If you want to shoot film I would suggest you buy what you can and keep it in the fridge against the day when it is no longer available.
The fact that most people could look at that code and have no real clue what it actually does seems to have escaped you. This is in any event not the entire source code, as most of the work is done by function calls which most people would not know how to validate.
The truth about 'addiction' is complex and different for each individual but, given that no one is born an addict, at heart the concept describes how many people have learnt to cope with their individual circumstances. Disease and morality are both inadequate to discuss this.