I think his point in this case is you own the physical item but not the information on it. If not then I could buy some musician’s cd then I could say “Now I own their music” and start selling copies of their cd, publishing it, stealing their rights to it, etc. I think we can all agree that would be bad.
Piracy by definition is stealing.
0-255 was good enough for me an my grandpappy.
So “You support X so you must be in the pocket of big business! But I support Y and I’m innocent and pure.”? I find the same talking points with solar and wind too.
I’m guessing they expect to sell power
While I’m pronuclear we really need to invest in better nuke power tech. Spending billions, mainly due to the risks with current water cooled reactors, is handicapping it. Systems that minimize waste, use passive failsafe systems, etc are needed.
Caffeine? No, the science says otherwise
Al Qaeda and Daesh/ISIS anyone?
“I must destroy anything that preceded by religious obsession”. So ISIS aren’t the only barbarians.
So instead of reducing a clearly destructive habit now we should wait for a major social change that likely won’t happen. I don’t see how that is more altruistic for the “poor and disaffected”.
Vaping is a joke, they stuck the addictive chemical (nicotine) in it and now they are hooked on vaping. Let them sell vaping goods but they shouldn’t be allowed to add nicotine to them.
Hmmm, where have I heard this proposal before?
Rishi is just jealous that they aren’t one of the cool kids
https://www.theonion.com/secondhand-smoke-linked-to-secondhand-coolness-1819564071
Loads? These aren’t exactly major nations here and the bigger ones are oil producers.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-top-budget-surplus.html
KSA actually hands out money to citizens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen's_Account_Program_(Saudi_Arabia)
They (the royal family) have grown up pissing away massive amounts of money. Why stop now?
I’ve worked on satellite command and control software that is literally using a 1970s OS. The code is limited for historical reasons and you have to work with the structure you are given.
When it has been compiled into assembly language
Yes, two of the most important things I see comments do is explain things like boundary conditions, “This is why we stop at 50 here.” and historical reasons “We have to return a 1 here because we still use calling func FOO for all of our calls still and it expects 1 as the default…”
Another helpful use is to describe the expected format of the input. “We expect a struct with this format here…” Stick in a small example too. It makes it so much easier to quickly scan the code’s flow.
I think it boils down to you need a lot of kids to run a farm due to the manual labor demands. You don’t need a lot of kids to work in a factory or office.