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I don't see memes as infecting our minds so much as giving voice to something that is already there that doesn't come up in conversation. The Nike and Sweatshop meme wouldn't be funny if people didn't already know that Nike had faced charges of using sweatshops. We all have a friend who seems to have terrible luck, so when formalized as "Bad Luck Brian" it becomes a vehicle for finding humor in this.

I saved this link previously. I haven't been through it yet but looks promising.

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-authoritative-guide-to-b...

Chart: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/dart/

I think of Adam Curtis as a journalist. You may disagree with his facts or interpretation of them, but he tells an interesting story with his investigations.

I quit because of what you call his "quote voice." As if everyone in history talked in that way.

> I mean, Facebook even has to consider how to protect the integrity of the Russian election later this year. OK, that was a joke.

The day will come during the election, when Putin accuses Facebook of anti-Putin fake news

The author doesn't mention memory management. I gather Crystal does not have a garbage collector, but the author doesn't explain how Crystals memory management compares to C++ or Rust.

I used to be a c++ dev so a 15 sec compile time doesn't seem that bad. But what if you're compiler told you what was wrong faster than your console.log() could help you find it. I think is a trade off a lot of people want to make.

Microsoft addressed this and says Typescript is most beneficial to manage large code bases

> It makes no sense at all whatsoever that the front end logic should be more strict than the API!

It does to people who appreciate type information. To each his own. I can see the appeal of dynamic typing but I am pretty sure obvious errors (obvious if the compiler has type info) go uncaught.

You can read more concerns about IOTA and ternary in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15980675

IOTA rebutted MIT here: https://blog.iota.org/official-iota-foundation-response-to-t...

It is completely legal now and I didn't need a prescription card. They asked me if I had a prescription card, for what reason I don't know, because I've never had one and they don't require it anymore. I think perhaps medical clients get discounts or special deals?

I wonder if it is retaliation for this: Dutch intelligence agency spied on Russian hacking group

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-russia-cyberc...

Elon Musk should do an ICO of a new cryptocoin he could call Marscoin. People would buy it in droves.

I bought my first legal weed in California yesterday and it was a very interesting experience. I don't usually smoke but I wanted to see what the store was like. It was strictly cash only. They had several ATM's installed in the building. Security was tight for this reason. It's hard to process that it's now legal.

So I gather you don't believe batteries will succeed as a solution

See the Oyster Protocol https://oysterprotocol.com/

There are some links and info in this article which are good starting points: "8 Things We Learned about Blockchain During our Hackathon" https://arctouch.com/2018/01/blockchain-hackathon/

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16240874

> It's my firm belief that the world would be far better off if crypto-currencies had never been invented.

That's a level of dislike I don't see too often

Or they have no faith in Lightning Network technology

He says in the article they are considering Bitcoin Cash as well as Litecoin

There are concerns about IOTA: MIT Media Lab's concerns about the cryptocurrency IOTA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15980675

I think Zuckerberg has recognized the problem without really saying exactly what it is. He's trying to fix it because it goes against his core mission of connecting people in a better way. I give him some credit for this.