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But doesn't python3 now generate bytecode (.pyc files or __pycache__) too? Is there a fundamentally large difference between these and the .class java files or the node's equivalent?

Yep exactly. I consider myself common that's why I don't get offended by the word "plebeian". In my books, plebeian is just a synonym for "commoners", there is no other meaning to it.

Plebeians here means common people or the commoners, no need to get triggered!

What if the plebeians don't mind privacy intrusions? What if they are happy to give away their privacy on a platter if they are getting free email, digital maps, traffic stats, cloud drive and a whole lot of other goodies from Google? Never underestimate the power of freebies!

I haven't been there either but weather is clearly a very subjective thing. Personally, I don't like rains at all, for example, but most others seem to enjoy them (at least here in India). So, it depends.

Forgive me for being a contrarian but I see nothing more than yet another Stallmanist rant in this?

Ceej and company are trying to portray NPM as the villain here, but is the entire JS ecosystem's burden their's to carry? They keep whining that Roald Dahl is miserable and all despite inventing Node and why the NPM founder is so rich with VC money, etc. According to me, therein lies their hypocracy:

On one hand, you declare your altruism and how you care about commons and not money but on the other hand, you try to imply guilt on those who try to earn money out of JS ecosystem! How is this fair? You do your job and let them do theirs, I don't see how NPM is made the villain here?

But a "restaurant on wheels" is a idea that will be truly profitable, at least in theory! Its true that restaurants abound in localities today but mobility of people (and their eating preferences) from one location to another has also increased. Restaurants which are profitable today may not be tomorrow. A restaurant on wheels can easily adapt to changing demands by constantly moving on from low demand areas to high demand ones. Maybe, Amazon can even build an AI or something to guide it for most efficiency.

My gut feeling is that Google won't pull this stunt with chrome, this is some kind of scare mongering or a PR tactic, I dunno.

It doesn't make a logical sense because if they are banning the ad-blockers, it means they accept that chrome is largely used by power users who can install these blockers (otherwise, what's the need?). But they should realize that a power user who installs an addon can just as easily move to another browser like firefox/brave. And the PR repercussions will ensure that a lot of newbies will leave too (because they usually follow the power users on youtube) which will essentially kill the advertising income that they wanted in the first place?

pip doesn't check anything. As the top reddit comment quotes from the github issue:

>> This isn't a bug, we've purposely de-emphasized PGP on Warehouse. While we support uploading them still and they're still a part of the API, we're not exposing them to the user in the UI.

Totally true. It also gives rise to echo chambers, people just keep circle-jerking around those of approve of them reciprocally and thus keep themselves in constant denial.

Imagine what you'd be doing if there were no reddit (or any other social network for that matter)?

You'd be out there trying to find real friends at meetups, clubs, gatherings, etc. don't ya? It helps a lot if you assume that internet doesn't exist for a day and see what miracles your mind comes up with then!

On that note, even Internet Explorer (IE) was bundled freely, Microsoft never charged a dime for it. Why was anti-trust pursued against Microsoft then?

Honestly, I see no difference between that scenario and this. If anything, Google has been a lot more guilty than for just monopolizing on a browser here.

Thanks for the info, have an upvote!

That was true a long time ago, but recently DO has also proven to be a professional cloud hosting provider in the same league. Frankly, I was expecting the same level of support/service as AWS from them.

BTW, I don't even see a downvote button around posts, there is only upvote button! Is it because I'm new here?