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But really it's about everyone just being human, and therefore crap at these things. Once security 'products' realise this, and cope well with people being rubbish at their jobs, then those products will make a lot of money... If only the people measuring ROI were also not rubbish at their jobs... ;)
I'm not sure fragmenting doc string syntax further is a good idea for the python community. There's been efforts to support Markdown on pypi for README.md. But even that has been met with a lot of resistance.
It's a valid argument that people die because of multiple nuclear accidents in the USA.
In a car accident if someone dies two days after in hospital as a result because of injuries (a consequence of the accident), people say that they died of a car accident.
Radiation poisoning is obtained as a result of a nuclear accident. In exactly the same way as injuries obtained as the result of other accidents.
To draw a distinction, and claim there is a difference is being ambiguous. Many people will misunderstand the difference because it makes no sense, and is not the way everyone else uses the language.
To claim people understanding the statement in a sound way are fearmongering or being ignorant is silly.
The headline is misleading.
ps. "only fatal reactor accident in US history" claim, apart from the other deaths within the USA, the recent (and still ongoing) Fukushima accident used a General Electric design from the USA.
Can rust be readable?
Try it in a Sean Connery voice... "The British Gut Project"
The UK is at 21.8% for comparison.
The link you provided shows between 43% and 55% are functionally illiterate (basic or below) depending on which test you look at, for English.
Just because education is poor for people who don't know English as a first language, and just because USA services are not available in Spanish despite such a large percentage speaking Spanish does not mean there is no problem.
Functional illiteracy in the USA is a big problem. The education system in the USA is a massive failure.
[0] Cleckler, Bob (2009). Let's End Our Literacy Crisis, Revised Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah: American University & colleges Press. pp. 15–26. ISBN 1-58982-230-7.
Will a change be immediate? No. But I've seen the affects in other countries over 10 year period.
It's never a single thing which helps people in society. It's many things at once. Of course if the students need to work to support their families or even to feed themselves, then a free education is going to help far less people. But if those same students don't need to pay for their education, then many more will be able to do so.
Reading level of US adults at a proficient level is only 13% http://www.statisticbrain.com/number-of-american-adults-who-...
Will this result in a more highly skilled, and a more highly educated population? Yes.
People should still be able to afford private schools if they can now.
The American idea that you can't mix socialism and capitalism is absurd! (urg, just saying these words makes me feel like I'm using outdated old ideas from the 1800's!)
Societies much better than USA are mixing them well with great effect. Selling out your young people with debt is really silly. Having 45% illiteracy in the USA only benefits the people currently in power.
The trip time is going to be around 40 minutes by train.
Therefore slavery still exists. It just got sneaky.
Well sort of sneaky - the English were calling their white slaves convicts. When people did crimes like steal bread, they could be sent all the way across the oceans on six month voyages to work. Yeah, they could eventually be free... but even if they managed that; then getting back was near impossible for most.
The deadly particles in London are now mostly invisible. If you live in London you'll die 20 years earlier. Great city, but I'm glad I'm not there any more. I used to hate having a nose full of black coming out of the northern line. London is rated as having the worst air pollution in Europe. They say about 50,000 people die per year in the UK because of bad air quality.
There's still some coal stations near cities in the UK though... even one near London. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Existing_UK_coal-fired_...
Does the USA have free elections, and free media? I thought most people didn't vote and they only had two choices. Lawyer man number one who went to Harvard, or lawyer man number two who went to Harvard. I thought the corporations owned most of the media in the USA? The USA ranks very low on freedom of the press rankings. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'd be very interested if you knew how their society worked, or if you had visited the country? If you don't then you are ignorant. But, I'd love to hear your opinion anyway (assuming you aren't locked up without a fair trial), since that is the American way. A country with 45% illiterate people sure does have a lot of loud opinions.
Sure - it's a society with many(many) issues, but it does have elections. With more people voting in them than in the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_People%27s_Re...
Get a high paying python contract, and then donate some proceeds to other cheaper developers. You should be able to get $200K-$300K as a contractor for one years work (or more).
Somewhere in big data, finance, games, or other places that pay for performance - that also use python a lot.
Once you are embedded, it is much easier to do sales for other pypy related contracts. eg. if one of your team were at facebook, dropbox, or google - it may have been your team who got those VM projects. This is a sales tactic that many consulting shops use.
A sponsorship approach seems to work for some FOSS projects. As does conferences.
Helping students with grant proposals can also bring in a lot of effort. This is something the pypy project does of course. But just mentioning it for other people who may read.
If your goal is helping the pypy project these could all work. For me, I've used these approaches for FOSS projects with some success.
speed.pypy as a service could probably be sold. For example as a devpi project that others could use. Reduce server costs by helping the development team speed up their code. It's got a pain point, a cost saving, and pretty graphs.