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The US support for Saudi Arabia, to which the hardline anti-Iran policy belongs as well, is one of the biggest disgraces of modern US foreign politics.

The support for a dictatorial regime that allows child marriage, has Medieval punishments for political opponents and for which atheism is a criminal offense: this support makes any claim that the USA is the defender of the free democratic world a joke.

Since training and education does not have any effect, isn't it time to make it a criminal offense to take your belongings when you are evacuated in an emergency situation?

Am I overlooking something, or is it obvious that if this is the single largest bi-truncatable prime known so far, that any larger one has to contain this prime in its middle?

So finding a new largest bi-truncatable prime is just a matter of trying to add each single digit at both sides of this prime; if any of them is again a prime, we have a new largest and if none of them is (which I guess is the case because the author must have tried this out already), then there exists no larger bi-truncatable prime.

Good question but I'm afraid that you will not always get an honest answer.

Too bad that some of our representatives seem to lack the mental capabilities to handle the 3-button voting system.

On the other hand, who says that the reverse hasn't happened as well? I could imagine that there also were some 'yes' voters who accidentally pressed the wrong button.

No it was removed only in JDK 11. Here's an example of a modular JDK 9 + JavaFX 9 app: https://carlfx.wordpress.com/2016/04/26/a-javafx-helloworld-...

Why not use Java 9 instead of 8? This could give your desktop app a smaller footprint (using the new modular jdk feature), so your app could start up faster.

I found quite a few mistakes in the Dutch dishes. For instance, kale is definitely not served as a compliment to every hot meal. Also, nobody eats raw herring here, the herring that is sold on the street has been cured in salt.

Even though intelligence is negatively correlated with fertility rate, it is positively correlated with survival rate of offspring. The net effect is not clear.

Apart from that, when you differentiate between men and women, the correlations turn out to be different: while women still have a negative correlation, for men the correlation between IQ and fertility rate turns positive.

See for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence

The first US Sanctions against South Africa took into effect in 1986, 5 years later the Apartheid system was ended.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Anti-Apartheid_A...

But the Apartheid regime in South Africa has collapsed, and so have (most) communist totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe.

I dont'agree with the Israeli occupation of foreign territories but I don't see what that has to do with the US's sanctions against Iran. Are you trying to say that the sanctions against Iran are bad, because there are no US sanctions against Israel?

>> As an European, I just don't get the Israeli fixation with Iran,

Well I'm a European too but I can completely understand that a country which repeatedly has announced its intention to wipe Israel of the earth gets more than usual attention from the Israeli's.

Some proven cases of economic espionage by the NSA: (and these were even against allies)

https://www.economist.com/europe/2015/06/27/i-spy-you-spy

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-nsa-scandal-economic-espio...

The writer mentions that it occasionally happens to other employees as well and that it happens not every time but "more than 50% of the time" for employee 2. This makes me suspect that it could just be variance that makes it seem as if the phenomenon happens "everytime" for employee 2.

It takes quite a lot of trials to reach 2 SD significance, you'd have to let employee 2 walk past the cubicle at least a hundred times to be sure that there is really anything going on.

This is a myth. Despite the global warming, Dutch sea level rising has not accelerated. See e.g. https://www.clo.nl/en/indicators/en0229-sea-level-dutch-coas...

It's not the soil but the lack of sun that deprives the tomatoes of their taste.

Greenhouses in the Netherlands are heated with natural gas. The Dutch government subsidises the gas so they can keep their costs low and be competitive. So that's another reason to eat organic food; it is more sustainable because it uses natural sunlight. And tastier as well!

The reason that Italy imports Dutch tomatoes is probably for using them in tomato sauce and other tomato products.

Italy's export of tomato products is far greater than its raw tomato export: see e.g. http://www.tomatonews.com/en/global-tomato-products-trade-20...

So no, I wouldn't say that Italians like Dutch tomatoes as much as their own.

The answer: development time and runtime safety. You don't want your HFT system to blow up with a seg fault when the stock exchange is crashing.

I can think of a couple of reasons; Java code is portable across OS'es; also while this code reads like C++, it might be part of a larger system with less performance-critical idiomatic Java.

The presentation claims that it takes 4 hours to travel from Paris to Amsterdam by car. Well, the distance is 750 km so you need a pretty fast car for that and a big wallet to pay for the speeding tickets ..

Using sub-resources, you get something like this: GET /orders/1/clients

I'm learning Haskell and I find this project very helpful and educating. There's one thing I'm wondering about, and that's the lack of (unit) tests. I'm coming from the Java world and I'm used to write unit and integration tests for most of the code I write. But I have noticed that in Haskell projects this is not so common.

Why is that? Is it a cultural thing, or is Haskell's strict type system and immutability so helpful that unit tests are not so necessary comparing to for instance Java?