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I don't think that it's an arduous sum at all. I came from a working class family and I had nearly twice that amount ~$40,000 when I got out of college in 2001. I set up a payment plan and paid it off with about 5-6% interest.
Try Sparql.
Therefore, I don't think we can say that posts and replies on the websites hosted by private companies can be considered protected speech.
That said, treating upvotes and downvotes in the same way as the text in a post or reply is a pretty bad idea IMHO.
The primary reason not to fire this person is that if something like this can happen, it's a process failure.
However it's only a matter of time until something large collides with Earth and destroys it all.
Like it or not humans are the best chance this planet has to continue life on after a cataclysmic event by hopefully colonizing another planet.
Obviously, a triple store is a database that stores triples, and RDF (the Resource Description Framework) is an open standard maintained by the W3C so...
An RDF triplestore has the advantages of allowing for the storage of knowledge in a semantic way, that brings with it a powerful open standard for representing and querying the data.
I can't recommend this book enough. It's a very interesting story and gave me an appreciation for what it takes to do big things in the software industry.