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It is, in lots of languages. It is usually called "compile time macros" or "macros".

In lots of languages the macros run in the language itself, for example in Lisp, Scala or Nim.

In C++, compile time macros are run in two separate languages: 1 the "pre-processor" and 2 "C++ templates"

Previous thread from the time of posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=119295

The JVM plugin will only run signed applets these days, which costs at least $200 or so.

Presumably this will allow people who have legacy unsigned applets a way out?

This is addressed in the docs, at "stable_api_nonsense.txt": https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

(You might disagree with that doc, but if so you should address its arguments directly.)

By that definition, your first comment was a meaningless tautology. If a "reasonable" fee is one that causes a transaction to be accepted, then your first comment can be rewritten as:

"as long as the transaction [will be confirmed within several days], you can be pretty sure that it will be confirmed eventually".

Sounds interesting. Do you have a website or blog where I can look for updates?

Exactly. They extract money by addicting people and taking advantage of them. It should be criminal.

ELIZA, is that you?

Because a single-payer health system (like the NHS) largely prevents this discrimination.

> People always say this

Americans always say this.

I think it's a joke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

> I'm really not sure why we're still alive.

Anthropic principle / many-worlds interpretation? All the outcomes in which these accidents lead to nuclear war are no longer observable ;-)

Not in practice. To completely simulate the CRT refresh, you'd need to flash each pixel separately along the electron gun path. If your LCD has 1,000,000 pixels, you'd need 1,000,000 times faster refresh rate to do that.

I've never seen "coöperator" spelled with a diaeresis before. Apparently it's a New Yorker house style: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-t...

Does anyone know anything about the magstrip data? Is it signed in some way that they can't forge?

I used to do that with SVN. What a pain in the ass.

Git's version is miles better.

I haven't checked the stats, but I don't think that there's less litigation in the US compared to other western countries, so if that was the aim it seems to have failed.

Me too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rule_(attorney%27s_fee...

> "Nearly every Western democracy other than the United States follows the English rule."

Does anyone know why the US decided on this system? It seems obviously unfair.

> This guy built a million dollar business in a year providing a service that people want to pay for... I say "Congrats!"

More like, this guy built a million dollar business that arbitrages the DNS renewal system by squatting desirable names that he has no plans to use, then rent-seeking from those who do want to use the names. This is not a value-creating enterprise, but a zero-sum trader making money by taking it from other people.

I say "why don't you take that ingenuity and use it for something productive."

> The A380’s size has become its disadvantage as airlines prefer relatively smaller planes such as the Airbus A350 and rival Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliner that can fly nonstop to their ultimate destinations, bypassing major hubs such as London Heathrow and Singapore’s Changi Airport.

(Range seems odd to me as a factor, as Wikipedia thinks the Dreamliner and the A380 have the same max range.)

Just get a dumb phone. I don't have a smartphone because I'm sure I'd fall into the same trap.

It's occasionally difficult, but usually just freeing.

It's a very religious idea that "the justice system ought to be about meting justice", particularly a Protestant / Christian idea. The very phrase "meting out justice" is a biblical one.

Secular societies are more interested in the outcomes than the moral righteousness of the system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballpoint_pen -- Wikipedia suggests that the ball point pen was first invented in the late 19th century, but that they didn't catch on until after WWII because they need "modern chemistry and precision manufacturing capabilities", which sounds consistent with the claims in this article.

[citation needed]

... but clients can guard against weak server-side DHE by rejecting DHE ciphersuites. So I think the GP was correct that this diagnostic should be updated.

Exactly. Or maybe no commission at all on repeat bookings? Then there's no pressure for the relationship to jump the walled garden and you keep the customer on the site to come to you first for future searches.

25% of the wages? Sounds like they were just greedy as much as anything else. Of course the customers are going to be looking to cut out the middleman as soon as possible with that kind of commission.

> bringing a gun to a knife fight

I'm so glad I live in the UK where both criminals and self-defence is mostly knife based.

I think the American style of "bringing a gun to a knife fight" just escalates everything.

You think you need a gun in order to kill a would-be assailant. The OP says he used a knife to scare them off. I know which I prefer.

What is actually being proposed here? Is this a charity effort? A vulture capital fund that wants equity? Something in between?

In babies, I would guess that some of the amniotic fluid is also absorbed into the blood stream. Both that and evaporation seem much less likely to work with perfluorocarbons.

How would you return to breathing normal air after having your lungs flooded with this liquid?