I know people who go by nicknames in some places because their name is apparently censored.

Russia is in Europe and probably thinks that's cute.

My personal hate is the word “settler”, which invokes an image of somebody taking previously useless land and making it fit for human habitation, but apparently has been redefined within the borders of Palestine to mean “armed invader”.

North American Natives probably resent that sentence....

It is very rare for no humans to make use of land at all. Whenever someone "settles" it, they are taking it away from someone else. Usually force gets involved at some point, even for nomadic tribes. It's why colonialism has a bad rep these days.

I think this points to a large problem in our society is how we train and pick our managers. Oh wait we don't. They pick us.

We've done this to a point in Montreal (parts of alleyways that were deemed unnecessary were de-paved, and small plants planted there. We don't grow food there, but it looks nice, reduces traffic in alleyways and should help have less paved surfaces for heat in hot summer days.

The other equivalent of this is a carbon capture technology that actually works. It's also far-fetched from what we know yet.

But the day it exists, capital will pour into it since it's a way to get paid by subsidies for the rest of your life. And all you need to do to also to grow that sector is burn more fossil fuel and it works so long as government can tax people more. It's kind of like having both the poison for the whole world, and the cure, and demanding ransom (while being paid for the poison).

I think his point is about judges being corrupt. He has information useful to us and he's not mentioned how he feels about his uncle. No point being mean to him.

You'd think the republicans, their voters, their donors, and the whole media apparatus behind it, would get some of the blame too. I know, they'll see it as glory rather than blame. The dems didn't do it, they were just lame.

Or if the debates weren't managed by a private entity owned by the other two parties.

Canada has first past the post voting, and 3 active parties. My province has first pas the post and has 4 major parties (with a 5th one that is close but can't get a representative in). I'll agree that ranked voting at least would be a lot better.

It works like that in French until you use a different word for the machine.

"Mon ordinateur est une bonne machine". In a single sentence my computer was described with words both male and female.

It's just vocabulary and grammar, not the deep essence or identity of things or people.

Generally, you can replace some comments with variable names or comment names. Which means you must already be in the habbit of extracting methods, setting new variables to use appropriate names, and limit context to reduce the name (Smaller classes and methods means shorter names can be just as expressive, because the context is clearer). It lowers the number of wtfs per minute you get reading code before you even need whole sentences to explain why things are done in a certain way, because the names can be a powerful hint.

But realistically, you end up needing comments for some things anyways.

It has a rocky start, and a lot of cruft from that era sticked around.

There are also a lot of horrible legacy projects from the pre-ES5 era which are a pain to work with. Often older projects were coded either before people knew how to do javascript right, or before the devs who wrote it knew how to write javascript right.