Best I’ve been able to explain it is that it’s a country build on hope and dreams, which are not compatible with reality and truth.

And at this point it’s also code for ‘machine learning’.

Which really is just fancy statistics. Sometimes it’s barely more advanced than plain regression.

I’m surprised you got tired of the stupid decisions if I’m honest.

I wasn’t aware the characters were making any.

Wouldn’t surprise me if even Unicode advices against using Roman numerals depending on meaning.

It was mostly a joke (though frankly if you try any implementation more complicated than that joke you’re going to have a bad time).

The biggest number that can be defined in fewer than twenty words.

It’s simple ⅯⅯⅩⅩⅣis a number, MMXXIV is not.

Education has really failed to impress upon people the importance of asking questions. It’s amazing how much time is wasted on making people learn answers to questions they don’t even know how to ask.

I’m not too sure being non-religious from the start would lead to better education. Seems to me that religion was quite a big driver behind early education. You’ll also have some trouble separating history religion and science at that point, people told each other stories about things that happened or how they thought things worked. Some of those stories are rather more fantastical than they needed to be, but how would you tell if there’s nothing to kickstart intellectual discourse in the first place?

And the whole religion stops crime through fear idea seems overly simplistic. It’s the same reasoning that bigger sentences would lower crime, and so far that hasn’t worked terribly well.

Americans assuming ‘America’ means ‘U.S.’

Wait so the production release would consist of uploading the files with Filezilla?

If you can SSH into the server, why on earth use Filezilla?

Maybe some idiot shot straight up into the air?

I must have missed that one, what’s going on with Filezilla?

At some point even the pope disagreed. Or well, one of them did. It was complicated.

It’ll be a rather unpleasant death I might add. Plan accordingly.

If anything it was the lack of anything happening that made me switch over.

Why did the United States enter the Vietnam War?

Not the easiest kind of question to answer with multiple choice…

Movies. You used to be able to just buy them and own the data.

Now you have to pray the other party doesn’t ‘alter the deal’ and if you are proactive about safekeeping the stuff you own you’re a ‘thief’.

Depends, who’s choosing the experiment?

Keep in mind that for the way UK elects MPs something like Alternative Vote (or even approval voting, which I prefer) would only help with the problem that only 2 parties have any chance of winning in each particular constituency.

It doesn’t get around the issue that ‘% of constituencies where party X wins the election’ and ‘% of votes cast for party X’ are in no way the same thing.

If UK politicians had any sense they’d fix the voting system that let that happen.

Obviously they won’t because that same system put them in power and is currently holding far-right at bay, but it would be nice.