"lashes out" or actually just talks common sense

Lashing out and common sense aren't mutually exclusive. I.e you can lash out as someone with a message containing common sense information. I agree the headline is a bit exaggerated, but it's not incorrect.

I also don't think endianess is common sense. Maybe among experienced kernel developers it is, but even Linus had to Google to see what the argument was. I don't think Linus is common, inexperienced, or dumb

Yeah - but the phrase is both clicky, and a good warning for folks unfamiliar with Linus' communication style.

Diplomacy and tender feelings aside - the CEO yelling "HELL, NO!" can prevent an enormous amount of wasted time and talk.

dang i do all those things am i at risk?!

so all these other countries could provide the funding they need, but wont?

Leaving aside that USAID was hugely important to US soft power and the hopefully universal goal of preventing Ebola outbreaks, other people being shitty isn't an excuse to be shitty ourselves.

So giving them billions of dollars was shitty?

Helping these folks should be something we want to do as humans, not as part of our political cycle, or something our government forces us to do, IMO.

Has any critical commenter here contributed funds to this new ebola outbreak? Or do you just want to mandate that other people donate?

Thanks for asking. My non-tax medical aid dollars go to Project C.U.R.E. They haven't responded to this specific event yet because international ocean shipping isn't well suited to first response situations, but they'll eventually have supplies to help.

How do you choose to help?

[0] https://projectcure.org/

Can't the Congo itself fund a $23 million effort to save its own citizens?

No, because they’re resource cursed. Not everyone has the luxury of a working government.

They are also at war, they are fighting against the Rwanda-funded M23.

Yes, that’s exactly what’s happening.

It’s not right or wrong, it’s just the decisions we’ve made about the kind of world we choose to live in.

Think about other problems like hunger or health care in the United States. These are problems we have created for ourselves! We could choose to fix them and instead choose not to.

Indeed, most of the problems in the worlds are there because we don't actually want to fix them.

There's more than enough resources to provide every single person a reasonable existence; We just don't think the homeless, for instance, should be freely helped to get housing. Nah, can't have that, how else can we point to "those" people as examples of the kind of life not conforming gets you?

We'd rather millions go to bed hungry instead of not propping up national markets by destroying food and providing subsidies.

We make it hard on ourselves: With spare change, we could house every homeless person in a tent in a temperate environment in a remote location.

Instead, we house a tiny few in nice apartments in high COL cities.

Some problems are much easier to solve than others. The problems you are bringing up are far more intractable and far harder and more expensive to solve.

Domestic hunger is really not a hard problem to solve. Rice, beans, and vegetables cooked in bulk and handed out at every fire station.

OK they’re harder but they’re also potentially more important and valuable to solve.

They’re still solvable but we simply do not value solving them.

If you saw an guy on the floor gasping for someone to help with his asthma inhaler while other people simply walked by, would you walk by thinking yeah I could help him but other people aren’t so tough cookies, I’m not either.

Fill in any situation where someone is in need, one has the ability to help with little inconvenience, but one choose not to because other people aren’t helping.

It's not easy to replace a $25 billion global organisation in a few months.

nah in fact scala will be one of the reasons very few people will read this book

thats because they are npc's

almost got through a HN thread without seeing anyone making some kinda of remark, just let it go

its a great idea but i think the work to make something practical is extremely high

"ecma" doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth or in my ears. Perhaps because it's sound isn't common in the English language? I'm actually struggling to find any other words right now that sounds similar to ecma.

But to answer your question, here we all are talking about Deno. Can't say if that was their plan all along or not, but it's working.

I know what you mean, sounds like AcneScript.

Yeah there you go my teenage angst resurfacing after all these years

EczemaScript, to me.

EcmaScript is high on the list of reasons you don’t let devs name products.

we must work at the same enterprise

the impact of this was very tiny, seems like a win instead of the drama people are making it out to be