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The bias of this mathematician and the rest of the Royal Society working group regarding vaccination is irrelevant to the subject of these papers, which analyse how and why misinformation is spread, and how correct information can retain credibility.

Reflexively trying to discredit them while being too lazy to read beyond the headline is a great way of making your own position look highly dubious though.

Capitalism's basic meaning is that the means of production are owned by private parties.

Putting them under government ownership instead doesn't seem like the solution to anything, unless you are very sure that the government will follow your ideological beliefs, not be corrupted by its newfound direct power over peoples lives, and not get taken over by populists.

One Word Broke C 6 years ago

This would presumably include any pointer dereferences where the compiler cannot prove that the pointer is always non null.

Why Clojure? 7 years ago

I don't hate any language myself, only the codebases I have to deal with, but Clojure is very different from Javascript in its support for immutability, such that if you want to update values you have to use atoms, agents etc. This goes a long way towards making up for the lack of typing when trying to understand peoples code.

Some people also find the lack of random syntactical noise in Lisp style syntax preferable.