I was not going to downvote your comment despite disagreeing with it, but since you are now citing your downvote/upvote ratio as proof that most people support your position, you now get downvotes from me.

That’s why in video games I smash everything in order to be safe.

It may have taken a while, but the Year of the Linux Desktop has finally arrived in 1969!

Here I came expecting to hear from the Rust-haters and the Wayland-haters, and instead I got to hear from the MIT License-haters!

There were plenty of people who were not Nazis in Germany when the Nazis took over the country.

In fairness, Anthropic needed some way to bundle up to stay warm in the upcoming AI winter…,

You have my deepest condolences.

Ah, that was some clever wordplay, given that one of the definitions of capital is “of or pertaining to the head”!

most people only have empathy for their immediate family and friends. that’s normal.

Speak for yourself.

Don’t do it, I2C! The “C” in your acronym doesn’t stand for cancer!!!

There are so many extraordinarily hard problems that need to be solved that I worry you are setting yourself up with false hope.

It does not have to be your cup of tea, but for the record, reading math does not require being smart so much as being patient.

What would you propose as an alternative?

They’re not assuming anything, they are doing calculus.

He sold his first software before it was even finished to his own unuversity.

What drives me crazy is when I hear this fact being cited as a positive thing that makes him a role model.

If it’s explicitly consensual then it’s not cheating because you are not breaking any understood rules of the relationship.

We will as soon as Elon Musk turns Tesla around and earns his contractual trillion dollar payout as a reward!

Agreed, there will always be a turbofish in the sea.

A sign that their programming skills are rusty.

Generally when one refers to a country as being “occupied”, the implication is that the people there are poor off as a result, especially relative to a neighboring country whose land is presumably being considered occupied, which in this case is implicitly North Korea due to the history of how the two countries split. It is therefore not in bad faith to directly ask whether the people there are better or worse off as a result.

You also seem to be hyper-fixated on one possible meaning of prosperous, which is “wealth and GDP”, when there are lots of other means related to flourishing in general. The original commenter was perfectly free to provide an answer along the lines of, “North Korea is the more prosperous country because X.” where X is a list of ways in which the people there are flourishing, and this would have been a valid answer (if not necessarily a correct one).

Alternatively, if they think that South Korea is better off but this does not matter because it is still less ethical than North Korea, then they could have taken the opportunity to be up front about that.

So in short, this question could have been used in all sorts of ways to provide an answer that clarified the commenter’s position. It is a shame that we never heard from them exactly what their thoughts were.