Given a moral framework, the third statement is an empirical statement. Given a traditional Christian moral framework, as an example, the third statement is true. If you believe that a traditional Christian moral framework is necessary for Western civilization to continue, then that justifies the first two statements. For the United States, then, the major task is to argue that a traditional Christian moral framework isn't necessary for Western civilization to survive.
Thing is that we don't use a traditional christian framework. We throw out most of the old testament and much of the focus is on the new Gospel. Explicit line against gays lies in Leviticus, and like most of Leviticus should be ignored.
Users should only be able to vote once (maybe be allowed to change it, but right now someone can overrule the consensus by hitting an arrow key as many times as they can)
Heh.. can't speak any ilaksh or ithkuil just picked the name so people would Google it and because it is usually available as a screen name. Seems like ithkuil pretty much owns as far as conlangs and is interesting from a general knowledge representation standpoint but honestly I never really took the time to understand many of the details since even approaching that would take me a solid month or two. Thanks I will check out loper.. but can loper compete with Intel? We need advanced general purpose open source chips that we can use for gaming and everything else.
There's a surprisingly active community at /r/ithkuil with people doing translations.
The loper os thing is currently two guys playing with fpgas, but the one knows his lisp and knows what he wants and has supposedly written most of the OS code already, so I'm hopeful. I'm not sure if anything other than a networked lisp machine would work for the kind of verifiably-not-backdoored software/hardware that everyone wants. Aside from the obvious smell of a lisp hacker trying to do his own full stack, I'm surprised that it hasn't gotten more attention.
Wow I actually have the username ithkuil on reddit (using runvnc now) Did not actually think to check for a subreddit. I wonder if he would want my username. Would probably have to delete my account first though if you can do that.
I am honestly, genuinely confused why anyone gives two shits about some minor IDE feature that has been part of other editors (Sublime, Vim, Emacs, more?), for at least three years now. If someone could help me understand why this has 51 points right now, that would be greatly appreciated.
Some people, myself included, use Jetbrains' IDEs much more heavily than the aforementioned editors. Personally, I love their IDEs and comparing them to the aforementioned editors is really unfair as the IDEs offer features that are simply impossible in text editors. Multi-select is one of the features that would make the aforementioned editors even more dispensable and the IDEs even better.
Now for the flamewar:
Is there anything that a non-emacs/vim IDE or editor can do that both emacs and vim cannot? Aside from social inertia (e.g. your colleagues use it, it's your first and only power editor), I have a hard time understanding why anyone would use anything else.
My hunch is that it's primarily a marketing problem, especially for emacs.
Of course. Language specific code insight (real-time interactive static code analysis, essentially), navigation, context code completion, and refactoring (in whole project). I find these to be the most valuable features of IDEs. I'm not sure if vim/emacs can do multi-language syntax highlighting (for fixing that nasty spaghetti) and what their level of support for debugging is (through plugins), but those would be next on the list.
EDIT: As far as vim, it is supported in any decent IDE (including Jetbrains' ones), so in that sense, it can do a huge percentage of what vim can do as well (not sure about emacs).
Its a very useful feature, and its becoming more well-known and requested by users of power editors .. which is a good thing, because multiple-cursors was a feature that we had in the 80's, but somehow got neglected .. and now its back again.
