Surveys are one thing. Votes are another. Voters have consistently voted to put oil companies in the highest seats of power for decades, because they are "pro-business".

Don't confuse people with industries. Sure, people who worked in Oil and Gas got elected -- Bush Sr. is the most recent one. People who also worked in media got elected -- Reagan.

You are going to elect a person from some industry, after all, unless you plan to elect someone with no skills or employment history. The time of electing generals like Eisenhower is past.

But the fact that, say, people elected Trump has nothing to do with people really favoring the real estate industry -- that's a very odd interpretation of what elections signify, and does not refute the survey data about people's opinions of Big Business.

I am sorry that you are not party of the enlightened minority, but a normal person would be happy that the vast majority of the public share one of their beliefs, so maybe be thankful. Alternately, you can adopt a new minority belief if needed.

No one does. The mining rights are stolen by corrupt governments and then given away to cronies.

For all of the Eastern bloc's problems, education was phenomenal by global standards.

I suspect that's a natural consequence of good people being held down in poverty by tyrannical government.

People are happiest either slightly before they have kids or slightly after their kids turn 18, depending on whether they had children late or early. Childless married people coast through marriage years.

Why is it better to have to pretend to have everything out of control, and for living a healthy life to be shameful instead ideal?

This mentality that success and maturity and health are evil is societal suicide.

It's my older. Aesop published the gable of Sour Grapes.

You overlooking the critical term: variable-length.

Haskell is not declarative. It is a specific form of lazy + graph-reductive. Thinking of it as declarative leads to polynomial exponential runtime cost in CPU/memory and not understanding why or how to fix it.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40130014/why-is-haskell-...

I'm not talking about the compiler or the evaluation. From programmer's perspective the language does seem fairly declarative to me, mostly consisting of expressions instead of statements.

I don't know what's wrong about thinking about expressions as declarative which in my opinion they are. How would thinking about expressions imperatively help me avoid those exponential runtime costs?

For example consider the list comprehension: [toUpper c | c <- s]

If you compare this with your typical imperative for loop to construct the same data structure I find this declarative.

Strong disagree. I don't remember passwords like I remembered phone numbers. Perhaps because I don't say them out loud, hand write them, and lunch them on a tactile keyboard frequently

Phone numbers, at least in the US, were much simpler 15+ years ago. Most people had a number starting with an area-code + first-3, out of say, 5-10 possible combinations.

EG, 123-444, 123-323, 123-789, 555-121. So, you really needed to remember the prefix and the last 4. There were exceptions, but most of your circle lived within this finite space of telephone numbers.