purposes

Startup life is hard, and it's a lot easier to sacrifice with significant ownership and a sense of purposes.

By that argument, all taxation is bad because it diverts funds from other purposes.

Gox's corporate funds for purposes other than those reasonably required to run the corporation.

Now both of our accounts are flagged prime for all purposes as far as I can tell.

Normalization risks equating Prince and the artist formerly known as Prince, which is a worse picture of reality for a lot of purposes.

The sdf.org domain was only added a few years ago, and for a while the admin was also using freeshell.org for marketing purposes.

If you idle the coal plant to 80% rated output, you may still be using 85% as much coal (made-up numbers for illustrative purposes).

For all intents and purposes I'm one of those at this point, for what it's worth.

As far as I can tell, CSS is several orders of magnitude better than poking at C code for those purposes.

Mint is owned by Intuit which is the same company most all of us trust providing all our financial data to for tax purposes each year.

Roughly speaking, people might be thinking that such a back door would not be used for nefarious purposes, because that is not what it is for.

But a company using resources of their customer for their own private purposes without a very clear, up front and explicit opt-in is quite new and radical.

Any language that's used for non-trivial purposes will not be "simple" if looked at holistically by combining both the formal and informal real-world uses of it.

You're right that "everything is an object" is not the most performant way to build a runtime, but it suits the purposes for which Ruby was designed very well.

Most Uber drivers are much more like 1099 contractors, but I think for this purpose a general notion of what a "sharing economy" entails is sufficient for the purposes of comparison with this idea.