Most versions of the American accent are a bit nasal compared to other English speakers, so I guess that makes it higher pitched on average -- even if I wouldn't call it "shrill".
Also, there is no a neat separation between nasal Americans and other English speakers. Many Australians are also quite nasal, whereas black Americans (unless you count Steve Urkel) don't strike me as nasal at all.
On the third hand: I find the Irish accent is higher pitched than most, without sounding either nasal or shrill. But Americans often sound a lot like the Irish, so that might also make them higher pitched.
Now you are confusing me, because in Australia "mall" means something else -- and in Bondi Junction there's a mall right outside the Westfield.
I had some visitors from from Washington DC recently. They were impressed at how much more "happening" the local shopping centre (Hornsby Westfield) was compared to American malls. I suspect Westfield is a bit of a world-leader in this business.
Because in America these things are designed by zoning and the political process. What you describe in Japan sounds like the Horrors of Captialism and can't possibly be allowed in America.
(Except I suppose it does happen, since the whole point of the article is that NYC does it).
> Complexity will increase, but our level of abstraction will increase to match, as with any technology.
But this is no panacea. The complexity will still be there, and ops folks will have to deal with it through extra layers of indirection and obscurity (which are other ways to spell "abstraction").
That might be the best compromise, but it is still a compromise.
A public safety rationale would be about cops service weapons. The parent post sounds like he means individual cops can buy guns on the open market as private citizens would be allowed to do in states with looser gun laws.
Let's get this straight. There's "American English" used in the US and Canada. And then there English, where "colour" is spelled with a "U", and that's used in lot more countries, and natively spoken by more people than American English.
The Nazis got away with going around beating up opponents with truncheons.
The authorities turning a blind eye to that stuff was not an upholding of anyone's civil liberties, it was being complicit in shutting down other's free expression.
That's a of an odd reading of an article that is going out of it's way to point out that the "marketplace of ideas" idea was (1) not the justification for the 1st Amendment and (2) that Ben doesn't view it as the justification for Facebook's move either.
> In fact, I would go further: Facebook’s stance is an essential expression of what makes American tech unique. Don Valentine, the legendary founder of Sequoia Capital who passed away last week, once said:
>> The world of technology thrives best when individuals are left alone to be different, creative, and disobedient.
> This is not a statement about participating in the marketplace of ideas, winning others over by the power of your argument. It is, rather, an affirmation of the absence of tyranny. Only when individuals are able to think for themselves can something truly new to the world be created, and the proof will be the success in the market for tech products and services.
I'm guessing you don't count cURL as half-decent. Because it's API is C++k let alone idiomatic, modern C++?