Nothing about the actual computing mechanism introduced in the story is realistic, and that's on purpose. The point of the story is to investigate what would happen if such a thing were possible.
Isn't it basically a reductio argument for why it's not a possible scenario - there are no [discernible?] infinites in reality (or maybe there are no infinites because it's a simulation and simulating infinites is impossible ;0)> )
Are you really arguing that the “oppression” faced by white, heterosexual, cisgendered, male nerds is comparable to the denial of human rights that women, non-whites, transgendered people, and other oppressed groups face every day of their lives? I'm not looking to get into the oppression olympics, but to claim that it's in any way comparable suggests a fundamental, offensive lack of awareness about others' experiences.
Women in first world countries have the same rights that men do--if not more, as in the case of being exempt from the draft. Since the "denial of human rights" we are talking about in this thread is over the use of the word "bro," and the (to feminists) perceived social ostracizing of women as a result of the word existing, mentioning another minority well known for being socially ostracized isn't exactly a stretch.
Also, please stop hating on the white het cis males. I may not be one myself, but they are my friends, and my allies, and I also don't like seeing people treated poorly for the way they were born (having experienced too much of that myself). You are setting back the GLBT and PoC equality movements every time you hate someone based on their sex, race, gender, or sexual orientation. It's not appreciated.
You do realize that of the list of first world countries, most no longer have conscription, and of those that do, over half of them include women, leaving just a tiny number where women are exempt? And that this NOT EVEN REMOTELY offsets the various rights women lack compared to men (seriously, do some research rather than making nonsensical claims), and that women earn significantly less worldwide — including first world countries — compared to men despite equal qualifications and quality of work, and that your continued insistence on spreading the lie that women have "more rights" is both disingenuous and contributes to more people believing lies, perpetuating them and continuing to uphold their misogynist views justified on the basis of these lies?
Wait, no, clearly you do not realize that. But you should. Please do. It's getting tiresome.
I think one of the arguments for Ruby over Python is the whole Theres More Than One Right Way To Do It philosophy which does make things significantly easier to write down in Ruby, especially coming from scratch. This is much like Postel's principle---a computer should be receptive to many slightly malformed inputs because they will happen. That makes the computer more successful.
The problem is that once you start accepting malformed inputs you can never be rid of them and thus you have a permanent tower of babble[1] problem.
People say this a lot, but I honestly don't think it does. Code written using monads, whether the IO monad or a custom monad stack provided by a web framework, tends not to play too nicely with other Haskell code. It kind of demands everything be on its own terms and isn't as simple, clear, and transparent as the best Haskell code can be.
Don't get me wrong, I love Haskell, but I don't think it's very good at imperative programming, and I think there are much better solutions to be found to problems such as I/O.
