The funny thing is, their big data police system is called Skynet.

> Eyecool, he said, is also handing over two million facial images each day to a burgeoning big-data police system called Skynet.

> because it's all they know.

Don't you think that's what they used to say about Altavista?

Where does it say "violent" protests?

Do you really believe JS is less wart-y than Python?

Do you really believe Python is less warty than JavaScript?

A lot of the same numeric tower decision exist. There's a big schism between List Comprehensions and not, there's no simple way to ship closures around, and Python's concurrent I/O story is a sizzling hot mess.

JavaScript has plenty of problems. So does Python. So why does Python maintain everyone else is stupid for embracing programming constructs that have been deployed successfully since the 60's?

He didn't call himself a hacker. The cops did.