I agree . More people should be talking about what has been going on with voter disenfranchisement , gerrymandering , etc . But given the level of hate crimes on the rise , I ' m starting to wonder if saying that we didn ' t allow a bunch of nonwhite folks to vote wouldn ' t make people cheer instead of angry . <| sep |> I ' m not disagreeing , far from that but the hackerhobbyist community tends to disagree . They value easy of development over both performance battery life . See the success of libraries like Johnny Five or the Tessel 2 board which both run node . js on desktop processors . Running a JS VM on a microcontroller is already a big step up . <| sep |> best deal for XL was 170 that I saw <| sep |> Me too . The fear mongering is getting out of control