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English literature heavily overrepresented

what third party do you need? The program can be opensource. The verification can be done onchain

zero knowledge cryptography solves this

Should be mandatory training to obtain the ESTA permit to enter USA (even if just for transfers)

Just writing here a line in defense of Rothko. His paintings are far harder to paint than it looks like. There were hundreds of layers, thinly applied, and carefully thought and wi…

Actually Rothko is way harder to paint than it looks.

Very cool! I'm gonna give it a chance for sometime as a default instead of DuckDuckGo

I trust the billionaires more than I trust governments. Which doesn't mean that I trust billionaires.

For a split second I thought a composer from the English Renaissance era wrote a book about logic.

I hope this fixes my issues with bluetooth on Linux. When I'm on battery the audio breaks all the time. I've tried all sorts of obscure config tweaks with Pulseaudio.

This just made me install Element right away and finally get away from Signal (and of course Whatssap) and bring as many people with me as possible

So true. As a spaniard I do it all the time. Love/hate my country.

I think it's easier to port everything elisp to Scheme (with some help by automation perhaps), than having an Emacs implementation in a Scheme that runs in all implementation of Sc…

I mostly agree with your comment. My main counterpoint to this angle, which is strictly correct, is that many people lack the same kind of context that you described, and do interp…

Correct, my comment was devoid of opinion or arguments, it was just that, a comment. I also don’t see how your last paragraph contributes any better to a healthy debate though. Reg…

I agree with the stigma associated to locations. I believe this stigma also affects past events, even if less so. So I think the argument for renaming the 1918 pandemic holds as st…

I find it interesting that it’s ok to call it Spanish Flu (while it wasn’t even originated there), but is politically incorrect to call this one the Wuhan virus or the Chinese flu.…

You are right. Sometimes I wish I were better at English.

I almost die in Java too.

Very cool! I use Clojure on a daily basis for coding, this is a great addition to the arsenal :) Actually, my main argument against _not using it_ is that Bash has this awkward syn…

Here you have a hint of the indoctrination: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/world/europe/spain-catalo... “We are not even allowed to wear a bracelet to school with the Spanish f…

You are probably reading biased media. Spain has not consistently escalated tensions, it's been done by both sides. I disagree that something like this is commonly understood as fu…

Should I infer from the downvote that the general consensus is that there are a good and a bad sides in this story then? I'm interested in knowing if that's the case. I have a hard…

Please don't bend the facts for your own bias. The king doesn't appoint those judges, will just ratify and is pretty much symbolical. They do have political influence but is kept b…

You can actually check my previous claims. They are not vague. Is just too extent, so if you want to dig deeper feel free to read both sides of the story, and not just what your pa…