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You've made a lot of arguments itt: 1. Closures, all two years of them, were fully justified from a public health perspective. 2. Learning losses weren't all that bad. 3. The tests…

> I am...glad you were able to afford expensive private schooling to shield your kid from the effects of the deadly pandemic that led to more than a million deaths in the US? I'm a…

StackOverflow seems to have a new/shiny bias.

> There’s no space for that kind of behaviour in a university debate. Setting the present question aside, I think this is a very time-bound point of view. There used to be riots in…

> I'm sure they have an honor code at the school Why are you sure about this? Honor codes tend to be a thing at Southern schools.

> Also I disagree about "democratic leaders have to dole out public goods to maintain their power". Disagree all you want. This is why certain ideologies that tend to be rule-follo…

> free money causing the gradual degradation of food, housing, standard of living, etc. is not without merit. First, you have to establish that degradation has taken place. Conside…

Maybe it's not useful? Or not as presented here? I mean, Malaysia and Japan have both been ruled by basically the same party for all but maybe a few years since the end of foreign …

> Ideally, the Linux desktop world would just split in half, so that there can be a clean separation between these two ideals. Isn't that basically what's happening already? Chrome…

'Google kills' is the information technology equivalent of 'Florida man'. Always a fount of disappointed amusement.

I dislike the phrase 'dynamic language' and especially dislike the phrase 'static language'. We should say 'dynamically typed' or 'statically typed', because 'static' languages are…

Low-quality post.

> The insurance company doesn't know what you are discussing in your sessions That's not true. From what I understand, sessions are coded e.g. "Intake" or "Meds check" when billed …

> What do you think it cannot do (apart from running Androis apps)? Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

Interestingly, 1977 is also regarded as the definitive year of punk rock.

Different language though. Greek poetry was so conservative it can be hard to tell what is a living form and what is a clever pastiche, especially as the Hellenistic era goes on.

We have the notation for a small amount of Hellenistic and Roman era music, and I think a tiny little bit of Euripides. We'll never know what Sappho sounded like, though.