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Thank you for this well-thought (and written) comment. Human nature - ignored at own peril.

That's a valid view, but some alcohol in moderation certainly helps grease the wheels of social interaction. This is probably why alcohol was known since ancient times. I'll cite: …

Surely home insurance is going to make it whole?

A layered approach to security (onion model) is the only sane approach because any given layer will always have flaws. The notion I get from the article is that security becomes a …

"the primary reason, at the core of it all, the wrong people are in the wrong positions". South Africa in 2020 is a case study for that. Inheriting the most industrialized economy …

reminds me of another one: nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. For me it just pushes the point that every situation is a negotiation.

You're so right - video games shouldn't even have been mentioned. As human ingenuity goes, there's infinite ways to "waste time". I've spent many hours with the family playing Mine…

There's a term for that ..."expert beginner"

Gestapo in the making.

Morality is a human construct. Nature has no morality, only survival matters - by any means. That's why such cruelty (from human moral viewpoint) is found in Nature.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" means: make it work correctly first, and then - if anybody cares - make it fast. Readability/maintainability, then only as needed t…

Many programming languages start out as 'experiments' by their creators, to combine or extend the capabilities and attributes of some prior ones. That seems like a very healthy evo…

Electric Light Orchestra. Music with a futuristic, but mixed pessimistic and bright outlook. And the orchestral contribution makes the backbone of it. If you like Science Fiction (…

There's kinds of authority. "personal authority" can easily work better than "org chart" authority since it usually has respect and trust attached - which no mere org chart can gra…

In Afrikaans - spoken in ZA (south africa) - that is pretty much the actual word :) "voetganger" "voet" - foot/feet "ganger" - someone who moves along using the former noun The Lat…