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Alternatively, since Simonyi was at PARC, just up the road from Apple, he may have known the story and shared it, which got re-attributed, as happens in the game of telephone.

Related story about Bill Atkinson at Apple, reporting -2000 lines of code, at https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html . Perhaps that's the one you are thinking of…

I nearly always use DDG in noai mode. A couple of hours ago I failed to find information about the origin of 'click piano' - a setting on my electronic piano - so I decided to try …

> With the bicycle the Wright Brothers patented the left-hand thread. I tried to verify that a couple of years ago, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42709428 . It does not s…

So in the country you live in, a shop owner is free to kick out women from his phone store, simply for being a woman. India banned discrimination on the basis of caste back in 1947…

This was a tangent starting with "I find the RealID opposition baffling." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983452 . I oppose Real ID because I don't understand the problem…

There is a tautological issue here - before Real ID everyone had to accept state-issued ids because that's what people had. How does Real ID guarantee (1), (3), or (4) better than …

That still doesn't tell me what problem it is supposed to solve.

From that link, 'All this keeps the game interesting and fun, taking weeks and sometimes months to complete'. Some people in the US take longer than that to get Real ID. Like, elde…

It is called "TSA ConfirmID". https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id "If you are unable to provide the required acceptable ID, such as a passport or REAL ID, you can pay a $45 fee to us…

The major European exception being the UK, which doesn't issue identity cards and somehow manages. (Apparently Andorra doesn't either.) You might consider it part of the Anglospher…

> I’m a strong supporter of the concept that people should pass an evaluation and get a permit to have a child. Of course that, like literacy tests for voting, will never be gamed.…

Okay, so how do you get from 'market-rate housing' to 'luxury apartments'? FWIW, I'm saving up for an apartment. As I understand it, the Vienna model has city-owned housing ("gover…

Bear in mind that those conclusions are for a different student population -- country of course, but also age range: Czech schools: "The new measure, which has been at the center o…

The headline is "Socialists should embrace luxury apartments." Do you think socialists should embrace higher prices for everyone over longer times for everyone? Even without an exp…

I don't feel like paying with my money, I don't feel like paying by giving up my privacy, and I don't feel like paying by training Google reCAPTCHA or giving it my attention. When …

I didn't, as I am not a subscriber. My views are similar to rekabis. Could you perhaps summarize the evidence? I mean, Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism sounds fun and all…

I fundamentally do not understand your advocacy. You started with: 'Am I the only person who thinks its odd that my government (US) thinks its can tell me what time to get up and g…

FWIW, that's existed for a while. Source at https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/master/third_party... with downloadable binary at https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/sqlite3 . %…

> Also unaddressed is how the military will square a program that screens troops for low testosterone with the FDA's stance that testosterone replacement therapy is approved only f…

I've re-read it 5 times. I do not see what I am supposed to be seeing. > Am I the only person who thinks its odd No. Many people have complained. In the TV show "The Bob Newhart Sh…

If everyone follows the same clock, like, now is 12:30pm, across the entire world, then while everyone could also work 9-5, we know that most people like to be awake during dayligh…

You can get up or go to bed whenever you wish. You can say today's date is 27 Messidor Year CCXXXIV if you wish. The problem is when you want to coordinate events between people fo…

Do you not consider Roman Catholicism to be part of the European heritage? I sure do. A lot of Latino Americans and indigenous people are Roman Catholics, so part of European herit…