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> 4. Make questioning it feel wrong. Frame the story so that scepticism looks like moral failure. You antisemite!

Lisp and Prolog never really "vived" nor were they ever really gone/dead. So they can't be revived. They've always been there, in the background, in their niche. As they always wil…

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Surely they will be sanctioning Israel like they sanctioned russia for attacking ukraine? After all aren't Canada and europe self proclaimed beacons of light?

> America and Israel are lawless countries. America is as much a victim of israel as iran is. You act like we have a choice in this matter. We are forced to cut funding for food pr…

> I think we can do without the baity title since most HN readers should know who Cantor and Dedekind are. Edit: okay, maybe not Dedekind. If you think most HN readers would know w…

> > Suddenly, the monstrosity of infinity, long feared by mathematicians, could no longer be relegated to some unreachable part of the number line. It hid within its every crevice.…

> For much of history, this complexity was invisible to Westerners. Northwestern Europeans assumed that their way of doing things, lifelong monogamous marriage sanctified by religi…

> non-programmers began programming without knowing they were Using excel in the traditional sense isn't the same as programming. Unless they were doing some VBA or something like …

> Not to mention all the numerous threats to wipe Israel off the map by Iran, Hez etc. That's a well debunked lie told by zionists for decades. Nobody cares anymore. Besides it's "…

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> It was nitpicky and aggressive, as well as offtopic. What is aggressive about "Math, not Maths. You wouldn't called it Econs 101 would you?"? How is a comment directly about the …

Do what? State my opinions? What exactly is wrong with my comment?

> * Chip design pays better than software in many cases You are comparing the narrowest niche of hardware engineering to the broad software profession overall? > (US and UK include…

> When we realised that in order to live in a society we’d need things like laws, democracy, courts, human rights, and so on. That's odd because the prononents of laws, democracy, …

You would first have to imagine portuguese being the lingua franca of the iberian peninsula. Hard to imagine. Passing that hurdle, then you'd have to imagine portuguese being the l…

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> it understands you intend to wash the car you drive but still suggests not bringing it. Doesn't it actually show it doesn't understand anything? It doesn't understand what a car …

> We are, after all, a couple centuries of civility pained over millions of years of vicious apes. Interesting. When were these magical centuries of civility?

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> It's still absolutely fascinating to me that basically the whole modern tech industry and the economic growth from it rests on the shoulders of a single company Stop getting your…

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If we are talking underrated films he was in, my choice would be Deep Impact.

> For a community that prides itself on "one small tool for a specific purpose," You think this "community" is a tech community? Let alone a unix community? And using a text editor…