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And at a meta level, every medium of communication shapes its receiver as well (think about the dumbing down effect of TV vs a book).

This is like "Picture Cook: See, Make, Eat": https://www.amazon.com/Picture-Cook-Katie-Shelly/dp/16460416...

QRT?

>The UK system takes the national insurance contributions of workers but doesn’t invest them in anything on behalf of the individual. So despite decades of payments you technically…

That's because they know their kids will be set no matter what they do in life.

But they might be pushing in the wrong direction.

The opposite - the incumbent party is destroying America.

Is this like some scale-independent version of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?

There are definite costs to this in terms of continued US taxation as an expat, especially if there isn't a tax treaty in place.

Who's legally responsible once someone's agent decides to SWAT someone else because they got into an argument with that person's agent?

Those poor people voted for something for which they were explicitly mislead. The results of Brexit have in no ways made their lives better.

Binding people to a shared worldview due to a fear of an unsuccessful afterlife?

As someone coming back to C++ after more than a decade away, do you have any recommended resources on C++20 or open source projects you've seen that utilize the language this way?

Would you have gone to the streets for it?

He's been talking about doing it since he was inaugurated.

Don't be so sure of that. Network effects are still subject to tipping points.

The economic benefits are clear - what social costs are you taking about?

In what other country does a jail sentence mean you get sent to another country to serve the sentence? (Except maybe the US now with detained immigrants)

Did you study chemical engineering knowing it's applicability to software engineering? Your observation is interesting because early ideas in object oriented design were likewise i…

Folk.computer ( https://folk.computer ) is an open source version of DL-like system, and even though the code uses TCL it's pretty easy to reimplement any bits you see in the Dynam…

I think you and the GP are probably talking about different scale orders of magnitude.

Hi Don, do you know if this ever happened (I think it's from the 2007 email - but tough to say for sure given above formatting)? > (BTW, Etoys is kind of an OO event-driven Logo (n…

From a purely humanity-improving perspective this lack of dissemination is quite sad. > No one writes it down because it sort of feels wrong to claim second-hand knowledge of unkno…

I love histogram sliders! I think they were originally developed by Chris Ahlberg in Ben Shneiderman's group, and were later commercialized in Spotfire (I have yet to see them in a…