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"Less noticeable" are the keywords. Premiums are not paid by employers. They are paid by employees from what would otherwise be part of their salary.

This is what you call a false dichotomy.

It is sketchy, but mainly it's the headline that's misleading. For the 64% number they used all crimes, including immigration. For non-immigration crimes the percent of total is st…

Other species have the ability for tool making, some of it relatively complex. So clearly there are other factors. Language is obviously one of them. The differentiator described h…

In Emacs you have to actively evaluate expressions (i.e., C-x C-e). This IDE apparently will evaluate highlighted expressions without interaction on the user's part. That said, you…

Chicken Scheme is a Scheme variant. It compiles to C. => https://www.call-cc.org/

I think this is the right approach to the problem. It's a question of meaning and bootstrapping a minimal language that's based heavily on metaphor (specifically, the conduit metap…

I hear this alot about Racket as if this is the value proposition and Racket stands alone with these features. Languages like Ruby are routinely used to build DSLs (RSpec, Rails, S…