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According to the article, Norman influence led to double letters being used to better mark out sounds, which achieves the same as diacritics. It made English mostly good enough (fa…

Yes.

I find the power asymmetry is in my favour. I give money to the bookmaker or I don't. If I don't, then the bookmaker is powerless as regards my money. If I do, then I also gain som…

I think you are right that most people who want to ban such activities want to go back to the former situation where people could only bet on sports with friends. Their position is…

I don't want to stop those who enjoy it from enjoying it for the sake of those whose decision making doesn't interact well with its legalisation. I think others care more about pre…

A closed system makes long-term support easier.

Everyone I know who had one (okay, that's not many people...) loved it.

I've never heard of asking vs guessing culture before and don't know much about them, but, based on the article, I'd say guessing looks more transactional. It uses a shared history…

A team I was on hired someone because I dug up an emulator he had written in the past (I think it was of some Nintendo console). I took a quick look at it, showed it to the other d…

If it does end, Amazon gift vouchers? What would be a better substitute?

If the tech is so dangerous that a closed market is necessary, then maybe it should be nationalised.

If there was a proxy service that acted as an ip mask, and there was a list of the ip addresses of such masking proxies, then could EU customers using such services solve the issue…

He’s worked with React and Svelte. He didn’t think he could get it done in time with React. How do you know he is wrong?

He said that he couldn't have met the deadline without Svelte.

I talk about political matters for ideas, education, and stimulation (mine and the other person's), rather than to beat them into taking on my position. I'd certainly walk away fro…

I wonder how difficult it will be to apply the filter to human generated content.

But they do, so it is probably best to include a short note stating the purpose of the desired conversation. This will also help prime many people, and thereby improve the conversa…

Ideally, I'd rotate it between the countries that have a historical tie. I think that is India, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and the U.K.. That would allow all the communities with…

Does it have to go to any country? Duleep Singh was the owner, when the British took it. Who is his legal heir?

What kinds of ethical problems do teams suffer in your experience?

I enjoyed this. Thank you.

So it is an open that has had international organisation layered on top. That does make more sense, in terms of how it got to where it is. Another possibililty would be to relax th…

The principle of open contest* avoids the problem you cite. Such a problem is inherent to international competition*. The mixture of limited open competition (multiple entries per …

Restrict each country to one competitor.

You've learned to tell apart the meaningful from the meaningless. You've done this by the age of twenty three. Your time was only wasted if you don't take advantage of this excelle…