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Recursion is natural and easy to understand when the argument of the function is a recursive data structure, and the cases are patterns on the constructors. These are natural and u…

Even if the Moore's law is not dead, single-thread performance and clock frequency have plateaued 10 years ago. This is the key factor. Because of heating even if you squeeze more …

"The consumption of electricity in everyday life was limited (it was forbidden to use a refrigerator during the winter, and the use of a vacuum cleaner was banned all year round), …

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A clear exposition of an obscure and hard to understand result is lack of 'respect for readers' time'? How so?

> 3. While the size of any one conference has to be fixed, tech has made it infinitely easier to create new conferences and journals with other focus areas. They may not start with…

Journals can still do curation of the stuff that's on preprint archives. Some already do. It's a lot less friction than the current model.

Maybe not so slow.

> For example, in Sri Lanka, there is no way for someone to accept payments or send money through PayPal or Stripe. However, people will be able to send money through the blockchai…

Maybe Google should start a new thing, a "search engine", which actually searches (rather then guess, anticipate, and interpret).

10 hrs waiting (i.e. catching up on email and social media, eating or shopping) for 4k? Does this seem reasonable to you?

At the airport I don't merely sit and wait. I catch up on email and paperwork, maybe start watching a movie. It's not wasted time so I don't mind being there 30 mins extra for safe…

If you need to flip your USB A connector three times before pushing it into the port you are not pushing hard enough.

> Smart contracts offer revolutionary new to transact gloablly. They certainly do that.

You don't seem to understand what the previous poster said: all of this can be achieved with a database that allows some open access. You don't need a consensus protocol on a distr…

If you were not constrained by material considerations and were to commission the design of a new mainstream general-purpose programming language what new technical feature would i…

Much like mixing garbage into food. You get garbage, not food.

The article makes some specific points, which you fail to address. Your objection is a generic "never mind that, just give it more time". You can do better.

You can, however, greatly reduce it. That would be good enough.

This is so true, yet so totally besides the point.