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I think of it as "The ship foundered on the rocks". Of course I suppose if a fish did the same thing we might have a foundering flounder.

I agree WASM doesn't bring in anything fundamental to this picture that isn't already there with JS. But that is no comfort. In the ancient web world, the site author wrote HTML to…

I think they are doing this with temporary loans. Our Maritime Museum in Sydney had a very good exhibition about the destruction of Pompeii. All the stuff there was on loan from so…

Yes, it's useful for the problems that were around when it was invented and useless for the new problems that have arisen since. I want my old problems back.

> While legacy code is most troublesome, it still will be at maximum only twice as bad resource-wise, than new and pretty code. This reflects an assumption -- perhaps one nurtured …

> _immediately move money to a bank account or you are dead_ So the "bank account" you are refering to is (or is a practically automatic gateway too) one of those "more stable fina…

Which of course means it is not literally true, beause the paper those notes are written on is worth a lot more.

And yet it was print newspapers that had the rule that important stuff must come in he first column inch.

I don't get it. Do you?

> but the people speaking the different dialects don't want to change to the new version. Makes sense that these small Alpine valley cultures want to speak the language their ances…

> What is a reasonable mean? Be reasonable! Just as even interpreted software must eventually appeal to hardware actions to give them meaning, laws must eventually appeal to human-…

Remember, our country founded as a place for storing bad, bad, Britons. In the long run, it doesn't seem to do much harm.

How many people used any internet technology before there was even in Internet? But some people did use email.

> Also 'basically an Asian city' sounds, basically, racist. Presumably, ponzored is from Harvard; we mustn't blame him for his upbringing.

I am no plasma physicist, but the concern I hear about fusion is that whenever we scale a system up we find the plasma is behaving in new ways, resulting in new loss mechanisms. Id…

I expect so. But there is still an interesting point: witch and heretic-burning likely tap into much the same psychology as ancient human sacrifice. Even the rationales overlap: "D…

Yes. The Romans they accepted as inevitable that vast numbers of infants would be killed all the time. The Carthagians would have also had to deal with this reality. Perhaps they d…

The Jews weren't merely fellow Semitic speakers, they were neigubours to the Phoenecians. And rivals. In fact this is a point in favour of the Jews, in that even if such practices …

One of the very few things I know about audio codecs is that they at least implicitly embody a "psychoaccoustic model". The "psycho" is crucial because the human mind is the standa…

> Expecting journalists to have second degrees in law isn't a reasonable standard Who said anything about a second degree?

> it's not clear that my Google Map data is 'mine' Yep, definitately not clear. But that's why it's a good for courts to start thinking about such things so that principles can eme…