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I don't think you're being fair to Chris Penner. He ends his blog post with: "It may take me another 5 years to finally finish it, but at some point we'll continue this journey and explore how we can sequence effects using the hierarchy of Category classes instead." Emphasis by me.

So while it is true, that what he has described so far is not sufficiently powerful for normal programs, he has clearly stated that there are more abstractions between Applicative and Monad to explore than what he has presented so far.

What LaTeX package does one use to get the "back" link at the end of footnotes like the linked PDF exhibits?

A minimal general purpose syntax for what?

I followed the link and read the page, but I’m still not sure what the point is!

You can't copyright short phrases and slogans like "bullshit-free".

Thank you, you are correct.

Since there is no explanatory text, this seems to be more of a testing environment than a primer.

It appears Jeff Bezos has partially doxed Howard Dylan. In the email he published he removed Dylan's phone number and email address, but the image included, probably as Dylan's signature, clearly shows his phone number and email address.

Taler is free in the sense of libre software, but it is not a free payment system. In their demo they added a small transaction fee. However, because it is not a crypto currency they can greatly reduce the transaction fees.

No, because it is not racist.

The author has lived in Japan and studied Japanese for a long time. If you read some of his other posts for context you will see that he deeply admires and loves the Japanese people and their culture.

This article appears to me to be a cathartic rant about Japanese being so difficult to learn that even many Japanese don't master their own language. I lived in Japan for about 3 years and I can corroborate that Japanese people struggle with their own language. For example, the development of word processing has made the problem even worse. When Japanese people consistently use computers for writing they call themselves "Wa-pu-ro baka" (translation "word processing idiot") because they quickly forget how to write kanji by hand.

Actually it is two rants in one. The first rant is about how college level educational standards are very different in the U.S. and Japan. Although I never attended university in Japan, I've met many Japanese college students and their stories corroborate the author's claims of ridiculously easy grading standards.