infinite8s

Smalltalk didn't start until 1971/2 (Alan Kay started at Xerox in early 1971 as a consultant and then joined as a full time member). It's covered in the HOPL article above

That's the difference between first-hand evidence and vibe-based feelings/arguments.

The collapse of Syria was partly due to an extended drought causing famine. A lot of the current xenophobia in Europe is due to the small amount of refugees escaping the effects of this famine and subsequent civil war.

And at a meta level, every medium of communication shapes its receiver as well (think about the dumbing down effect of TV vs a book).

QRT?

>The UK system takes the national insurance contributions of workers but doesn’t invest them in anything on behalf of the individual. So despite decades of payments you technically have nothing at the end and survive on the goodwill of the government and current taxpayers. That works right now because of the population pyramid.

That's how Social Security works in the United States as well.

That's because they know their kids will be set no matter what they do in life.

But they might be pushing in the wrong direction.

The opposite - the incumbent party is destroying America.

Is this like some scale-independent version of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?

There are definite costs to this in terms of continued US taxation as an expat, especially if there isn't a tax treaty in place.

Who's legally responsible once someone's agent decides to SWAT someone else because they got into an argument with that person's agent?

Those poor people voted for something for which they were explicitly mislead. The results of Brexit have in no ways made their lives better.