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Comment · 1 year ago
What about people who aren't interested in autocratic racists who throw out the nazi salute?
Comment · 1 year ago
You are the one who is claiming that they've saved $1.82 Billion dolars by posting some random website that thinks illegally destroying a federal agency is fiscally responsible.
Comment · 1 year ago
tl;dr No. If this were permitted, then a president would just be a dictator.

And he didn't even appoint Musk. Musk isn't head of any government department. He's just a random guy who has a ton of money.

Comment · 1 year ago
You can't claim to have "saved" money by destroying programs funded by congress that you have no authority to destroy.

Especially when the long term costs of destroying those programs are going to be enormous.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Replying here to the comment which was removed:

You can and should talk about the biological and social origins of homosexuality if it interests you. But, you should avoid doing it in a way that's insulting.

I would also suggest, since it's a sensitive topic affecting people that have been persecuted, making sure the comments are thoughtful and non-reductionist.

For people who'd prefer to be cavalier about the subject though, there's not lack of spaces on the internet to do so.

Comment · 2 years ago
Hardly taboo. Casual homophobic comments like these are all over the internet.

If you have some interesting but edgy thoughts about people's ... lifestyle, try posting something thoughtful instead of this.

Comment · 4 years ago
(disclaimer, I work at Wolfram Research)

I'd love more tools for using TeX and markdown. There are a few but they're not really given as a first choice anywhere.

About MathML... I mean I'm also not a fan. I'm not sure anyone really is. I've been cursed to work with it in some legacy pages. I love using mathjax. I'm not familiar at all with the two people who from the company who worked on it or that project. But I think it's going a bit far to think that MathML was nefarious corporate plot to manipulate the W3C. (0) MathML doesn't interoperate with WolframLanguage in any particularly great or exclusive way. (1) MathML makes more sense for the time period it was introduced than it does now. Mathjax is technology I don't think people foresaw at the time (Reparsing the DOM and injecting some kind of formatted math notation?!) People really thought math notation would need to be expressed in an XML like format. The other option at the time afaik was static images you'd generate from LaTeX and insert into your document. (2) TeX is a language for typesetting math in a paper and people thought we'd need something that went deeper, representing something closer to the intended semantics of the notation. This was probably a mistake.

Afaik MathML didn't make it harder for people to use TeX on the web.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Oh. Well still, kudos to you for spelling Wolfram|Alpha correctly with the vertical bar :)
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm someone who occasionally works on Wolfram|Alpha and also a big fan of the account. Glad to see you're still going. Some of your examples have made me think really hard about ontological and organizational problems I hadn't yet considered.
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago

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