trelane

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Comment · 47 minutes ago

Ah, back when he still wrote.

Not that I'm bitter or anything

Comment · 52 minutes ago

Surnames or occupations (Tanner, Cooper, etc)

Comment · 57 minutes ago

Surprised Sue wasn't mentioned. I had heard that boys had started being called Sue (sample size of 1, but very prominent).

Comment · 18 days ago

You are extremely unlikely to actually get someone to chat with your earnestly about this on this site. They will get downvoted, flagged, and mobbed by ten other people who want to vent their righteous indignation at your interlocutor.

You will have to know someone personally or read sites that don't just reflect back your existing world view.

Good luck.

Comment · 23 days ago

Of course. Everyone wants the money they have to increase, the amount of services they receive increase or stay the same, and the money they pay to decrease or stay the same.

This isn't something special with taxes.

Comment · 23 days ago

> Is that true and how is this not perpetual serfdom if you can't ever really own a home?

https://phillipslytle.com/a-review-of-new-yorks-response-to-...

Until 2023, some (many?) would sell off your house and pocket the difference, even if it exceeded the tax liability!

Comment · 27 days ago

> You want comprehensive enforcement with reasonable penalities.

> You don't want draconian laws randomly enforced.

This depends entirely on what the goal of the law is.

Comment · 1 month ago

Killing opponents' satellites comes to mind.

Not every target is on the ground.

Comment · 1 month ago

Would be interesting to have, e.g. an interview about this, recorded someolace reputable.

Comment · 1 month ago

Sounds like a Greg Egan novel. I had thought it was one, but it's different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clockwork_Rocket

Comment · 1 month ago

It has sources (see my comment above).

Do you have corroborating sources? I (and others) would be keenly interested in them!

Comment · 1 month ago

Not just. It has the origin as well:

"The new version of TECO quickly became popular at the AI Lab and soon accumulated a large collection of custom macros whose names often ended in MAC or MACS, which stood for macro. Two years later, Guy Steele took on the project of unifying the diverse macros into a single set.[21] Steele and Stallman's finished implementation included facilities for extending and documenting the new macro set.[3] The resulting system was called EMACS, which stood for Editing MACroS or, alternatively, Emacs with MACroS."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs

Comment · 2 months ago

After Adobe's licensing/subscription shenanigans, I would have expected the license to be more salient in folks' minds.

Comment · 2 months ago

I have seen enough atrocious proprietary UOs that I am not convinced your underlying thesis is correct.