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Why GNU Emacs? 10 years ago

Also the lacking a decent text-editor joke is just that, a joke

well, noone's saying that viper-mode couldn't be improved

Let's Learn GraphQL 11 years ago

that people would defend having to log into a social media account to read a tutorial on a database language made me physically ill

I had to swallow it (just bile)

because things were so awesome back in the day...not

are you trying to credit technological advance to democratic government?

what are you talking about?

from the perspective of drug trade, gangs exist to protect the distribution- that part could be much more decentralized if it were legal

There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

-G. K. Chesterton

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." -Thomas Sowell

I live in the US since 8 years and still misunderstood it.

in particular it's hard to tell whether you mean 'since I were eight years old' vs 'for a span of eight years'

also, a native speaker would probably use tense such as "I have lived", so casually, "I've lived in the US for 8 years and still misunderstood it."

and noone ever uses whom, but you probably used it correctly

ps you typoed 'possibly be' and 'it'