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fs_tab··on Austral Programming Language
> designed to be simple enough to be understood by a single person

Interesting that this was mentioned. Are there languages that are not simple enough to be understood by a single person?

fs_tab··on Ukraine Bets on Wind Power, Which Missiles Can’t Damage as Easily
https://archive.is/3J9zG
fs_tab··on Jokes that have made people laugh for thousands of years
A good collection of ancient jokes is the Philogelos (written in 4th century Greece). Here are a couple of gems:

#45. An intellectual during the night ravished his grandmother and for this got a beating from his father. He complained: “You’ve been mounting my mother for a long time, without suffering any consequences from me. And now you’re mad that you found me screwing your mother for the first time ever!”

#69. An intellectual checked in on the parents of a dead classmate. The father was wailing: “O son, you have left me a cripple!” The mother was crying: “O son, you have taken the light from my eyes!” Later, the intellectual suggested to his friends: “If he were guilty of all that, he should have been cremated while still alive.”

#73. The same intellectual said that the tomb of Scribonia was handsome and lavish, but that it had been built on an unhealthy site.

#234. A man with bad breath asked his wife: “Madame, why do you hate me?” And she said in reply: “Because you love me.”

Source: https://diotima-doctafemina.org/translations/greek/45-jokes-...

fs_tab··on Can humans live forever on a single food diet?
Soylent Green would probably be the ideal food since it is guaranteed to contain everything the human metabolism requires.
fs_tab··on Gitlet.js – Git implemented in 1k lines of JavaScript (2015)
Backbone.js comes to mind: https://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html.

Edit: The author of backbone.js has a tool that generates documentation in this style. http://ashkenas.com/docco/

fs_tab··on They're Made Out of Meat (1991)
I think this is a question that only you will be able to answer.
fs_tab··on Forearm artery reveals human evolution continues?
Those are valid points. However, immunization has virtually eradicated entire families of diseases with serious, life-altering side effects. I would argue that the short-term benefits outweigh the potential long-term consequences in this case, especially if we continue to vaccinate children against these diseases.

That being said, I think it's far more likely that genetic conditions and predispositions to disease will be resolved through genetic engineering, not natural selection.

fs_tab··on Forearm artery reveals human evolution continues?
You would want to stratify results by race or ancestry, since this allele is probably more prevalent in specific populations.
fs_tab··on Forearm artery reveals human evolution continues?
If you're interested in the study or its methodology, you can request the paper directly from the authors at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344230933_Recently_...

According to the abstract, there has been a significant (p-value of under 0.001) increase in the prevalence of mid-arm arteries over time, which has been corroborated by multiple studies.

After removing studies that focus specifically on the evolutionary aspect of this change, the p-value is 0.018, which still suggests a correlation.

fs_tab··on Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
You can host websites from a spare computer at home. You can use Cloudflare's free CDN for serving cached responses. If your ISP does not provide static IP addresses, and you wish to use a custom domain then you will need to periodically update your domain's A Record to point to your current public ip (which can be automated).
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