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How the author failed to explain this abbreviation is beyond me. Who in their 50s doesn't know that you spell out important concepts and key terms, then shorten them in parentheses?


Maybe it didn't occur to him that people wouldn't know what it is. If you were writing an article about programming, would you explain what BASIC stands for?


No of course not, everyone knows it stands for 'Badgers Are Super Intelligent Creatures'.

:)

(Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code... which now I type it out, obviously cheats. From here on, it shall be known as BAPSIC.)


STFU.


Please comment civilly and substantively on HN or not at all.


It doesn't work for me, link in result still paywalled.


Make sure your browser sends a Referer header?


And maybe right-click the link and select "Open link in incognito window" to make sure the site doesn't know if you've visited them before or not.


and put these lines in your /etc/hosts...


He also haven't looked into the strong philosophical arguments for BI, dating back to Paine in the 18th century. Justice and freedom are keys to all of these arguments, e. g. that of Van Parijs, where if one looks at work as a fundamental resource, you should be free to take or not take a job.

There's so much literature on this—why not look into it?


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