Because the bottom line in life is power, not laws or beliefs.

The government of Egypt is actively blocking its population from communicating. There is no such thing as hyperbole in this context.

In the study I heard about from a family member it correlates strongly up to a threshold, say $90,000 for a family of 3-4 living in the midwest (ex-Chicago, etc.), but thereafter increasing income doesn't increase happiness (and possibly erodes it).

Yes, obviously having a very low income would come with worries, but above that, as you said, there's not much correlation...

Yes, what has been found is that anything below $60,000 is strongly correlated with unhappiness, but it flattens out above 60 annually. This was in a TED talk, probably one by Hans Rosling.

How about, "in comparison to software development, 'programming' is easy"?

Word. Further, in the same direction: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." (attributed to Edison) It's profoundly true of the world that nothing is wasted. Remember that no success or discovery is an accident. It is the result of time invested in the process.

To me applied minimalism in whatever endeavor just means finding the simplest possible thing that works. I think most of us can see the value in that.

The wording is a bit too strong, but I take it to mean that the 21st century most closely resembles the 12th. Not exactly the same, but most similar among centuries.

He doesnt really address the obvious retort it most resembles the 20th century.

I will upvote this thing all day (figuratively speaking of course). Going through this was a big level-up for me.

> Going through this was a big level-up for me.

That's a very nice way of putting it. I too feel a lot more confident about an entire class of problems thanks to HTDP. The only problem I have with the book is that the generative recursion stuff is not as well done as the structural recursion portions, but I guess that could be because generative recursion portions are inherently more creativity requiring/difficult than the structural portions. Anyway, that portion is being revamped for 2e so I'm looking forward to relearning it.

I didn't realize it was being revamped. I had to skip some of the algorithm parts for lack of math (which I'm also studying). IME Part V was by far the hardest part of the book. I often found the language confusing and had to puzzle things out slowly that once I understood them, it seemed they could be more simply put. (Of course in order for that criticism to be useful I would have to develop it and provide details.) There seems to be a lot of value placed on abstraction, to the point that it's sometimes hard to follow. I don't know if it's just me or if it's just a result of the authors being so darn smart.

Yes the intention was that the Paperwork Reduction Act section requires an entire page while utilizing about 10% of it. I didn't realize the scribd link was present, let alone not funny. I pasted in the link from uscis.gov.

On the way out of the house this morning I heard that "the Federal Government will continue to operate until March".